poon-tang (was Re: [ADS-L] your most sought word orphraseorigins?

Fri Dec 15 15:55:06 UTC 2006

Wilson,

Many years ago an old now reformed racist friend of mine from Bethesda,
Maryland used to say that, "All they want is poontang, Moon Pies and knee
high pie." I never asked him how he spelled knee high or if he spelled it
Nehi in terms of the soda which might put a slightly different slant on the
meaning of the sentence.

Page Stephens

> [Original Message]
> From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: 12/15/2006 10:13:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] poon-tang (was Re: [ADS-L] your most sought word
orphraseorigins?
>
> From a rerun of That 'Seventies Show, Kelso (Ashton Kutcher) speaking:
>
> Whoa! Chicks must really dig astronauts! It says here that they get
> all the Tang they want!
>
> -Wilson
>
> On 12/15/06, Jonathon Green <slang at abecedary.net> wrote:
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> > Subject:      Re: poon-tang (was Re: [ADS-L] your most sought word or
phrase
> >               origins?
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> > Stephen Goranson wrote:
> > > O. Lost 377 has
> > > A fellow's got to have a little snooey, hasn't he?  snooey--sic.
That's a new
> > > one to me.
> > >
> > >
> > Me too. But I do have records of:
> >
> > _smoey_, (Aus) the vagina, and thus _have a bit of smooey_, (Aus.) to
> > have sexual intercourse
> >
> > for both of which citations exist from 1950. In both cases the first
> > cite comes from a prison glossary, published in 1950, but collected in
> > the late 19309s/1940s. _Smooey_ appears to relate to _smooch_.
> >
> > JG
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