Florence King described in Southern Ladies and Gentlemen about when a Good Ol’Boy friend went with her to the drugstore( I suppose late 60's/early 70's). As he looked in disbelief at the flavored douches and sprays: “What’s wrong with pussy?”

Vinegar and tea tree oil are good for this too.

I was taught a drop at each pulse point.....what yanks my chain are the smokers who drench themselves because they’ve lost their sense of smell.

Berlin-Era Bowie-Iggy? You had a fabulous babysitter!

Sylvia Plath described Buddy’s as “turkey neck and turkey gizzard” in The Bell Jar.

Movieline magazine had a section called Bad Movies We Love, the columns of which were later collected and expanded into a book. ASP is one of them....”I want my fatha, I want my fatha!” {Yes, doll we know, but all that’s going to happen is that you’ll get knocked up by Troy}.

My parents bought my brother a box of Star Wars trading cards from Smart &Final( LA based chain something like Costco) but wouldn’t get me one of Grease’s.

In thenovelization it’s rainbow colored.

Sandra Dee’s character becomes pregnant in A Summer Place....but there’s an earlier scene where her virginity’s checked before she sleeps with Troy Donahue.

Love line was far less misogynist/homophobic when the Poorman was co-host.

Also because she has been raised to know that women are equal and acts on this knowledge.

In Norma Klein’a 1977 novel It’s OK if You Don’t Love Me( which was marketed as a mainstream book)the protagonist’s senior year private school sex ed class has a discussion about the right to say no. I don’t know whether this was Klein’s wishful thinking or something she observed.

Cleveland may have fathered a kid out of wedlock (the woman was also seeing other men who were married) and gave financial support. The chant after his first election was “Ma,Ma, where’s my pa? Gone to the White House, ha,ha,ha!”

I went to one of them about 15 years ago. When the kid came around I held out my hands to catch it and he threw it at my face. Also, I was groped as I stood in line to pay. I didn’t know at the time to slam the POS in the ribs.

Toby as a women’s name is an Anglicized version of the Hebrew name Tovah.

My guess is the reason why Simon hated them was cut.

I’ve had to deal with a Nice Guy who ignored both my noncommittal answer to his leading statement about the middle seat being empty AND my bringing out a week’s worth of the NY times as clear signals that I wasn’t in any fucking mood to talk. When I told him point blank that the fact that I was sitting near him did…

Calpurnia is treated as an adult and de facto mother figure in TKaM: there are no repercussions when she reprimands Scout for calling attention to her classmate’s drowning his lunch in molasses.

The super in my building is named Ulise (he removed the 2nd s).

It was the owner of the department store who recognized the sheets he had sold.