Inquiring minds want to know...

[Jonathan Lighter]

Well, there's "jerk off with" and "jack off with," but my impression was
that these must have eliminated from consideration for some reason.


JL

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Aug 3, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > Try "screw" or the equivalent.
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> So "[masturbate]" is a euphemism for "screw" or the equivalent?  I'm not
> convinced it is, even in metaphorical contexts.
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> > See, strictly speaking vegetables don't have...so you can't...but it's
> > metaphorical.
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> > Also, do "spherical" vegetables really work best?
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> I wondered about that too ("vegetables and other spherical objects"?), but
> I guess we'll have to see the movie and decide for ourselves.
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> LH
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