"a nice girl like you"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> YBQ lacks the classic, facetious pick-up line, "What's a nice girl like you
> doing in a place like this?"
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> But what's even worse is that GB searches don't take it back any earlier
> than the 1990s - despite the fact that I recall it well from high school,
> very probably because Martin Scorsese directed a short feature with that
> title in 1963. (I used the phrase frequently, and it got me nowhere.)
>
> I haven't checked elsewhere.
>
> But WTH's with GB?
>
> JL
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Precisely! This pswaydo-question is so ancient that it was parodied in
the seminal porn-flick, Deepthroat, when the token gay guy asked of
John Holmes's penis,

"What's a nice joint like you doing in a girl like this?"

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