[Ads-l] an obscenity getsa new meaning

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 6:50 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> HDAS files lack "pussy cap" entirely.


FWIW, so does my memory.

http://www.pussycap.com

Adventure - Volume 30, Issue 4 - Page 99
https://books.google.com/books?id=JGRDAQAAMAAJ
1921 - ‎Read - ‎More editions
“Old Obediah E. T. Jones was also present, dolled up in his _pussy-cap_ and
Summer suit o' dungarees and riding old Marigold who was cuttin' curves
through the mesquite, like a haughty buck-rabbit, on her new gum-shoes.

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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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