Still pumpin' 'em out after all these years

[Jonathan Lighter]

Because a woman is not a hoe.

JL


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > Wilson, maybe your columnist was using the same logic as those people who
> > insist that two negatives *really* make a positive. Thus, a  / ho / is a
> > gardening implement and / dEsImet / means bumping off one in ten. Period.
> >
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> So, what makes referring to women as gardening instrument by random members
> of a maligned minority treated as a "slur" against women worthy of the
> interest to a columnist of The Boston Globe?
>
> When I was in high school, I was once startled to hear one of the other
> bruz, in a conversation wit me, refer to his girlfriend as "my whore," in
> the presence of the principal. But, of course, The Man heard only "my hoe,"
> if he even noticed it at all.
>
> Those were the good old days.
>
> Naturally, no one is perfect. This same bruh is the only person that I've
> ever heard use [b^b] to refer to the female breast. For dekkids, I was
> under the impression that he had said "bulb." Not till the coming of HDAS
> did I discover that the word is "bub."
>
> OTOH, perhaps he really *did* say "bulb."
>
> Youneverknow.
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