fool

[victor steinbok]

I agree with the first three of these plus one more: men don't know much
about exfoliating, but they do it a lot. It helps to know that the guy was
saying it while holding a disposable BIC-type razor in his hand.

This is quite different from the original "dancing fool"--and exactly why I
asked the question. Incidentally, Frank Zappa's song "Dancing fool" was
also along these lines. What about "fool for love"? Otherwise, I think, Jon
has it exactly right.

VS-)

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
> victor steinbok <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> > "Men are exfoliating fools."
>
> FWIW, "in my dialect," that means
>
> 1) Men are really, really good at performing the act of exfoliating.
> 2) Men really, really enjoy performing the act of exfoliating.
> 3) Men really, really enjoy performing the act of exfoliating upon
> themselves.
> 4) Men are exfoliating [an otherwise-unspecified group of] fools.
>
> In like manner, Richard Pryor once said,
>
> "When I was in the joint, I was a license-plate-stamping motherfucker!"
>
> That is to say, when he was in the joint, he license-plate-stamped his ass
> off.
> --
> -Wilson
>

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