More on "moist"

[Bill Palmer]

I'm thinking the name of the series was "Wings"

Bill Palmer

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> Speaking of "flying," does anyone else remember the TV sitcom,
> Airport? Because of unfortunate circumstances, Lowell, the mechanic,
> becomes a roommate of the brothers, the pilots, and, in essence,
> becomes their house mother, fixing them bag lunches. As they open
> their lunch bags, a brief interchange something like following occurs:
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> A. Look! In the bottom of the bag!
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> B. A _moist_ towlette!
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> -Wilson
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> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Joel S. Berson<Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> At 8/10/2009 12:34 PM, Alison Murie wrote:
>>>I was perhaps stretching things to attribute the actual expression
>>>"moist panties" to Erica Jong.  (Chances are, no panties were
>>>involved!)  What I was thinking was that the wetness of female lust,
>>>which does figure in Jong's book,  might have been embarrassing enough
>>>to many women that  "moistness"
>>>itself could by association become offensive.   Just a WAG.
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>> Perhaps not so WAG.  I didn't mention in my previous post that
>> Googling books for <"fear of flying" moist> also brings up other
>> authors who seem to associate her title with "most".  Although from
>> that limited search I don't know how closely -- they might not be on
>> the same page.
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>> Joel
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