BEg2 ch 12 babe in the window?

[Mark Kohut]

Window prostitutes are not pimped (in general)....They show for themselves.

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 1:53 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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