Another kind of buddy

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Wed Jun 13 20:22:34 UTC 2007


We all want to know:

  Just whom do you use it to?

  JL;

Scot LaFaive <spiderrmonkey at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Any even safer than "sweet tits," though I don't know how common that is.
I've heard it (and used it for years), and it is also at Urban Dictionary,
for whatever small amount of worth that is.

Scot LaFaive


>From: Charles Doyle
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>Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:30:02 -0400
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>"Ma'am" or "Miss" is probably safer than "Baby" or "Hot Stuff."
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>--Charlie
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>---- Original message ----
> >Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:18:08 -0400
> >From: Mark Mandel
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>To a woman I tend to use "ma'am" or "Miss".
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> >-- Mark
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