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- From: dh0a@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DONALD L. HARDY)
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- Subject: Bimbos I have known (Was re: is the bimbo...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.160238.51136@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:02:38 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- >hoosiers@carson.u.washingto n.edu (Mary Loveless) writes:
- >>John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305 says:
- >>I'm beginning to get it. Is a bimbo what a Valley girl become when
- >>she drops out of high school?
- >>>It seems that the use of bimbo to refer to males is not in popular
- >>use.
- >How true, as the Valley girl would say in the margin of her Harlequin
- >Romance. But couldn't Joseph Andrews or Candide be referred to as Bimbos,
- >if such were accepted usage?
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- PG Wodehouse uses the term "bimbo" primarily to refer to men. I fact, I
- don't recall him ever using it about a woman. It is generally an older
- fellow, given to pottering about in a cheerful and absent minded fashion.
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- D.
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