RE "Shoot beaver"?

[Dan Goncharoff]

It's not in the script.
DanG

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 8:34 AM -0500 11/10/10, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>Former Yankee pitcher Jim Bouton achieved a _success de scandale_ in 1969-70
>>when he reported in his memoir, _Ball Four_, that certain Yankee greats
>>would prowl under the stands trying to "shoot beaver."
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>>HDAS has 1974 for female "shooters," 1969 for the male kind.
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>>JL
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> I associate it with the scene in "Basic Instinct", a movie about 20
> years old (and hence a classic of the silver screen) in which murder
> suspect Sharon Stone, in a short white dress, uncrosses her legs
> across from her interrogator Michael Douglas.  Can't recall if she
> was described as shooting beaver at the time, or only afterward.
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> LH
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>>  On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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>>>  It is my impression that the term "shooting beaver" could also (by a sort
>>>  of projection?) refer to the lascivious glimpsing of accidentally exposed
>>>  female crotches ("beavers")--as when a woman is seen sitting carelessly in a
>>>  dress or skirt.  A common regional variant (in eastern Texas in the 1960s)
>>>  was "shooting squirrel."
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>>>  --Charlie
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>>>  Exposing their genitals. Anterior version of mooning. In my experience.
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>>>  Eric
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>>>  On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>  > Does anyone know the slang-meaning of this?
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>>>  .....the girls in her class "shooting beaver" at the boys.
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>>>  --
>>>  -Wilson
>>>  =96=96=96
>>>  All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"=96=96a strange complaint to
>>>  come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>>>  =96Mark Twain
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