Richard (alias "Long Dick") Chasmore

[paul johnson]

Paul Johnson
Just as there are no models, only super ones; no one labors in the
fertile triangle they only star there.  Something to do with menus,
there are no 'smalls' anymore

On 7/30/2011 4:31 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Laurence Horn<laurence.horn at yale.edu>  wrote:
>> Long _Dong_ Silver
> A descendant, perhaps, of The Dong with the Luminous Nose, discussed
> by Edward Lear?
>
> Probably not, given that Long Dong is a pornstar - BTW, has anyone
> else noted that any one who appears in any form of pornography is a
> "pornstar" [sic WRT the spelling] and not merely a "porn actress" or a
> "porn actor"? - and Lear's limerick is quoted - and illustrated - in
> the 1942 edition of The Book of Knowledge, The Children's
> Encyclopedia. And, of course, no one at that time would have exposed
> an innocent child to a double-entendre that he wouldn't get till he
> was in his 30's, needless to say.
>
> Or not.
>
> Youneverknow.
>
> --
> -Wilson
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> -Mark Twain
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