Inquiring minds want to know...

[Dan Goncharoff]

Be very careful. The corn has ears, the spuds have eyes, and the
cauliflower knows...
DanG


On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> OK, here's an excerpt from an interview with Rashida Jones (with whom =
> you may be familiar from her role as Amy Poehler's associate on "Parks =
> and Recreation" or her recent appearance on The Daily Show), discussing =
> her new comedy divorce movie "Celeste and Jesse Forever", which she =
> wrote and co-stars in with Andy Samberg (of SNL fame). =20
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/movies/rashida-jones-writes-a-new-part-f=
> or-herself.html
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> A is Jones, Q is Melena Ryzik, her interviewer; Will [McCormack] is her =
> co-screenwriter. =20
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> A. ...[I]f you can figure out how to harness that femininity =97 there=92s=
>  something we have that=92s so mysterious to men =97 that if you can =
> figure out how to use that, you=92re good to go.
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> Q. On that note, let=92s talk about one of the funniest moments in the =
> movie, when you and Andy take vegetables and other spherical objects and =
> =97 how can we say it? =97 get bawdy with them.
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> A. Pleasure? Have our way with a ChapStick tube? Will and I [masturbate] =
> vegetables when we write together. We go to the farmers market, and we =
> target innocent vegetables and bring them home with us. We do it when =
> we=92re bored. It=92s pathetic. So why don=92t we share that with the =
> world? =20
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> I'm just wondering what [masturbate] would have been a useful euphemism =
> for in this context.  Masturbate *with* veggies, maybe, but=85  I know, =
> I've led a sheltered life.=20
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