"pee" goes standard

[Jonathan Lighter]

In a related development, Al Roker tells MSNBC  about the time he "pooped
his pants" in the White House.

Classic TMI.

JL

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> > In the awfully decorous American South nowadays, I will commonly hear a
> > young woman casually declare, to a group consisting of college students
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> > both sexes and one or more professors, "I gotta go pee."  TMI?
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> > Headline at Yahoo! News:
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> > "Ancient Pompeiians Could Go Upstairs to Pee."
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> > In my day polite individuals didn't use this word in public, much less
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> > routine news headline.  You might get a pass if you were a toddler, but
> > older than that you'd get a reprimand.
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