Another kind of buddy: ''guy''

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:16 AM -0400 6/15/07, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 6/14/2007 11:57 PM, RonButtersworth wrote:

he did?  any relation to the syrupy Missus?

>>I am talking about the vocative of address, as in, "Guy, you forgot to zip up
>>your pants."
>>
>>It is not rare.
>
>My apologies.  Since I don't go to bars, I don't go to gay bars
>either.  (Impeccable logical conclusion, I believe.)
>
>Joel
>
I think a grant-funded empirical study is called for.  We will need a
large sample size of men to go into gay, straight, and mixed bars,
where they will emerge (one by one) from the men's rooms with flies
unzipped, calibrating the responses from male strangers calling
attention to this state of affairs.

LH

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