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- From: hhenderson@vax.clarku.edu
- Subject: Balls etc. (was Madonna's new book)
- Message-ID: <17NOV92.17123812@vax.clarku.edu>
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- Organization: Clark University
- Date: 17 NOV 92 17:12:38 GMT
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- Lori Cole writes, in reference to the eggs vs. balls discussion:
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- >Then wouldn't referring to people as having "a lot of eggs" be the
- >perfect, all-purpose, non-gendered term?!?!
-
- I have a problem with the expressions "a lot of eggs" or "a lot
- of ovaries" -- political and biological considerations aside,
- they simply don't SOUND as good as "a lot of balls". Also, "Balls!"
- is a great expletive, while "Eggs!" or "Ovaries!" just doesn't do
- much for me. Maybe I've been totalized by the hegemonic metanarrative,
- or something.
-
- There is that story about the American general whose forces were
- surrounded by Germans during the Battle of the Bulge, and who,
- when the Germans demanded his surrender, responded "Balls!"
- (or in the bowdlerized version, "Nuts!"). This always struck
- me as admirably brief. However, I later read somewhere that he
- really said "Fuck off!" which is much more to the point.
- Any of the military historians on rec.arts.books recall the name
- of this monosyllabic general, or know more about this story?
-
- Heather
- HHENDERSON@vax.clarku.edu
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