[SPAM:###] Re: "Moby sex"?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Tons of sex = lots.

Of course, to better understand what was meant, we need more exx. of "moby"
in similar constructions.

JL


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

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> On Oct 29, 2013, at 6:58 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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> > I think they had "lots of" sex, not "big" sex.
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> > "Big sale" and "big scandal" are idiomatic to me, but "big sex" is not.
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> it looks like "Moby sex" has been extended in pretty much every way you
> could image -- for sex with lots of people, for spectacular sex, and for
> sex with big women.  the constant is amount/size.
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> arnold
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