More Butter-Bad Jokes

[gilly at netcomuk.co.uk]

Steven Maas (CUTR) wrote:
> 
> David Gilligan wrote:
> 
> > However, according to Diedrich Knickerbocker in the History of New York
> > (1809), *butter-bags* refers to men who jog around in shorts that are
> > much too big for them (p.538).
> 
> Much preferable to modern-day Florida, where pot-bellied 70 yr old men
> (and women) jog around in T-backs.  I won't say what people call them.
> 
> DK was Washington Irving (or is that Irving Washington?), I believe.
> 
>         Steve Maas

'Course I knew that silly. 
But I think Irvington Wash is really, really Tom Pynchon (sometimes known 
as Rip Van Winkle).

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david gilligan