Nonsexual lickety-split

[Page Stephens]

>From The good ship venus Oscar Brand version. There are others.

And when we reached our station,
Through skillful navigation,
The ship got sunk, in a wave of spunk,
>From too much fornication.

Page Stephens

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> on 9/8/05 11:57 PM, Mullins, Bill at Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL wrote:
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> >> Sexual "spunk," n., appears in the (relatively) recent American
> > umliterature;
> >> probably the verb does too, but I haven't noted it.
>
> Sexual equality of sorts was intimated in Paris in the '50s [probably an
> American author]:
>
> 'Rosa too was beginning to moan and drove her fingers into her aching maw
> with a frenzy that showed her coming was also near. Then, with a
shuddering
> groan, her hands slowed between her thighs and with convulsive kicks she
too
> spunked down her warm thighs.'
> - Pearson Groves, 'Juvenile Lead,', Pall Mall Press, Paris, 1957
>
> -- Neil Crawford
> >
> >
> > Lou Grant: You know, you've got spunk!
> > Mary Richards: Well, thank you.
> > Lou Grant: I HATE spunk!
> >
> >
> >> _ADS-L list member_ : Huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh.  He said :
> >> "Spunk".