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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:52:00 EST
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- From: gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Questions
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- OH GREAT, I know some of these, being as I am from TEXAS:
-
- > What delicacy do we find if we open a box of milky ways?
- .
- Milky Ways are candy bars -- have sort of gooey centers covered in
- chocolate (the center is nougat, I think)
- >
- > Going by car from Louisiana to New Mexico via Texas, which area would
- > "the Panhandle" refer to?
- >
- From Louisiana, one would go through either Dallas or Houston, then up
- toward Lubbock and Amarillo, which are in the "Panhandle", the part of
- Texas that sticks up.... just before Lubbock, you go up on the
- "Cap Rock", a very sudden rise to a plateau.
- .
- > "For some reason they make me think of people cornholing each other":
- > people doing what to each other?
- >
- "Cornhole" means to do anal intercourse, as in the old joke about
- the Indian (Native American) maiden who was offering her sexual favors
- to some guy. When he tried to pay her in corn, she turned over, saying
- "Front hole money hole, back hole corn hole".... (Cant believe I just
- told that awful joke.... Well, it's holiday time....)
- .
- >
- > "The three moles by the corner of her mouth were the size of BBs":
- > what are BBs?
- >
- BBs are tiny shot that go in air guns, used for killing little birds,
- mainly by adolescent boys.
- .
- > "You never could resist mashing on a guy's oysters": what, if anything,
- > does this idiom convey to you?
- >
- The oysters must be the testicles.... "to mash" often refers to
- making sexual advances. A "masher" is a guy who comes on real strong
- to an unwilling partner.
- .
- > Vick's VapoRub: what revolting product is this?
- >
- A mentholated salve for smearing on the chest when one has a cold.
- Smells very strong.
- .
- > Lum 'n' Abner land: what is the reference?
- .
- Radio comedy team from the 50's... they were funny, dumb country
- guys.
- >
- --ggs
-