More on "moist"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Don't get Freudian.

JL
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: More on "moist"
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> At 11:57 AM -0400 8/17/09, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> >Sounds like the cross between the mythical spaghetti test and a
> >behaviorist joke--1974 is a bit late for behaviorist jokes, no? Classic
> >behaviorist humor dates from the 1950s.
> >
> >    VS-)
>
> So we're really testing to see whether the spaghetti had a good time
> in the pot?
>
> LH
>
> >
> >Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >>Just so future ages (if any) be not misled about the history of humor.
> >>
> >>In 1974-75 my next-door neighbor observed that a girl who'd "had a good
> time
> >>on a date" could tell by flinging her panties against the wall. If they
> >>stuck, she'd had a good time.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------
> >The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



--
"There You Go Again...Using Reason on the Planet of the Duck-Billed
Platypus"

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org