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From: ladkin@kestrel.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Sex is Funny to Eskimos
Message-ID: <4418@kestrel.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 17:56:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 30 17:56:17 1986
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In article <548@hounx.UUCP>, kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT) writes:
> I am told that the Eskimo word for "sex" is "iglavtiriwok".
> I am also told that the Eskimo word for "laughter" is "iglavtiriwok".
> Well, at least *some* cultures think sex is funny.
> --Barry Kort

It's probably the word for "shit". It's just that they told
you it meant "sex" and "laughter", so that you'd think they
said "that joke's so funny I could laugh all day", and
"you fair skinny people are so attractive I could make
love to you all day"