very minor note on "lady" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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I only am familiar with "bag lady" (a woman who talks to herself on the
street, carrying bags -- looks like a homeless person), not "bag woman".

Also not mentioned so far is "cat lady" (a (usually) older, single woman
who has way too many cats in her home).  As opposed to Cat Woman (a sexy
woman of the build of Lee Meriwether, Michelle Pfeiffer, Halle Berry,
Julie Newmar, etc. who wears too tight clothing and purrs -- Eartha Kitt
never really did it for me.)

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> That's probably because most of us hear it as "bag woman", not to be
> confused with equally notoriously diagnostic "bagman".
>
> VS-)
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> --"By God, woman! What more do you want from me?!"
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> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I don't think this thread has mentioned the notoriously diagnostic
"bag
> > lady."
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> > JL
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