Followup: Re: "Brain" as Slang for "Oral Sex": fun with metonymy

[Beverly Flanigan]

Whatever works. . . .

At 10:57 AM 11/11/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>I did not see the entire news report, but apparently Chicago buses
>are showing ads with the headline: Read Books! Get Brain! and if I
>saw it correctly, the illustration shows a shapely female from
>behind, bending over a pile of books!
>
>Barbara
>
>>This may or may not have anything to do with the topic:
>>http://www.overduemedia.com/archive.aspx?strip=20041107
>>
>>"Unshelved" is a web comic strip set in a library. Yesterday's (Sunday's)
>>strip is a single long panel.
>>
>>  - teenage male patron #1, looking offstage (to reader's left): Man, did you
>>see the size of her brain?
>>  - teenage male patron #2, ditto: She's too smart for me. I'm going to go
>>study!
>>  - librarian #1, in background at information desk: Did I fall through a
>>hole in space time?
>>  - librarian #2, ditto: Welcome to Earth Two.
>>
>>Well, *I* like the strip.
>>
>>mark by hand