scream-of-consciousness

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:03 PM -0500 3/11/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>1994 Don Oldenburg in _Washington Post_ (May 30) C5:  Of his unpublished
>collection of 125 war poems, many are scream-of-consciousness pieces that
>fly out of nowhere.
>
>23,000 raw Googlits.
>
>BONUS
>Ibid., quoting a former army nurse: "We really were kids....You got these
>real fuzzy-faced boys, and you had these real fuzzy-faced girls taking care
>of them."
>
>Meaning "young and innocent," of either sex.
>
>Fortunately, the few Google hits on "fuzzy-faced girls" seem to refer
>chiefly to canines.
>
I thought it referred to the result of what happens to the girls in
question when people with my quality of eyesight take their glasses
off.

LH

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