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Noam Avnery
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:02 pm
Post subject: Re: Sweetest tabu (?) |
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Thanks for both replies.
Why I ask you ask? Well, I saw "The Simpsons" episode titled "The
Sweetest Apu" and I wanted to know if it's a pun, refering to
"sweetest tabu".
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Mark Brader
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:02 pm
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Mark Brader:
| Quote: | I dunno, but this made me think of a comic poem whose last line was
"her little *" (to be pronounced "her little asterisk"). ...
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Ben Zimmer:
| Quote: | Some variations were covered earlier this year ...
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Thanks, I *knew* I'd seen it before!
| Quote: | in a thread initiated by, uh, Mark Brader ...
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Look again. Gavin Au initiated the thread with message
<c2c4a5$29md$1@news.hgc.com.hk>.
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Mark Brader, Toronto "Yet Another Wonderful Novelty -- YAWN!"
msb@vex.net -- Liam Quin |
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Mervyn Doobov
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 6:00 pm
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Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote in
news:419C5033.514D38A3@midway.uchicago.edu:
| Quote: | Mark Brader wrote:
Don Groves:
I've been struggling to recall an old limerick, the last line
of which is, "she only has her asterisk."
I dunno, but this made me think of a comic poem whose last line
was "her little *" (to be pronounced "her little asterisk").
That's not enough syllables for a limerick's last line, so I'm
thinking it's a different poem. Anyway, I googled for the phrase
-- using "asterisk", necessarily, because "*" in a google phrase
search matches any one word.
I didn't find the poem, but I think I just learned a new
euphemism.
Some variations were covered earlier this year in a thread
initiated by, uh, Mark Brader:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=968d7992b1e3da0a>.
Pretty Mary bought some skates
Upon the ice to frisk
Wasn't she a silly girl
Her little * ?
Mary had an aeroplane
Around the world she'd whisk.
Wasn't she a silly girl
Her little * ?
Little Mary took her skis
Upon the snow to frisk.
Wasn't she a silly girl
Her little * ?
And Skitt provided a limerick of his own creation:
There once was a soldier named Fisk
Who said, when the fighting got brisk,
"I'm sorry to say
that I can not stay --
I've got only one *"
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Mary had a little lamb,
With which she used to frisk,
Wasn't she a silly girl,
Her little *.
Of course, this took me, an Australian, a little while to figure out.
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Mervyn Doobov,
Jerusalem, Israel.
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Sara Lorimer
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 6:01 pm
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Noam Avnery <dnoam@il.ibm.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Thanks for both replies.
Why I ask you ask? Well, I saw "The Simpsons" episode titled "The
Sweetest Apu" and I wanted to know if it's a pun, refering to
"sweetest tabu".
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It's probably a reference to that awful song, "Sweetest Taboo," by that
annoying singer, Sade.
--
SML
with apologies for any resulting STS |
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raymond o'hara
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:00 am
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"Bill Bonde ( ``And the Lamb lies down on Broadway'' )"
<stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote in message
news:419C3D4A.3CB33EE6@backpacker.com...
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raymond o'hara wrote:
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I heard Clinton buried a time capsule at his new presidental library
sized like an overseas shipping container filled with stuff he didn't
want anyone to find till long after his death, the real deed to
Whitewater, the envelope for the Tyson Foods chicken payoffs, the real
gun he used to whack Foster, the keys to the Exocet missile he took
Ron
Brown out with, copies of another few thousand illegally acquired FBI
files on his enemies, tickets to Tahiti from the White House Travel
Office, a few more soiled dresses, a couple of cases of well chewed
Cuban cigars, and the unabridged version of his autobiography. That
last
one was touch and go just getting the bugger in.
Yo buddy, the Exocet is an anti-ship missle not a sam and the U.Sdoes
not
use exocets anyway.
I expect that you took the rest of the paragraph seriously as well.
Hello: None of it is serious. The whole thing is a joke culminating in
me making fun of Clinton's verbose style. Of course you probably didn't
notice any of that.
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No I didn't , but let's be consistant in artfacts , he'd use a stinger. |
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raymond o'hara
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:00 am
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"Jess Askin" <nospam@dontbother.net> wrote in message
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"Mark Brader" <msb@vex.net> wrote in message
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Don Groves:
I've been struggling to recall an old limerick, the last line of
which is, "she only has her asterisk."
I dunno, but this made me think of a comic poem whose last line was
"her little *" (to be pronounced "her little asterisk"). That's not
enough syllables for a limerick's last line, so I'm thinking it's a
different poem. Anyway, I googled for the phrase -- using "asterisk",
necessarily, because "*" in a google phrase search matches any one word.
No, it's Nathan Hale: My only regret is that I have but one * for my
country.
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Do you think you could make a joke when they're about to hang you? |
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don groves
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:02 am
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In article <Mjcnd.50653$V41.49226@attbi_s52>, raymond o'hara at
reoh@comcast.net exposited:
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"Jess Askin" <nospam@dontbother.net> wrote in message
news:cnheu3$ads$1@news.netins.net...
"Mark Brader" <msb@vex.net> wrote in message
news:10podiknci3jc7c@corp.supernews.com...
Don Groves:
I've been struggling to recall an old limerick, the last line of
which is, "she only has her asterisk."
I dunno, but this made me think of a comic poem whose last line was
"her little *" (to be pronounced "her little asterisk"). That's not
enough syllables for a limerick's last line, so I'm thinking it's a
different poem. Anyway, I googled for the phrase -- using "asterisk",
necessarily, because "*" in a google phrase search matches any one word.
No, it's Nathan Hale: My only regret is that I have but one * for my
country.
Do you think you could make a joke when they're about to hang you?
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Reminds me of my favorite "Wizard of Id" strip:
Panel 1 -- Prisoner on gallows with rope around neck. King tells
him he's been pardoned.
Panel 2 -- Prisoner says, "No noose is good noose!"
Panel 3 -- King says, "Hang him!"
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dg (domain=ccwebster) |
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Reinhold (Rey) Aman
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:02 pm
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Sara "Muffy" Lorimer wrote:
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| Quote: | It's probably a reference to that awful song, "Sweetest Taboo,"
by that annoying singer, Sade.
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Envy, pure catty envy! Sade not only sings enchantingly but is also one
of the most beautiful mulatto chicks alive.
--
Reinhold (Rey) Aman, Philologist
and
President, The László Löwenstein Fan Club |
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John Varela
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| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 6:06 am
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:03:13 UTC, Robert Lieblich
<Robert.Lieblich@Verizon.net> wrote:
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Sourest license
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So, Liebs, are you back or what?
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John Varela
(Trade "OLD" lamps for "NEW" for email.)
I apologize for munging the address but the spam was too much. |
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Jim Ward
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| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 6:06 am
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:39:02 -0800, "Bill Bonde ( ``And the Lamb lies
down on Broadway'' )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
| Quote: | It's in a song lyric by Sade. See if you can figure out what she's
talking about, probably something they'd arrest you for in Texas:
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I would've guessed "Les Nubians" (who knew about Sade?). |
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