The ultimate "you guys"

Alice Faber faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU
Sun Jul 15 19:01:58 UTC 2012


 From a Great Lakes State Craigslist M-looking for-F personal listing,
linked to for purposes of mockery on one of my forums,

"If these things are to your enticement, and maybe give you the lady
tingles, then let's roll, you guys."

It's not just that "you guys" here has exclusively female reference, it
has an odd distributive meaning.

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