BEg2 ch 12 babe in the window?

[Michael Bailey]

Yeah but Gabriel isn’t pimping her, he’s just keeping her out of the
business loop. So how does that compute?

Babe in the woods, yes…

I know the babe reference plays into her mannerisms and speech becoming
more childish as she tries to lure Maxine into accepting an assignment
that’s probably a trap - feigning innocence very unconvincingly —- but I
would like it if there were some archetypal baby in an archetypal window -
maybe a Grimm fairy tale - that she’s expecting Maxine to know about.


Ear worm warning:


All I can think of is “how much is that doggie in the window?”


On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 4:44 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_prostitution
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 3:52 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Tallis: “I’m supposed to be the comptroller, but when I bring any of it up
>> with Gabe, he gets evasive. I’m beginning to feel like the babe in the
>> window.”
>>
>> Is “babe in the window” a thing?
>>
>>
>> Paucity of Google results, like 10 references to the same line in a song
>> by
>> Coffee Boi which didn’t come out till 2018 -
>>
>> And 1 to a cartoon of a “babe” (attractive woman) standing in a window and
>> making a naive comment about the neighbor’s interest in telescopes
>>
>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/362719091129
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