Like a mackerel

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:51 AM -0800 3/5/07, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>"A cold fish," sounds like.
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>   JL

and/or a limber and slippery one

LH

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>neil <neil at TYPOG.CO.UK> wrote:
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>Again, from Loren D, Estleman, 'Stress', 1996 [Robert Hale, London, 1997,
>54]:
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>"I dated an erotic dancer from the Pussycat that could fold both feet behind
>her neck."
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>"She any good?" Kubiceck asked.
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>"Like a fucking mackerel."
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>Can someone elucidate that last comment for me?
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>--Neil Crawford
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