[masturbating -- or should that be -ed?] vegetables

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/5/2012 06:41 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>It seems to involve rubbing them raw, at least those of a cucumber
>persuasion.

Or marrow.  Or zucchini.  Or carrot.  Or pick your favorite
cylinder-shaped veggie.

Seemed obvious to me at the beginning of the discussion, and I'm
sorry I didn't pipe up sooner.

Joel

>Recall Jeff Prucher's post from a couple of days ago:
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>http://www.vulture.com/2012/08/rashida-jones-celeste-and-jesse-forever-interview.html
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>"We do sometimes go on jags where we jerk off vegetables and then, like,
>four hours have gone by. And we've done nothing, but there's a lot of,
>like, chafed Asian cucumbers."
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>LH
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>On Aug 5, 2012, at 5:37 PM, Dan Nussbaum wrote:
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> > OK, we finally sorta sorted out how Rashida Jones manages to =
> > "[masturbate] vegetables".
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> > I have not figured it out.
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> > Dan Nussbaum
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