The other night Kate and I were watching that TV show about women who live in New York and drink a lot of cocktails, over which they discuss, in clinical detail, the ups and downs of their intimate lives. It stars Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis and that woman Nicolas Cage gambled away in a card game in that movie Honeymoon in Vegas. Sometimes it has cussing and nudity in it, so they don't show it on TV until late at night.

The episode Kate and I were watching was full of embarrassing conversations about people who like to do embarrassing things in their intimate lives. For example:

1. Baby-talking to an intimate partner.
2. Kissing an intimate partner on the bum.
3. Not just on the cheek either but totally bullseye if you know what I mean.
4. And sometimes not only kissing.

Ew.

So anyway, there were some funny scenes when Cynthia Nixon was having intimate time with a friend and he kept hopefully raising his nude man-bum up in the air.

And when the single women on the TV show recounted this over cocktails, they all had a good laugh calling the intimate bum-activity "tucchus lingus." But I didn't get it because I'm from Saskatchewan and am not fluent in Yiddish.

"Tucchus" is Yiddish for bum, see. Apparently they're big on Yiddish in New York. So once Kate explained that it all made sense for the TV show.

Then I asked Kate if she had heard of a more universal euphemism for the intimate bullseye kissing.

"Dating?" she suggested, helpfully.

Haw!

If you don't know why that was hilarious you have to wait for the next update.

Posted by Bret at March 3, 2003 03:56 PM