"Big Nate" should be X-rated?

[Laurence Horn]

On Dec 4, 2013, at 5:12 PM, David A. Daniel wrote:

> Yes, but I maintain that only a dirty mind would think than an eraser is
> anything other than an eraser. Tsk, tsk.
> DAD

Curiously, urbandictionary doesn't have any relevant hits for "eraser" (although it does have lemmas for 'cocaine' and a vodka-based drink), but one of the entries for "clitoris" is 'The tiny pencil-eraser of luuuuuve', which may or may have been what Gina had in mind.  Then again, an eraser can also be a rubber, which in turn…oh, forget it.  Perhaps this is one of those times when an eraser is only an eraser, as the good doctor would concede.

LH
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> Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> Subject:      Re: "Big Nate" should be X-rated?
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> At 12/4/2013 03:23 PM, David A. Daniel wrote:
>> Dirty mind!
>> DAD
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> But it's not I but Lincoln Peirce who drew the pictures and wrote the words!
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> Joel
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>> Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
>> Subject:      "Big Nate" should be X-rated?
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>> Today's "Big Nate" on the child-friendly comic strip page:
>> http://www.gocomics.com/bignate/2013/12/04#.Up-KwSeMmz4
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>> Joel
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