"Hiking the Appalachian Trail"

[Dennis Baron]

McGreevey. 7th hit when you google "gay new jersey" -- what's that say
about google? or about new jersey, for that matter?  i guess you
really have to stay east of the hudson after all.

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On Dec 3, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

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> At 12/3/2009 03:20 PM, Dennis Baron wrote:
>> yeah, I've been doing what I can to promote the term (well, not by
>> imitating Sanford, you understand), but it seems destined to fizzle
>> out. What is it about governors, anyway? No good terms came out of
>> socks-on Spitzer either, did they? At least the former gov of New
>> Jersey got a ripped-from-the-headlines Law and Order episode, but now
>> I can't even remember his name . . . .
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> Corleone, wasn't it?  Or am I confusing two New Jersey dynasties?
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> Joel
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>> On Dec 3, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:05:08PM -0500, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
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>>>> After Governor Sanford's spokesman said he was "hiking the
>>>> Appalachian Trail," I thought that that expression might
>>>> catch on as a euphemism for sex or specifically extramarital
>>>> sex.  Is there evidence that it has caught on in that way?
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>>> Not much, but I really wish it had.
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>>> Jesse Sheidlower
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