Genital Readers
MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu
MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu
Tue Jan 14 16:28:30 CST 1997
Or how about the old Gallo (before they went upscale) wine song: "Come along with me
to the wine coun-TREE" . . .
BTW, Gallo, Starbucks, Borders . . . getting a kinda eerie feeling here.
johnny franchise
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>> [...]
>> and it is the point of the most outrageous pun in English literature.
>> When Hamlet and co. are about to watch the play-within-the-play, he asks
>> Ophelia if he may lie in her lap. When she protests, he responds, "Did you
>> think I spoke of country matters?" (emphasis on first syllable of next-to-
>> last word)
>> [...]
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>Reminds me of the juvenile snickers that used to arise with the old
>slogan: "You can take Salem out of the country, but, you can't take the
>country out of Salem."
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>Joe
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