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[Laurence Horn]

At 3:15 PM -0500 2/8/01, James A. Landau wrote:
>There was (is?) a well-known singing group called "The Mommas and the Papas".
>  Every time I hear that name I recall reading (I think in Polly Adler's _A
>House Is Not A Home_) that "mama" and "papa" were terms for two types of
>Lesbians.  Any connection?
>
They (the late Cass Elliot [a.k.a. Mama Cass], Michelle and John
Phillips, Denny Doherty) were The Mamas (not Mommas) and the Papas,
and I'd wager there's no connections with taxonomies for lesbians.

larry