The playground "slide"

[Laurence Horn]

On May 3, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

> You forgot monkey bars and girl scout cookies.

Isn't "monkey bar" another name for what we called a jungle gym?  I think we only used the latter term.  But I suppose if some outlander called the jungle gym a monkey bar we wouldn't have looked around for someone to whip up a banana daiquiri.  And we were also pretty sure we didn't have to worry about getting cut by the sharp blades of a see-saw.  It's all context.

LH



> Not to mention the
> infamous Welsh Dragon Sausage.
>
>    VS-)
>
> On 5/3/2012 2:12 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> ... (And let's not get started in again on peanut butter, phone sex,
>> and cactus trees.) And a jungle gym wasn't really a gym, or located in
>> the jungle. Go figure. LH
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