Query: "birds and bees"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Surely they didn't use the m-word on TV ?  They must have said something like, "She helps tom turkeys to date."

  JL

George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU> wrote:
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Wilson posted:
IAC, if you've . . . dated a woman whose student-assistant job was
masturbating
turkeys for the California ag school at UC Davis. . . .

I think I saw her as a guest on What's My Line, back around 1956? The
panel got it right away, I remember.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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