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

[Jonathan Lighter]

As orange juice comes from the Florida Sunshine Tree, so "poon Tang" comes from the Poon Tree (genus _Callophylum_) of Indomalaya.

  Like you didn't know that.

  JL



Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>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 wrote:
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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.
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> >
> Me too. But I do have records of:
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> _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_.
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> JG
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