Heard on Springer: _whore_ > "dog"; woman addressed as "man"

[Jonathan Lighter]

This getting too damned complicated!

JL

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thirty-ish, white male speaker:
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> "I'm a _whore_ [hor], Jerry. I done slept with 340 different women. I
> ain't nothin' but a dang ol' _whore_ [ho]."
>
>
> IME, "hippie"-types have been vocativing women as "dude" for the past
> half-century. Here of late, I've been hearing black male "guests"
> vocativing women as "man," when stressed-out, at least:
>
> "I gave up a football scholarship to the University of Arkansas for you, _man_!"
>
> Just this instant heard a forty-ish white male do the same thing:
>
> She: "I'm leaving you."
> He: "What?!!! Tiffany! Come on, man!"
>
> A Cracker-Jack-prize-level catch from a thirty-ish, black male speaker:
>
> "I've been a dog all my life, Jerry. But, now, this dog done turnt
> into a _werewolf_!"
>
> An exaggeration, since he was merely knocking it out on the side with
> the thirty-ish babysitter, tipping her a little extra. That's not
> exactly player-grade action.
>
> A twenty-ish, white-male audience-member says to a male guest:
>
> "You've been _rocking_ both those women, but …"
>
> strangely using _rock_ as a cover for "fuck." How quaint!
>
> Youneverknow.;-)
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