feminine name: "Stuart"

[Jonathan Lighter]

The secret HDAS files have "Shit City" (navalese for Norf - k) in print from
1972, though later testimony pushes it back to 1941.

JL


On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net>wrote:

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> As a Norfolkian, I hasten to add there is no Norfolk High School (or hasn't
> been since about 1910), and the cheer referred to was one usually recited
> by
> sailors stationed there, whose social life wasn't what they had hoped for.
> Up 'til fairly recently, Norfolk was known in the Navy circles as "Shit
> City" for the disdain in which Navy people were regarded.  Not the case
> these days.
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> > Back in the '70's, a then-roommate of mine had a girlfriend named Mary
> > Stuart [Surname], who was called "Stuart."
> > I also had an upstairs neighbor named Mary Mason [Surname] who called
> > herself "Mason." Mason was a legend in her own time in our apartment
> > becaus=
> > e
> > she would shamelessly come knocking on our door to "borrow" a few squares
> > o=
> > f
> > toilet paper, when she needed to drop a deuce. True, the nearest Star
> > Marke=
> > t
> > was lost in the
> > downhill-cross-the-railroad-tracks-recross-the-railroad-then-back-uphill
> > distance in Cambridge (we lived in Somerville) and who wants to be
> > bothered
> > with that hassle? So, really, one has to admire her 'nadsy practicality,
> > under the circumstances. But, somehow, it was so, well, *unladylike*! "
> > 'Po=
> > n
> > my word!" as my mother would say.
> >
> > Speaking of cheers, Stuart had gone to Norfolk (VA) High School and
> > claimed
> > that her school had a cheer that went,
> >
> > We don't drink!
> > We don't smoke!
> > NOR-FOLK!
> >
> > I've since met other Norfolkers who have assured me that Stuart wasn't
> > just
> > pulling our Northern legs. There really is such a cheer.
> >
> > -Wilson
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> > <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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> >> One of Larry King's guests tonight was named Stuart Brazell.
> >>
> >> She's pretty popular on the Web:
> >>
> >> http://www.pochepictures.com/stuartinterview.html
> >>
> >> She told Larry that "Stuart" was her middle name, but she's been using
> it
> >> as
> >> her everyday forename since she was little.
> >>
> >> JL
> >>
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