"Stinky pinky"

[Peter A. McGraw]

I'm relieved that there's someone else who remembers the Age of Absurd
Innocence.  Just so the historical record of that era will be complete, the
version I knew had "Sta-hinkety pa-hinkety" as the fourth variation.

Peter Mc.

--On Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:38 AM -0700 "Arnold M. Zwicky"
<zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:

> 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.
>
> a Stinkety Pinkety from long ago: what do you call a coaster underneath
> a glass of vermouth?
>
>
>
> a Noilly Prat doily mat.
>
> yes, it all seems so absurdly innocent.
>
> arnold



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Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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