Re: Two Articles about What Brits Know (or Don't)...

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 11:30:46 +0200, netcat
<netcat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Knowing literature would tell you the origin of the term, but the 
>meaning itself should be clear to anyone who's ever received porn-
>related spam or stumbled onto a dirty website.

My own favourite example of evidence that "Lolita" is a part of the
cultural background is a Phil Foglio script for a "Plastic Man" comic:

Someone is murdering designer-jean designers (all of whom are
caricatures of real designers); one of the designers caricatured is
"Melvin Klone", whose spokesmodel is teen actress Snookie Yields.

Snookie Yields is represented by the firm of Humbert, Humbert, Humbert
& Polanski.