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[Tom Zurinskas]

Reminds me.  I am great uncle to my brother's kids' kids.  They call me Gruncle Tom

Tom Zurinskas,  Originally from SW Conn 20 yrs,  college NE Tenn 3,  work SE NJ  33,  resides SE Florida 18...  truespel.com






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Sent: Monday, October 23, 2023 4:48 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Subject: Re: throuple

Yes, "throuple" has come up here a couple few times before -- most recently
last year, when Daphne Preston-Kendal shared the 1994 example (from Bitnet,
not Usenet, as the Dictionary.com slang entry has it).

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On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 11:27 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Old (tricorner) hat.  It’s been around from way back in the last century,
> although it didn’t go mainstream—to the extent it has—for another 20 years.
> Seems like it’s closer to ménage à trois than to threesome, and I won’t
> touch “threelationship”.  This is from dictionary.com’s take:
>
> Evidence for _throuple_ comes as early as 1994 in an internet Usenet
> discussion of non-traditional relationships. _Throuple_ saw a smattering of
> uses online in the 2000s, but it was in 2014 that Stephen Colbert
> popularized the term on his TV show _The Colbert Report_ in a story on a
> lesbian throuple's wedding.
>
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> LH
>
> > On Oct 23, 2023, at 11:16 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > "We're a gay throuple who've spent over $170,000 on surrogacy and
> adoption
> > — there are a lot of hidden costs, and it's more expensive than you
> think"
> >
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> >
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