"pee" goes standard

[Laurence Horn]

On Jan 13, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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

..and surprisingly neglecting to invoke the technical term for describing this episode, a "shart".

LH
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> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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>>> nowadays
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>> JL
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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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>>> --Charlie
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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
>> in a
>>> 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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