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Ptah

(33,032 posts) Sun Jun 9, 2013, 03:38 PM Jun 2013

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with a floy floy (Original Post) Ptah Jun 2013 OP

I vaguely recall Burt Lancaster explaining that slang in "Atlantic City." Gidney N Cloyd Jun 2013 #1

Slim was geniusahrooney Joe Shlabotnik Jun 2013 #4

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1. I vaguely recall Burt Lancaster explaining that slang in "Atlantic City."

Sun Jun 9, 2013, 03:49 PM

Jun 2013

Wish I could find a clip.

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2. The title for the 1938 The Three Stooges film, Flat Foot Stooges, is a pun on this song's title.

Sun Jun 9, 2013, 04:12 PM

Jun 2013

The song was originally called "Flat Foot Floozie", with "floy-floy" being slang for a venereal disease.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Foot_Floogie_%28with_a_Floy_Floy%29

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3. If DU had sound I could sing it for you. If I could sing any more, that is...

Sun Jun 9, 2013, 04:45 PM

Jun 2013

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4. Slim was geniusahrooney

Sun Jun 9, 2013, 07:28 PM

Jun 2013