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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: Questions
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 22:25:24 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Dec29.152340.14853@eff.org> <9212291326.AA10628@lludd.sics.se>
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- In a previous article, rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis) says:
-
- >In article <9212291326.AA10628@lludd.sics.se> torkel@SICS.SE writes:
- >
- >> What delicacy do we find if we open a box of milky ways?
- >
- > Yummy little candybars.
- Yup - chocolate on the outside, and carmel with some sort of whipped malt-
- flavoured stuff on the inside.
- >
- >> Going by car from Louisiana to New Mexico via Texas, which area would
- >> "the Panhandle" refer to?
- > I think the panhandle is in Texas. One of the tenetters
- >should be able to clear this up. Isn't it particularly desolate?
- >
- It's certainly out there - like one of the Tenetters said, it's the part
- of Texas that kinda sticks up and out, like the handle on a pan.:-)
-
- >> "Blowing up a VC nurse in a spider hole": what is a spider hole?
- >
- > Sounds like Vietnam terminology for a foxhole to me.
- More likely a tunnel - the Viet Cong were famous for digging those, all over
- the place. Sounds like the grunt in question was a tunnel rat - and maybe
- tossed some gelginite down the hole? Any Viet Vets out there have the real
- answer?
- >
- >> "For some reason they make me think of people cornholing each other":
- >> people doing what to each other?
- >
- > Euphenism for fucking?
- The anal kind.:-)
- >
- >> "A cop on the pad": a corrupt cop?
- >
- > Hmm. Context would be important here... the only other
- >alternative would be that it's similar to the slang "being on the
- >rag." In other words, cranky cuz the cop has his/her period. (Where
- >period is just slang for being in a pissy mood and doesn't have much
- >to do with biological functions).
- >
- In the book, though, I think it means taking bribes, most likely cash.
-
- >> "The three moles by the corner of her mouth were the size of BBs":
- >> what are BBs?
- > Tiny round bullets the size of a pea used in toy BB guns.
- >They're usually made of steel or copper. It takes genious to actually
- >kill anything with a BB gun, but the the buggers sting and will leave
- >a respectable bruise if you are hit by one. It's a starter gun for
- >young boys.
- >
- The guns are fired with either compressed air or CO2.
- >
- >> Vick's VapoRub: what revolting product is this?
- > It's a mentholated rub for relieving stuffiness due to colds.
- >It has a petroleum jelly base, so it is kind of slimey and unpleasant
- >when you rub it on your chest or under your nose, so it is mostly
- >inflicted on kids and adults seldom use it on themselves. It works
- >pretty good.
- >
- It's kind of a combination of menthol and grease.:-( I've heard that it also
- can substitute for Ben-Gay [a rub for sore muscles] in a pinch. It would
- have to be a mighty big pinch to get me to use the stuff.:-)
- >
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