A headline:

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Nov 5 02:48:25 UTC 2009


"NOOK e-READER SUIT FILED"


I'm still having a problem with the fact that an obscenity of my
youth, "nookie," is no longer considered to be such. I.e., "NOOK
e-READER" > "Nookie Reader," the title of an um-book and I'm shocked.


Heard on Comedy Central: "cooch-grabber" used for "camel-toe"

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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