Last night, it was so cold, the flashers in New York were only describing themselves. (Johnny Carson)
2007-03-29 14:52:31 · 10 answers · asked by caffeinated052 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
A flasher is a person (usually a man) who walks around wearing only a trench coat. Whenever he feels like it he 'flashes' someone by ripping open his coat and showing off his natural endowments.
So if it was so cold that the flashers weren't opening their jackets, they were just 'describing themselves', it had to be pretty cold!
I love Johnny Carson!
Jen
2007-03-29 14:57:23 · answer #1 · answered by InstructNut 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The quote means that the people who were "flashers" in New York City were only describing themselves rather than actually "flashing" because it was so cold.
2007-03-29 14:56:29 · answer #2 · answered by kale_ewart 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming you know what a "flasher" is...
the "stereotypical" flasher wears a trench coat (and only a trench coat) and when he wants to show whats under neath to an unsuspecting individual, he opens the coat quickly to reveal his body, as it were...thus "Flashing"
Well, I'd say if the flasher has to describe his person to a victim, then the weather outside must REALLY be cold !
Does any of this yammering make sense?
2007-03-29 15:02:35 · answer #3 · answered by doug 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Flashers are people who expose their private parts to strangers on the street in an effort to shock them. If it is really cold, no one would want to expose their bodies to the freezing air, so the joke is that they would describe what they look like, rather than showing people.
2007-03-29 14:56:35 · answer #4 · answered by neniaf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Johnny Carson was a late night talk show host in NYC (Manhattan).
NYC used to be quite the bizarre place to be.
Flashers were usually men who walked around 'exposing' themselves to women. Often they only wore a overcoat with nothing underneath.
So you can imagine the circumstance of a man opening his overcoat when its cold outside having nothing underneath.
Thus the joke.
2007-03-29 15:02:28 · answer #5 · answered by Double O 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Flashers are people who reveal their, umm, private parts in public to random passersby. However, in this quote, it's so cold, they preferred to keep covered up and just described themselves.
2007-03-29 14:57:23 · answer #6 · answered by zanthur2004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Flashers" walked around exposing themselves in public... the fact that it was too cold for them to do that left them relying on words instead.
I hope that helped!
2007-03-29 15:03:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they were too cold to open their coats to expose themselves to men. So they are just explaining their private parts to people instead of showing them! :-)
2007-03-29 14:57:00 · answer #8 · answered by Doni 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that it was so cold that they didnt want to open their coats to flash someone. so they described themselves to victims.
2007-03-29 14:56:23 · answer #9 · answered by David P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means that it was to cold to take their cloths off and exposed themselves
2007-03-29 14:56:10 · answer #10 · answered by dtb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋