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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 12:00:58 +1000
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- >> 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)
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- The centre is nougat in the Aus version.
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- >> "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.
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- That's what I thought it meant.
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- Carolyn
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