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[Mark Mandel]

Ah, thanks.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 4:13 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> > On Feb 25, 2021, at 12:56 PM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Laurence. In one of the early posts to this thread, perhaps the
> > initial one, I was unable to decipher the mention of "wh" vs. "h" (as I
> > believe it was phrased) till I eventually got to the explicit expansion
> of
> > the expressions.
> >
> > MAM
>
> The conversation between the two coffee-shop workers in the CBC skit was
> deliberately cryptic, the point (or a point) being that one of the women
> was extremely naive and the other was familiar with, but extremely
> uncomfortable with, the expression ("whore’s bath”) involved, whence the
> indirection.  And in response to Chris Waigl’s point, neither the
> characters nor writers of the show nor I were endorsing the underlying
> misogyny.
>
> LH
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 11:32 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >>> On Feb 25, 2021, at 11:22 AM, James Landau <
> >> 00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Somewhat off topic for "horse bath":  a stockbroker told me that a
> >> narrow difference between bid and ask prices is a "wife's spread" but a
> >> wide difference is a "whore's spread”
> >>
> >> Or, more delicately if more obscurely, the difference between wife’s
> bread
> >> and horse bread.
> >>
> >> LH
> >>
> >
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