Q: Pupil of the eye as the most expansive male organ

[Laurence Horn]

>That was the rumor.
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>   JL

Hey, I remember that rumor too.

LH

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>"Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU> wrote:
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>Joel complained:
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>>  > And firetruck is not in OED2!
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>And I replied:
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>>All right, but we weren't exactly looking in OED2 for our vocabulary in
>>high school in the sixties.
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>Joel clarifies:
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>This was not a complaint about tittering teenagers with gutter minds,
>but about the OED.
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>Ah. But I never seriously thought that "firetruck" was in any dictionary. To
>me the expression was always two words, which some weirdos might hiyphenate
>but that nobody would ever write solid. I saw that part of it as just a
>reach, to make the joke work.
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>(Memory bubble reaching the surface: Was the celebrity in the rumor Soupy
>Sales?)
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>m a m
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