Richard (alias "Long Dick") Chasmore

[Jonathan Lighter]

I blame them to the max.

JL

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Jul 30, 2011, at 5:46 PM, paul johnson wrote:
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> > 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
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> I blame olives.
>
> LH
> >
> > 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.
> >>
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