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Geoff
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Follow the links for "merkin" here: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=merkin
You Oz dwellers should get a laugh!


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
 
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Isn't that a George W Bushism?

"My fellow merkins..."

Is that why he's named Bush?


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
 
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"My fellow merkins..."

Remember, the US president (one of three roles played by Peter Sellers) in Dr Strangelove was named Merkin Muffley.


—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
 
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Dr Strangelove was named Merkin Muffley.

Do you think that an accident?
 
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Would be an interesting way to get rid of body lice. [You'd have to read Geoff's link to get an idea of what I'm talking about.]
 
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There's a lawyer in Chicago named Leonard Malkin I wonder if he's a friend of Bush?


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And some more fun: Etymologically speaking, prostitutes are outstanding women! http://www.etymonline.com/inde...e&allowed_in_frame=0


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Kellogg'a ia making a variation of Rice Crispies which they have named Prostitooties. The cereal doesn't snap, crackle or pop, just bangs.
 
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Speaking of merkin, I am reading a fun (not intellectual, I am sorry to say) book entitled, "The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder." I am thinking the author didn't use merkin correctly here:
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The electrocardiogram (EKG) contains an incredible amount of information. Blood comes in the top of the heart and flows out the bottom, pushed by the squeezing of the chambers, atria to ventricle. The squeeze is triggered by an electric impulse. The EKG translates those electrical pulses into a picture, drawn by an inked needle jerking across rolling paper.

Usually, Charlie explained all this as he applied the electrodes to the taut rib cages of the elderly, the dry eraser nipples, the merkin of hair.
What do you think?
 
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Obviously has no idea what it actually refers to. See this, or not.
 
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Yes, I know. Shu agrees that the author used it wrong, but I wondered if maybe we've missed something.
 
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In some places, you cannot laugh at one, not can you even giggle if if you encounter one. There is no merkin smirkin'.
 
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As the obscure Roman physician Symphysis Pubis once said, "These merkin jokes get cilia and cilia."


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merkin

Besides, the eye dialect word for American and the "pubic wig" meaning, some dictionaries list another meaning: "a mop for cleaning cannons". The things one discovers looking stuff up.


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I suspect General Hooker's merkin wearers cleaned many an artilleryman's cannon.


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