"b/w"

[Bruce Dykes]

-----Original Message-----
From: RonButters at AOL.COM <RonButters at AOL.COM>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Monday, April 10, 2000 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: "b/w"


>The 1960s gossip columnist Earl Wilson used to refer in print to his wife
as
>"the b.w."--I never knew why.

If it's his second wife (or if he's a polygamist), it could stand for
'better wife'...

bkd