Female Genitalia
Gregory {Greg} Downing
gd2 at IS2.NYU.EDU
Wed Sep 27 17:37:52 UTC 2000
At 10:56 PM 9/26/2000 -0400, Bill Smith wrote:
>I have encountered that twice, in both instances
>from an African-American woman reporting her grandmother's instructions for
>bathing: "Wash as far as possible, and then wash possible." Does it occur
>in any other context?
>
An example from fiction -- Joyce, _Ulysses_ (1922; passage composed 1921),
from a 33-y.-o. woman's thoughts in 1904 about an occasion on which she and
her future husband had flirted in the late 1880s:
"glauming me over and when I said I washed up and down as far as possible
asking me and did you wash possible"
So, in case anyone was wondering, this isn't a new joke!
Greg Downing, at greg.downing at nyu.edu or gd2 at is2.nyu.edu
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