"pee" goes standard

[Jonathan Lighter]

But he did use the word "gas."

Hehhehhehhehhehhehheh: he said "g - ass"!


JL



On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Jan 13, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > 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
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> ..and surprisingly neglecting to invoke the technical term for describing
> this episode, a "shart".
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> 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>
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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
> >> of
> >>> both sexes and one or more professors, "I gotta go pee."  TMI?
> >>>
> >>> --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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