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#402 - 03/17/00 08:51 AM origin of "pink fit"
lpuszcz stranger Registered: 03/16/00 Posts: 2	I came across the expression "pink fit" in a book the other day. Any ideas as to where this expression came from?
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#403 - 03/22/00 07:40 PM Re: origin of "pink fit"
jmh Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/22/00 Posts: 1981	Could it be the opposite of "blue fit"
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#404 - 03/23/00 05:06 PM Re: origin of "pink fit"
MarkHJay stranger Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6 Loc: Short Hills NJ	I have read this expression in an old (1940's? 1950?) book. In context, it meant an overstated and exaggeratedly gay expostulation. "Pink" was a perjorative way to refer to a gay male. In the 1940's/1950's, gay women had yet to be invented ....
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#405 - 03/24/00 09:19 AM Re: origin of "pink fit"
conscious stranger Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 7	How about pink fit referring to the fact that when one is having one, his/her face becomes pink/red with anger? Sounds plausible.
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