More on "moist"

[Wilson Gray]

And I'm thinking that you are correct, sir. For some reason, I can
never keep "Wings," "Airport," and "Airplane" separate. So, I just
grabbed the first one that came to mind.

Thank you, Bill..

-Wilson

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Bill Palmer<w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> I'm thinking the name of the series was "Wings"
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> Bill Palmer
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>> Speaking of "flying," does anyone else remember the TV sitcom,
>> Airport? Because of unfortunate circumstances, Lowell, the mechanic,
>> becomes a roommate of the brothers, the pilots, and, in essence,
>> becomes their house mother, fixing them bag lunches. As they open
>> their lunch bags, a brief interchange something like following occurs:
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>> A. Look! In the bottom of the bag!
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>> B. A _moist_ towlette!
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>> -Wilson
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>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Joel S. Berson<Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>>> At 8/10/2009 12:34 PM, Alison Murie wrote:
>>>>I was perhaps stretching things to attribute the actual expression
>>>>"moist panties" to Erica Jong.  (Chances are, no panties were
>>>>involved!)  What I was thinking was that the wetness of female lust,
>>>>which does figure in Jong's book,  might have been embarrassing enough
>>>>to many women that  "moistness"
>>>>itself could by association become offensive.   Just a WAG.
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>>> Perhaps not so WAG.  I didn't mention in my previous post that
>>> Googling books for <"fear of flying" moist> also brings up other
>>> authors who seem to associate her title with "most".  Although from
>>> that limited search I don't know how closely -- they might not be on
>>> the same page.
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>>> Joel
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-Wilson
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to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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