GR translation: a cute little private yoo-hoo for 2-hoo

[Mike Jing]

I find I'm siding with Laura on this one.  The "cute little private"
yoo-hoo is most likely between Jessica and Jeremy.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:46 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> I read the "it" that Jeremy sees as Jessica's morning sickness.
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> "Tea for Two," definitely.
> Yoo-Hoo chocolate beverage: very likely in TRP's mind c. 1970 (and quite
> possibly in the mix he wanted us to get), but I'd be surprised if it had
> enough UK presence in 1945 to be in Jeremy's
> >Jeremy... assumes this is a... nest-building moment between him and
> Jessica.
> I can't make that work, as this is the same sentence that begins with
> Jessica begging off a "romantic triangle" date --- so in "Jeremy seeing it
> as a cute little private yoo-hoo for 2-hoo," the two can only be himself
> and Roger.
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> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 12:44 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Yoo-hoo is also a chocolate drink, invented in New Jersey in the 1920s,
> and bottled and more widely distributed at some point in the 1940s (the
> history's a little murky). The slogan in the '60s was: "Me-hee for
> Yoo-hoo." Has a ring of the old song from No No Nanette, Tea For Two -
> specifically the lyrics - you for me and me for you, about setting up house
> together. So yoo-hoo for 2-hoo could be a snappier (in the 40s) version of
> "tea for two."
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> The way I read the sentence, when Jessica seems to be suffering from
> morning sickness, Roger assumes that since the baby is his, and he's on the
> outs with Jessica, that she'll figure out the most spiteful course of
> action (Abortion? Taunting him that his child will be raised by his
> rival?). Jeremy, meanwhile, is oblivious to this and assumes this is a
> cute, private tea/yoo-hoo-for-two nest-building moment between him and
> Jessica.
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> Yes, this. Especially in  1945, "for 2-hoo" also carries a parodic hint of
> saccharine pop-song lyrics ("a cottage for two," "just me and my gal," yada
> yada).
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> Jeremy, victorious, can afford to think of the encounter as a bluff manly
> best-man-won, let-bygones-be-bygones reconciliation.
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> Roger, wounded and resentful, feels that's almost as far from the truth as
> a romantic tete-a-tete would be.
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> And they settle, as men often do, for talking about safely remote and
> "objective" matters instead.
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> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
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> Yoo-hoo is something said, by some, when attracting someone they know's
> attention - a cheery hey there. So I'd hazard that P has made this an
> ironic comment on Beaver and Roger's antipathy - the two hoo is just to
> make the (cute) rhyme.
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> Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote :
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> > V709.13-25, P723.15-27   Who saves him (or interferes with his orgasm)?
> Why, Jeremy himself. Old Beaver shows up and waves off the heat, who go
> surly, fangflashing back to masturbating into Crime Does Not Pay Comics,
> gazing dreamy at guardroom pinups of J. Edgar Hoover or whatever it was
> they were up to, and the romantic triangle are suddenly all to have lunch
> together at the Club. Lunch together? Is this Noel Coward or some shit?
> Jessica at the last minute is overcome by some fictitious female syndrome
> which both men guess to be morning-sickness, Roger figuring she’ll do the
> most spiteful thing she can think of, Jeremy seeing it as a cute little
> private yoo-hoo for 2-hoo. So that leaves the fellas alone, to talk briskly
> about Operation Backfire, which is the British program to assemble some A4s
> and fire them out into the North Sea. What else are they going to talk
> about?What is "yoo-hoo for 2-hoo" exactly?
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