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Ansiite  #535328  Tue, 01 Jul 08 08:03 PM
Mae West: I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

How to understand this saying?

Thanks in advance!
  
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Philip  #535367  Tue, 01 Jul 08 08:42 PM
To drift = to go away from [my mind drifted, so I didn't get most of the lecture].

The title character of "Snow White" is the model of purity and innocence in American children's literature.  Mae West used to be pure, but she got away from that stage and became much less innocent.
  
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Delmobile  #535385  Tue, 01 Jul 08 09:14 PM
It's also a pun with snow, which the wind piles into drifts. White snow might drift gently onto the branches of fir trees, but this Snow White drifted into something entirely different. 
  
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