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	sequinedlizard 2007-02-10 11:28 pm UTC (link)
	I haven't read Brave New World yet either, just never really struck my fancy. But..yeah. 'Tis painful to watch some of the justifications going on over there. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wankaholic 2007-02-10 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	It wasn't that s/he hadn't read it; it was that they'd never heard of it, and yet were proud of their ignorance. D: (Reply to this)(Parent)

(Anonymous)
2007-02-10 11:48 pm UTC (link)

I *have* read BNW, don't remember pneumatic being used in it, do remember reading about 'pneumatic blondes' in just about any hardboiled detective work ever. All this 'But Brave New World wasn't on our curriculum!!' wailing seems a total red herring, given the Merriam Webster cite someone included. Standard usage, guys; standard usage.
-flemmings

(I almost wrote 'hardboiled dick' there and now my mind has followed that image into the gutter and down the sewer opening.)

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	nymeria 2007-02-11 12:11 am UTC (link)
	I like you and your sewer-residing mind. Want an account? ps wanna also buy a rolex? don't mind the green stuff around the edges. 's a new look. Yeah. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	the_mouse 2007-02-11 03:22 am UTC (link)
	It is used in BNW, because that's where I first encountered the term. (Hee!) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ecchaniz0r 2007-02-11 06:15 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. I think wossname, Lenina(?) is called pneumatic, because of her exquisite bosoomers. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	the_mouse 2007-02-11 10:58 pm UTC (link)
	It's the lady who the guy who was ugly was hanging out with. Heh. Bosoomers. I need to find a way to work it into a conversation. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	frenzy 2007-02-11 08:39 am UTC (link)
	Hey, me too! And I even looked it up, and found basically the same definitions as the OP did. I was so damn confused. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	the_mouse 2007-02-11 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	When I first read it I thought it had something to do with pneumonia... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	scarah2 2007-02-11 11:35 am UTC (link)
	I keep parsing "BNW" as "Big Name Wanker." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rachel_pi 2007-02-12 02:35 am UTC (link)
	Huxley uses it a LOT, too. I think BNW is also where I learned "brachycephalic". I ♥ that book. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2007-02-13 04:30 am UTC (link)
	I learned that from The man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie... I think.. It could have been one of her other books though. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jat_sapphire 2007-02-16 12:13 am UTC (link)
	It's a plot point in TMitBS, though, so it's the most likely one. remembers looking it up (Reply to this)(Parent)

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