Re: [ADS-L] when "i ntercourse" got funny

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Such things would be considered boners in late-20th-century usage. But one
could not have called them that, either.

In a message dated 9/28/06 9:02:30 AM, blemay0 at MCHSI.COM writes:


>
> > Or Charles Dickens, as in this now-unfortunate line from
> > _David Copperfield_:
> >
> > "The heartiness of the ejaculation startled Mr. Dick
> > exceedingly; and me, too, if I am to tell the truth."
> > http://www.bartleby.com/307/13.html
>
> ...or the Three Stooges with this line from "Uncivil War Birds - 1946"
>

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