[Ads-l] CD title, iTunes: "Titty Shakers"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Mar 15 06:53:22 UTC 2015


Well, if "boody shakers"/"booty shakers" is all right, then why not "titty
shakers," too? When I learned them back in 1942, as a first-grader, the two
words had the same degree of obscenity. Why not the same degree of lack of
obscenity in 2015?

"Time brings about a change," to coin a phrase.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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