molest, n.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Nope. Just regular "mo-LEST."

"Mole-sters" might still make good movie monsters, however. Half human, half
mole, with a touch (as Davy Crockett supposedly said) of the snapping
turtle.

JL

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > An attorney on Fox News oberves that the tot mom's defense is that she'd
> > been victimized by repeated "sexual molest."
>
> Back in the day, there was a heavily-advertised film entitled, The
> Molesters. I figured that it was some kind of horror-flick featuring
> monsters from outer space called "MOLE-sters." A friend bogarted me
> into going to see it with her. (IMO, SF works better in the
> imagination than on the big screen. Hence, I had no interest in this
> movie and hadn't bothered to read any of the ads.) I sat through the
> movie without the slightest clue as to what in the hell it was
> supposed to be occurring. There was no attack from outer space, no
> monsters, no gunfire, and the movie, made in Switzerland, was set in
> that country and not in the U.S. WTF?!
>
> "By the way, have you seen that movie, The muh-LESSters?"
> "No, I haven't. What movie are you talk... Aaarrrggghhh!!!"
>
> Presumably, the FN guy didn't say, "MOLE-st."
>
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