Without additional context, I'd assume it has to do with what part of
a woman's anatomy the guy found most attractive -- if it was her
legs, he'd be a "leg-man", so a "thigh-man" would be someone who's
attracted to women with nice thighs.
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Cheers, Harvey
CanEng and BrEng, indiscriminately mixed
I agree with HVS that more context would help. Otherwise, the reader
here must assume thigh-man (in line with leg-man, ass-man, etc.)
In my undergraduate years, I had a prof who laughed at the US collegiate
fraternities and sororities (the Greeks) and called them all members of
"phi slappa thigh"--Sigma Delta Chi, Chi Rho, Lambda Sigma Chi, and all
other such were typical. "Tri Delts" were Delta Delta Delta.
That image came to my mind and I had to work my way out of that trap.
But I really don't know. That prof might not have been an originator. .
.or one of his students may have carried the term into an illustrious
life as a playwright.
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> "Alfred Epple" <afe...@t-online.de> wrote in message
> news:fjbh5c$hce$03$1...@news.t-online.com...
> > The other day a came across the word thigh-man in the movie "Dead
> > Poets
> > Society". Mr. Keating used to be a thigh-man when he was a student at
> > Welton College.
> > I couldn't find the term anywhere so maybe one of you guys could
> > enlighten me? Thanks heaps in advance!
> > Freddy
>
> I agree with HVS that more context would help. Otherwise, the reader
> here must assume thigh-man (in line with leg-man, ass-man, etc.)
This reminds me of the time when United Airlines switched
their flight attendants from short skirts to long. UAL had
had a slogan "Fly the friendly skies of United." The skirt
switch got that converted to "We can no longer eye the
friendly thighs of United."
Probably old jokes. Like "I felta thigh" and "I tappa keg."
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That's exactly it. The only context is this:
NEIL: I found his senior annual in the library.
[Neil opens the annual and reads.]
NEIL: Captain of the soccer team, editor of the annual, Cambridge bound,
Man most likely to do anything, Thigh man, Dead Poets Society.
[Hands grab the old annual away from Neil.]
CHARLIE: Thigh man? Mr. "K" was a hell raiser.
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