[Ads-l] "prostitute/whore with a heart of gold"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Interesting, Garson, to see the phrase slowly evolve into a familiar
cliche' or set of cliche's.

Also that the type was a stock character even by ca1940.

JL

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > All the exx. appear to describe fictional characters. (Well, duh!).
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> "Duh," indeed! No *real* whore has any choice but to get her pimp "his"
> money, unless she wants him to have to use his pimp-stick - not to be
> confused with a "pimp cane" - to "straighten her (ass) out."
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> "{"Straighten out" reminds me of "stretch out," known to both my wife -
> from NEPA - and to me - from NETX - as meaning, "lie down for a nap." OTOH,
> in Los Angeles, "be stretched out" is/was?* "work hard at manual labor."
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> *I sometimes forget that what "seems like only yesterday" may well be 75
> years ago.
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