Twats

[Charles Doyle]

I suppose everybody knows about Browning's "owls and bats,/
Cowls and twats" (in Pippa Passes)--where the poet
apparently thought a twat was a (visible) part of a nun's
regalia.  Those English!

--Charlie



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>Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:34:23 -0400
>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: spaz and Tiger Woods
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>David, is your houseguest familiar with "Fawlty Towers"?
>From time to time,
>the sign, "Fawlty Towers," would be "anagrammatized," so to
speak. On one o=
>f
>the shows, the anagram read, "Flowery Twats." This was back
in the '70's,
>but I'm still trying to recover frrom the shock. ;--)
>"Spastic" and "cripple" are taboo, but "twat" is
okay?! "Ssup wit dat?!" as
>Ali G (or whatever his name is) might ask.
>
>-Wilson

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