Like a mackerel

[Charles Doyle]

It would be useful to know whether it's desirable or opprobrious for a woman to be a "mackerel"!

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 08:51:56 -0800
>From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
>Subject: Re: Like a mackerel

>"A cold fish," sounds like.
>
>  JL
>
>neil <neil at TYPOG.CO.UK> wrote:
>
>Again, from Loren D, Estleman, ŒStress¹, 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."
>
>Can someone elucidate that last comment for me?
>
>--Neil Crawford

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