[Ads-l] a new word for a new product, but probably of limited use to most of us

George Thompson george.thompson at NYU.EDU
Wed Oct 5 23:01:05 UTC 2016


>From an article in a recent NY Times called  "Lousy Libidos: Why Do Pandas
Have So Little Sex?"  October 1, 2016, A section,  page 5.

And then there’s the innocence problem. Panda sex happens so infrequently
that the act is almost never witnessed by other pandas, leaving them with
very little notion of how to go about it, researchers say. In hopes of
cluing them in, scientists have taken to showing them “panda porn
<http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/porn-for-pandas/>.”

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-- 
George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

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