Gingerbread office was an eighteenth-century slang term for public toilets, which were, Norton argues, meeting places for homosexuals to engage in sexual encounters. Gingerbread-kake and ginger-bred queen suggest what may happen in the office and name those involved.

The story does not seem to have been widely picked up.

His two-seamer has some heavy sink.

She seemed like she should be accompanied by one of those miniature dogs with a bow in its hair and a heart rate of 1,000 beats per minute and should carry one of those little rhinestone purses that couldn't possibly hold more than a lipstick and a love glove.