''The Language of Flowers"

[Jonathon Green]

Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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>I think Jonathon Green's post is cited here. It's not mine, despite the attribution.
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Indeed. I trust this is a one-off glitch.

Thanks to JL for note in re the Drexels. Forgive my transatlantic
ignorance/lousy memory. Nonetheless, I still feel that the tone of
Scully's naming - as Ron Butters puts it, 'bawdy puns' - might still
mean that we're getting 'two for one', both a dig at the Philadelphia
Main Liners and the Yiddishism, given the regular association in slang
of matters excretory and homosexuality

What I meant by 'Victoriana' was simply a shorthand for 'something that
originally pertained to the Victorian era'.

JG