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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 11:26:10 MST
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- From: Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Questions
- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:26:34 +0100 from <torkel@SICS.SE>
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- On Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:26:34 +0100 <torkel@SICS.SE> said:
- > What are the Maryknolls?
-
- some sort of priests...
-
- > What delicacy do we find if we open a box of milky ways?
-
- Milky Way is a brand of candybar.
-
- > Going by car from Louisiana to New Mexico via Texas, which area would
- > "the Panhandle" refer to?
-
- the panhandle of texas...that part sticking up on the top....next to
- the panhandle of oklahoma.....but well south of the panhandle of nebraska.
-
- > "Indians in heel-worn cowboy boots": what does "heel-worn" mean here?
-
- that the heels are worn down at the back (or side if they walk
- bowlegged)...the boots are old and well used.
-
- > "For some reason they make me think of people cornholing each other":
- > people doing what to each other?
-
- buttfucking
-
- > "A cop on the pad": a corrupt cop?
-
- yup. the pad is a list of the cops and how much to pay them for
- whatever protection/looking the other way/etc they are giving.
- the crook has a pad of paper in his pocket, at least int he literal
- original sense.
-
- > "The three moles by the corner of her mouth were the size of BBs":
- > what are BBs?
-
- a size of shot....like shoots out of a BB gun....an air rifle....
-
- > "You never could resist mashing on a guy's oysters": what, if anything,
- > does this idiom convey to you?
-
- his oysters undoubtedly means his balls, testicles....
-
- > Vick's VapoRub: what revolting product is this?
-
- a salve to rub on your chest when you have a cold...smells like
- menthol or something....makes your skin feel warm and gives off the
- smelly vapors that supposedly relieve your cold.
-
- dan the cyclops of newmexico (well, for seven years)
-