"Stinky pinky"

[sagehen]

>On Sep 29, 2004, at 9:44 AM, Bill Mullins follows up on other glossings
>of "stinky pinky":
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>> I believe in the movie "Dazed and Confused" (a really good look at
>> underachiever high school life in the late 1970's, from 1993), the
>> character
>> Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey) uses the phrase.
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>> Do a Google search for "one in the pink, one in the stink" for more
>> info
>> than you really wanted.  See also "one in the coot and one in the
>> boot".
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>i'm sure that this was not the sense intended on the Jerry Springer
>show, but there is a non-sexual sense of the term: the name of kind of
>word play, in which the main player defines something that is named by
>a two-word rhyming expression, and the other participants try to guess
>it.  if the rhyming words have one syllable each, it's a Stink Pink; if
>two, a Stinky Pinky; if three, a Stinkety Pinkety; if four, a
>Gestinkety Gepinkety.
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>a Stinkety Pinkety from long ago: what do you call a coaster underneath
>a glass of vermouth?
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>a Noilly Prat doily mat.
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>yes, it all seems so absurdly innocent.
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>arnold
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I'm so glad you remembered this.  I was trying to haul it up from my
childhood, but couldn't be sure of my recollection.  Your description
sounds exactly right.
AM