..happy endings..

[Catherine Aman]

in other words, happy nerve endings

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> From:         Dave Wilton
> Reply To:     American Dialect Society
> Sent:         Wednesday, August 7, 2002 2:50 PM
> To:   ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      Re: ..happy endings..
>
> > At 12:47 PM -0400 8/7/02, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
> > >I remember hearing this type of "massage" euphemized as "a
> > >local [massage]" in the 1960's. E.g.: "I don't give locals,
> > >and even if I did it would cost you twenty dollars extra."
> > >
> > Hmmm..."local" as opposed to "global" or to "express", I wonder?  I
> > kind of like the latter conceit:  the local, unlike the express,
> > stops at all the stations and takes a little more time.
>
> I assumed it was meant to be localized to a specific region of the
> anatomy,
> much like a "local anesthetic," albeit with the opposite physiological
> response.
>
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