Poon Tang Aftershave (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Both those songs were current in both World Wars.  Which we won. By not
being Boy Scouts.

JL

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:44 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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> You guys are causing me to have flashbacks on things that I thought I had
> repressed for forty-some years. One thing that surfaces was something
> called Instant Pussy. It must have been something like Viagra in a spray
> can, I guess for GIs who wanted to get more bang for their buck during a
> bout of Yellow Fever. Lullabyed to sleep with rounds of Bang-bang Lulu and
> Barnacle Bill the Sailor. We Were Not Boy Scouts. No wonder we lost the
> war.
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