Like a mackerel

Mon Mar 5 21:09:20 UTC 2007

Is no one else familar with the old cliche' "dead as a mackerel"?

  JL

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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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
>Subject: Re: Like a mackerel

>"A cold fish," sounds like.
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> JL
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>neil wrote:
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>Again, from Loren D, Estleman, Å’StressÂ¹, 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?
>
>--Neil Crawford

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