..happy endings..

[Dave Wilton]

> 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.

I assumed it was meant to be localized to a specific region of the anatomy,
much like a "local anesthetic," albeit with the opposite physiological
response.