Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation

[Eric Nielsen]

L i p o m e a T.

Eric

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Apr 13, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:44 AM, David A. Daniel <dad at pokerwiz.com>
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> >> Morning Glory
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> > WTF *is* the sexual meaning of "morning glory."
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> = "morning wood", as discussed (way) upthread.
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> LH
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> > I know this term only as
> > the name of a flowering climber so common in the Saint Louis of my youth
> as
> > to be practically a weed and that's all.
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