..happy endings..

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:50 AM -0700 8/7/02, Dave Wilton wrote:
>  > 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.

A local esthetic, as it were.

L