Two wooden signposts have arrows pointing in opposite directions, with the purple arrow curling around its post.

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Howard Brackett

This is my Peter, friend Peter! We just now ran into each other, here at the intersexual . . . homosection . . . intersection!

— In & Out  ·  1997

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker is flustered while introducing a friend, and the sentence trips over itself. Reaching for 'intersection', the words stumble through 'intersexual' and 'homosection' first. The humour comes from hearing the swerves in real time as the speaker tries to sound cheerful and casual and fails.

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