[Ads-l] Notable? Or blah?

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Dec 25 14:33:40 UTC 2022


It was actually May 30's NYer.

JL

On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 3:57 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Notable to me, anyway. The "lightly challenging" crossword in last May
> 22's New Yorker includes the clue-answer combo:
>
> "Yuck someone's yum, sexually  ... [Ans.:]  kinkshame."
>
> A quick Goog search finds 14,000,000 raw hits for "kinkshame/ kinkshaming."
>
> My fave, from 2016, is the headline, "Don't Kink-Shame Kanye."
>
> Among 69,000 Google hits, Urban D has "Don't yuck my yum" from 2008.
> Non-sexually.
>
> Merry Holidays! Faboo Festivus! Regardless!
>
> JL
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>


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