benny?/HDAS

[neil]

on 15/6/05 9:07 pm, Jonathan Lighter at wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM wrote:

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> "Benny" has been in use for several decades as a slang term for "a benefit."
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> HDAS has an illuminating entry.  All households should own at least one copy
> of the two volumes that have appeared.
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> JL
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OK -- I do know how to spell 'masturbation', but it's post prandial time
over here and my fingers aren't so responsive as normal.

--Neil