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Wednesday, May 04, 2005
More Laura:
This bit on The Corner gets to another issue in the Laura Bush monologue: Did the "milking the steed" bit imply bestiality? Or stupidity?
The Harvard professor Tom Lehrer used to tell a joke about the famous professor of animal husbandry who rose to the top of his profession before they caught him at it one day...
... but in rural Northern Michigan, where I grew up, "milking the bull/goat/steed" was the punchline to a half-dozen city-slicker/traveling salesman jokes, and the humor was not about implied bestiality, but about the kick you had coming if you grabbed 'im you know where.
posted by gbarto at 4:03 PM
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