Mason & Dixon as metaphor

Paul DiFilippo ac038 at osfn.rhilinet.gov
Mon Dec 30 16:18:18 CST 1996



Don't ask where I read this, cuz during the holly-daze all
wetware archiving facilities have been disabled, but in some
essay or another, the writer used "mason and Dixon line" more
or less as a synonym for "below the belt" concerning a sexual
matter:  as in "don't go touching yourself down below the
Mason and Dixon line."
Surely our omniscinet TRP will not let _this_ particular usage
go by!

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Paul Di Filippo&Deborah Newton/2 Poplar/Providence, RI 02906
Dada Charity:  "Clothe the hungry and feed the naked."
Capitalist Charity:  "Give the hungry clothes, the naked food,
and let them create a market economy."



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