Query: "birds and bees"

[George Thompson]

Actually, this was a jest, only to be appreciated by those old codgers
who remember "What's My Line" and can try to imagine Dorothy
Kilgallen* saying to Wilson's old flame "Do you masturbate turkeys?"

*Or was Kilgallen on the panel of "I've Got a Secret"?

GAT

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

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:30 pm
Subject: Re: Query: "birds and bees"

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