"ample bits" and "pleather"

[Laurence Horn]

On Jan 29, 2013, at 2:40 PM, Alice Faber wrote:

> On 1/29/13 2:35 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> On Jan 29, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>
>>> Wilson inquires what "pleather" is.  Surely in this context it must
>>> be "pleasure leather", that which a dominatrix wears.
>>>
>>> Joel
>>
>> Originally a blend < "plastic" + "leather"?
>
> That's always been my (unscientific) assumption.
>>
I'm surprised no enterprising entrepreneur has gotten around to opening a shop called "Beyond the Pleather Principle".

LH

>>>
>>> I had written:
>>>> I like the "ample bits" (close to "naughty bits") and "pleather".
>>>>
>>>> Joel
>>>>
>>>> At 1/28/2013 05:42 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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>>>>> http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-315548308.html
>>>>> We do love ourselves a bit of Ruth Jones. As the awesome Nessa in
>>>>> Gavin & Stacey, her ample bits shoehorned in to all that pleather (and
>>>>> getting jiggy with everyone from John Prescott to 'all eight members
>>>>> of Goldie Looking Chain'), she created one of the finest comedy
>>>>> characters of all time. Thus when we go to find out what's occurring
>>>>> (sorry, had to be done) with her today, we are very happy bunnies.
>>>>> ---
>>>>>
>>>>> I spotted this looking for current examples of "getting jiggy,"
>>>>> responding to a media query about the 15th anniversary of the Will
>>>>> Smith song "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It." Though "(get) jiggy" was in the
>>>>> running for Least Likely to Succeed in the 1998 WOTY proceedings, it's
>>>>> hung around in the sexual sense -- at least among UK tabloid writers
>>>>> (of the type who would muck up a personal dative with a reflexive).
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