"explicit"

[Marc Velasco]

blue laws and liquor sales I understand, but ...

>> the care and upkeep of clothes horses.
???

can you expand please, and elucidate the arcane practices of northern NJ?



On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Doug Harris <cats22 at frontiernet.net> wrote:
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> . . .  And, mutatis mutandis, with
> "lewd".  And then there's "lust".
> LH
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> The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
> came up, around 15 years ago, with a
> somewhat humorous acronym for/employing
> LUST -- referring to underground storage
> tanks (as in gasoline tanks) that are not
> as tight as they're intended to be. 'Made
> for a lusty headline or two at the time,
> in my recollection as an editor then at
> Prodigy.
> dh
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