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

[Wilson Gray]

On Nov 11, 2004, at 11:57 AM, Barbara Need wrote:

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> Subject:      Followup: Re: "Brain" as Slang for "Oral Sex": fun with
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> 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!
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> Barbara

Shapely female? From behind, you say? And bending over? Perhaps it was
meant to attract the attention of those of us whose patron is Aphrodite
Kallipyge, the goddess of the fine behind.

-Wilson "Baby Got Back That Azz Up" Gray

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>> This may or may not have anything to do with the topic:
>> http://www.overduemedia.com/archive.aspx?strip=20041107
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>> "Unshelved" is a web comic strip set in a library. Yesterday's
>> (Sunday's)
>> strip is a single long panel.
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>>  - 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
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