# Rosey fingered Dawn

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosey-fingered-dawn/593700>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 22, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosey-fingered-dawn/593700 "2011-08-22T20:40:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosey-fingered-dawn/593700/1 "2011-08-22T20:40:45Z")

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…and then Dawn fingered Rosey for a little while.

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**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosey-fingered-dawn/593700/2 "2011-08-22T20:56:20Z")

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> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#):
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> …and then Dawn fingered Rosey for a little while.

OK. And the other 589 videos on your hard drive are…?

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**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosey-fingered-dawn/593700/3 "2011-08-22T20:58:22Z")

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I’m offended at the suggestion. I’m a scholar of Homeric literature, is what I am, and I have nowhere near that number of porn videos.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosey-fingered-dawn/593700/4 "2011-08-22T20:59:26Z")

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588?

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**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosey-fingered-dawn/593700/5 "2011-08-22T20:59:45Z")

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They must not love each other.

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**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosey-fingered-dawn/593700/6 "2011-08-22T21:03:53Z")

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When your husband’s a cricket, what else are you going to do?

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**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosey-fingered-dawn/593700/7 "2011-08-22T21:07:45Z")

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If you google this phrase, as I just did, amazingly, you come up with 0 porn hits (I would have thought that was a no-brainer–apparently, porn-makers are less well-versed in the classics than I’d thought) but there is a movie about Terence Malick called “Rosy-fingered Dawn.”

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**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosey-fingered-dawn/593700/8 "2011-08-22T21:12:26Z")

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Sparta managed with 300; what do you pikers need with 590?

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosey-fingered-dawn/593700/9 "2011-08-22T21:37:57Z")

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> Rosey fingered Dawn

Be polite to Eos.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosey-fingered-dawn/593700/10 "2011-08-22T21:39:07Z")

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> Rosey fingered Dawn

Be polite to Eos.