In this episode, Amy talks silliness with “goose” and Ryan trembles at the power of the powerful with “danger“.
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I must admit that I was not familiar with Amy’s reference to some of the more obscure and intimate goose-related terms. But her mention started a chain of recollections that led me to a related limerick:
A gentleman late of Calcutta
was overheard one day to mutter,
“If her Bartholin glands
Won’t respond to my hands,
I shall certainly have to use butter”