..happy endings..

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:47 PM -0400 8/7/02, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>I remember hearing this type of "massage" euphemized as "a local [massage]"
>in the 1960's. E.g.: "I don't give locals, and even if I did it would cost
>you twenty dollars extra."
>
Hmmm..."local" as opposed to "global" or to "express", I wonder?  I
kind of like the latter conceit:  the local, unlike the express,
stops at all the stations and takes a little more time.

larry