[Ads-l] QOTY? multiple positions (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Ben Zimmer]

In Robert Shogan's _Promises To Keep: Carter's First Hundred Days_ (1977),
it's credited to Mark Shields, who was an adviser to Mo Udall in the '76
campaign.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Xpx4AAAAMAAJ&q=%22kama+sutra%22

Interestingly, it was Shields who later attributed the line to Huckabee re
Romney.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Here's one in which it's reported as having been used to describe Jimmy
> Carter, so back to the late 70s or so:
> http://tinyurl.com/jn2oacp
>
> Appropriate, I suppose, given the Lto-do about Carter's admission during
> one of the debates that he "lusted after women in [his] heart".
>
>
> > On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
> william.d.mullins18.civ at MAIL.MIL> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> The dates below suggest a shift from squid to humans rather than the
> other way 'round.
> >>
> >> I would be very interested in the earliest application(s) to
> politicians, however.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Elyria OH _Chronicle-Telegram _  27 Feb 1983 p B2 col 3 [
> newspaperarchive.com]
> > [syndicated column, referring to Gary Hart]
> > "He has more positions than the Kama Sutra."
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>      From: ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
> >> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:44 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] QOTY? multiple positions
> >>
> >> Bill Mullins wrote
> >>> _Chicago Tribune_ 3 Dec 1982 sec 3 p 13 col 2 [article about martial
> >>> arts studio] "They fight with everything at Degerberg; all parts of
> >>> the body in more positions than the Kama Sutra."
> >>
> >> Below is an instance of the phrase in 1981. The domain of application
> was shifted from humans to squid.
> >>
> >> Date: July 31, 1981
> >> Newspaper: Santa Cruz Sentinel
> >> Newspaper Location: Santa Cruz, California
> >> Article: Squid: From Bait to Plate
> >> Author: Greg Beebe (Sentinel Staff Writer) (Continuation title) From
> Bait to Plate Start Page 17, Quote Page 26
> >> Database: Newspapers.com
> >>
> >> [Begin excerpt]
> >> "Did you know that squid have both male and female sex organs? How
> kinky."
> >> "Squid are instinctively driven — they have to mate. They have these
> 72-hour sex marathons. Each has 10 arms and tentacles — hey, that's
> >> more positions than the Kama Sutra. When they're through, they're so
> exhausted the fishermen just pick 'em up off the surface of the sea."
> >> [End excerpt]
> >>
> >
>

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