fapp and phallologocentrism

[Jonathan Lighter]

Obviously you're warm.

JL

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> On Sep 12, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > Brain-twister:
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> > Both "fingerbang" and "LSMFT" can be found in what major reference =
> work?
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> > (Cue "The Syncopated Clock.")
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> > JL
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> Is it one that could also have included "diddle" and "jill off" but =
> couldn't have included "shlick", "tuning the piano" or "playing the =
> clitar" (unless it was under the "clitar" lemma)?  I think I'm narrowing =
> down.
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> LH
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> P.S.  According to my sources (urbandic, of course), LSMFT can also be =
> unpacked as "Let's Screw, My Finger's Tired".  More optimistic than the =
> version below, as befitting the allusion to lucky strikes.
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> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:56 AM, David Daniel =
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> >>>> finger-bang
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> >> This engendered the famous "LSMFT" (Let's stop my finger's tired)
> >> DAD
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> >>> I know this term only from a "South Park" episode in which it was =
> made
> >>> quite clear that "finger-bang" is the activity that I've known as
> >>> "finger-fuck" since the Creation.
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> >>> BTW, is the question re *male* terms for female masturbation? *All* =
> the
> >>> terms that I know for this activity are used only by guys, in my
> >>> experience, with a single exception: "jill off." I came across it =
> first in
> >>> a feminist essay somewhere - Widener Library? -
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> >> By "essay", do you mean "endeavor", there in the darkness and
> >> solitude of the stacks?
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> >> JSB
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> >>> somewhen - the '70's? - and
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