[Ads-l] obscene slang on TV

[Jonathan Lighter]

First of all, everything  is now a double entendre.  Given that, I suspect
that "wax job" is now at least a triple. (See Urban Dictionary.)

JL

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 4:34 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> >> FWIW, ZZ Top released the song "Pearl Necklace" in 1981.
>
> > In addition, there was the double-entendre, "A String of Pearls,"
> released
> > by Glenn Miller in 1941. It reached no.1 on Billboard.
>
> You've got a dirty mind <G>.
> Seriously, I looked over the lyrics and don't see anything about this song
> to think
> it is anything other than a literal "string of pearls".
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