"Stinky pinky"

[Mullins, Bill]

Like I said in the email, I am an amateur student of words, in all their
forms.

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> From: Wilson Gray [mailto:wilson.gray at RCN.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:32 PM
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> Subject: Re: "Stinky pinky"
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> 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
> > character Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey) uses the phrase.
> >
> > 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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> 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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> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> 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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> >> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >> Poster:       Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM>
> >> Subject:      "Stinky pinky"
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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?
> >>
> >> -Wilson Gray
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