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

[Joel Berson]

Now perhaps someone can take it back to having been applied to Cato?

Joel

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Excellent find, LH. Here is an excerpt from a book with a 1977 GB
date. (Now, I see that Ben has already replied. But the slightly
longer excerpt might be useful.)

Year: 1977
Title: Promises to Keep: Carter's First Hundred Days
Author: Robert Shogan
Quote Page 43
Database: Google Books snippet; data may be inaccurate and should be
verified on paper

[Begin excerpt]
The critics replied that Carter's fault was not that he had too few
positions on issues — but rather that he had too many positions on
each issue. "He has more positions than the Kama Sutra," Mark Shields,
one of Morris Udall's advisers, wisecracked.
[End excerpt]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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