"Stinky pinky"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sep 29, 2004, at 12:44 PM, Mullins, Bill wrote:

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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
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> 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
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> than you really wanted.  See also "one in the coot and one in the
> boot".

My word, Bill! Is that what your parents sent you to school for?!
Because I *know* that you didn't learn that kind of language at home!

-Wilson

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>> From: Wilson Gray [mailto:wilson.gray at RCN.COM]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:00 AM
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>> Subject: "Stinky pinky"
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>> Poster:       Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM>
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>> A woman on today's Springer show used this phrase, which I've
>> never heard before. Unfortunately, I missed the context in
>> which the term was used. Does anybody know what it means?
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>> -Wilson Gray
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