not masculine/queer

[Laurence Horn]

>On Jan 29, 2006, at 9:11 AM, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>
>>"Plays for the other team," "sits on the other side of the
>>bleachers," and on and on and on.
>>
>>dInIs
>>
>>>On Jan 28, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>>
>>>>Somehow 'maybe X and Y just go to different gyms' sounds like it
>>>>should mean more than it probably does...
>>>
>>>you can see a lot of variants here: 'X works out at the other gym',
>>>for instance.
>
>"bats for the other team" is the way i've mostly heard it; "bats" is
>definitely more vivid than "plays".
>
There was an extended riff on this in an old Seinfeld, based if
memory serves on the "plays for {our/the other} team" version of the
metaphor.

LH

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