"mannery"

[Scot LaFaive]

>
> Nor am I, but I can't help wondering whether "manneries" in the plural
> might not have had an alternate career as a way of representing those
> oversize chests on certain individuals of a male persuasion, the kind for
> which the "manzeer" or "bro" were proposed (by, if memory serves, Mr.
> Constanza).


Now that's a usage I could get behind! And, yes, Frank Constanza proposed
the Manzeer while Kramer proposed the Bro, but Constanza thought that name
"too ethnic."

Scot

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> At 9:37 AM -0500 7/7/09, Scot LaFaive wrote:
> >Is it just me, or is the world going completely blend crazy lately?
> >
> >On a side note, I never noticed how ambiguous that phrase "is it just me"
> >can be. For the record, I'm not blend crazy.
> >
> >Scot
>
> Nor am I, but I can't help wondering whether "manneries" in the
> plural might not have had an alternate career as a way of
> representing those oversize chests on certain individuals of a male
> persuasion, the kind for which the "manzeer" or "bro" were proposed
> (by, if memory serves, Mr. Constanza).
>
> LH
>
> >
> >On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Jonathan Lighter
> ><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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> >>  That's right, "mannery." Used several times on last night's installment
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> >>  "Millionaire Matchmaker."
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> >>  It means chain, rings, or other jewelry worn by men.
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> >>  JL
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