[lit-ideas] Re: Where did they go?
- From: "Paul Stone" <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:50:49 -0400
>
> Mike: (2) the comment when we were talking about breasts and someone used
> the term
> genitalia to refer to the breasts and I responded that I'd never thought
> of
> breasts as genitalia and Bill Ball riposted: "Me neither, Mike. I've
> always
> thought of them as cookies." I laughed for 3 weeks. It still makes me
> laugh. Yes. Exactly. It is so wholesomely non-sexist, but at the same
> time, such a poignant expression of male oral fixations, delectable
> fixations, mind you. All praise to Bill Ball for his lovely terminology.
> Let us hear more.
>
My favourite was in a post-script in '98 when Bill filled us in:
P.S. Today is my wife's 38th wedding anniversary.
I STILL recall that witticism when other couples tell me they are
"celebrating" their anniversary.
paul
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