"Stinky pinky"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 29, 2004, at 9:44 AM, Bill Mullins follows up on other glossings
of "stinky pinky":

> I believe in the movie "Dazed and Confused" (a really good look at
> underachiever high school life in the late 1970's, from 1993), the
> character
> Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey) uses the phrase.
>
> Do a Google search for "one in the pink, one in the stink" for more
> info
> than you really wanted.  See also "one in the coot and one in the
> boot".

i'm sure that this was not the sense intended on the Jerry Springer
show, but there is a non-sexual sense of the term: the name of kind of
word play, in which the main player defines something that is named by
a two-word rhyming expression, and the other participants try to guess
it.  if the rhyming words have one syllable each, it's a Stink Pink; if
two, a Stinky Pinky; if three, a Stinkety Pinkety; if four, a
Gestinkety Gepinkety.

a Stinkety Pinkety from long ago: what do you call a coaster underneath
a glass of vermouth?

[scroll]















[scroll]

a Noilly Prat doily mat.

yes, it all seems so absurdly innocent.

arnold