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How to Talk Dirty and Influence People choose

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[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 27: My real reason for going to the Veteran’s Administration [...] was the 52-20 Club. The Government gave all ex-GIs $20 a week for a year or until they could find a job. The accepted smart-thing-to-do was to find an employer who didn’t report your wages [...] then you could grab the $20 plus your salary.
at 52-20 Club, n.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 60: Substituting my own knock [...] for the regular pickup man’s ‘shave-and-a-haircut’ rapping.
at shave-and-a-haircut, n.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 98: Pat and Abie and Rastus outside of Saint Peter’s gate all listening to those angels harping in stereotype.
at Abie, n.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 47: The ads and TV commercials bombard us with new things.
at ad, n.1
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 34: Passing a complete stranger and shrilling, ‘Get you, Annie!’.
at annie, n.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 34: He didn’t swish but he was sort of like an old auntie.
at auntie, n.2
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 1: Colored men are built abnormally large (‘Their wangs look like a baby’s arm with an apple in its fist.’).
at baby’s arm (n.) under baby, n.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 75: A nutty-looking chick [...] who’s a real balling freak.
at balling, n.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 85: If it was the ‘Basket Case’ (the act which had the most dramatic impact), you would get $50.
at basket case (n.) under basket, n.1
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 82: My father and I had a beef, and we left.
at beef, n.2
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 46: A couple of belts lift me out of the dumps.
at belt, n.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 70: Don’t make any dramatic gestures to those biddies.
at biddy, n.2
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 182: [She] became even bigger by playing Las Vegas in a peekaboo dress.
at big, adj.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 78: Why, that blah-blah-blah is in perfect condition.
at blah, blah, blah under blah, v.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 35: The Club Charles in Baltimore was my last bomb.
at bomb, n.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 153: She’s getting some hair on her booger.
at booger, n.2
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 88: She was really boxed — I had never seen her so drunk.
at boxed, adj.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 21: By the time they were processed, it was six months in the brig.
at brig, n.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 182: Her mother gave me the brush.
at give someone the brush(-off) (v.) under brush-off, n.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 142: The real bums you can spot. They usually have babies in their bellies — that’s the real tramps.
at bum, n.3
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 1: When you’re eight years old, nothing is any of your business.
at business, n.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 1: Aunt Mema’s Private Business, the portable bidet.
at business, n.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 104: Never chippied on your wife one time in eighteen years.
at chippie, v.2
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 17: Artie Shaw and [...] sailors sat in the fetal position with their red eyes and chapped thighs, waiting for chow to blow.
at chow, n.1
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 19: Twelve o’clock, chow: braised beef, dehydrated potatoes, spinach, coffee, cake with icing.
at chow, n.1
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 49: I grabbed one of them [...] and clipped the other one.
at clip, v.1
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 123: If anyone [...] believes that God made his body, and your body is dirty, the fault lies with the manufacturer. It’s that cold, Jim, yeah.
at cold, adj.
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 86: I would shuffle her off [...] and give her a quick con about overtime.
at con, n.1
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 57: This is not copping out on the ‘starving masses of India and China’.
at cop out, v.2
[US] L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 70: A cracked cracker voice behind me spoke up determinedly.
at cracker, adj.1
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