lemon party

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, I know, but she'll always be "bronto" to me.

Also, David Quammen has been working for a decade to get T. Rex named as the
Montana State Bird.

JL

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> It was so long ago that even the term brontosaurus has become obsolete.
>  It's Apatosaurus now.
> http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Brontosaurus
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> And T Rex now gets it's butt kicked by Spinosaurus as the largest
> carnivore.
> http://dsc.discovery.com/dinosaurs/spinosaurus.html
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> But "lemon party"!?  So an old gay man is now a lemon?  It's hard to keep
> up.
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> Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 9.
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> > A friend called long distnace to ask the meaning of this phrase, which
> he'd
> > heard on his favorite television cartoon. He was mystified and so was I,
> so
> > I made inquiry of another friend, chosen at random.
> >
> > He confessed having heard "lemon party" a few years ago, from Mr. Burns
> > of _The Simpsons_, but had no idea what it meant either.
> >
> > UrbanDictionary instantly revealed that the meaning is (I'm
> > paraphrasing) "an orgy of unclothed, elderly homosexual men."
> >
> > The term seemingly derives from the name of an internationally popular
> > website featuring on-the-spot pictures of such events. My good sense and
> > powers of imagination kept me from going there.
> >
> > But here's the point: in bronto days, when I was a lad, we didn't feel
> the
> > lack, so obvious in retrospect, of a handy designator for that particular
> > referent.
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> > Why was that?
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> > JL
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