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#86126 11/07/2002 2:04 PM
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Yesterday's taboo is today's fetish.


#86127 11/07/2002 8:07 PM
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It's true. I have a fetish for wearing white pants after Labor Day.


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Isn't a "taboo" a kind of cat that sneaks up behind you on Halloween and pounces when you aren't expecting it?


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I have a fetish for wearing white pants after Labor Day.

Umm. Now that's obscure. Must be a local custom. Do you wear them outside your tights or under your trousers?



#86130 11/08/2002 1:12 PM
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Well the joke is... (and it will be SO funny once I explain it...) that wearing white pants after labor day is considered a fashion faux pas according to older "rules" of fashion (back in the era when women didn't go outside without wearing gloves, etc). So I guess the humor was supposed to lie in elevating that to a bona fide taboo and also making it a fetish... ah never mind!


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obscure...joke

Or either we have a cross-pondial difference in meaning of pants. USns wears 'em on the outside, over our grundies.


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Well, yes, while seeking info' I was, too, making a joke referring to the transpondial difference in usage of the term 'pants' and also dragging Superman into it. I agree with Alex, all jokes are much funnier once explained.


#86133 11/08/2002 6:01 PM
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Ah yes, I fell into a sort of sarchasm didn't I? More like a facetious-chasm, which while not nearly as witty-sounding is much less dangerous than a sarchasm. Oh well, that's what I get for trying to engage in repartee before a proper cup of coffee.


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Dear Alex: ever experience a spasm in the chasm? Mild = exquisite, Severe = excruciating.
Or so I was told.


#86135 11/08/2002 6:09 PM
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re:Ah yes, I fell into a sort of sarchasm didn't I?
was it deep sarchasm? did you fall far?
oh, no i am sure you are wrong.. jokes really are so much better when they are explained, wrong!

i cna't typpe any more, i am laugghign to hrd!



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