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#42462 09/26/01 09:32 PM
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Well, which is it, Consuelo? First you said horny; then you said particular.
Perhaps you mean "particularly horny"?


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Are you doing research on the subject Keiva?

I thought you were involved with real estate. Or is this a sideline?


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Research, dear Helen? A gentleman never tells. (and not )

(Do forgive me if real estate has kept me preoccupied of late. I've had a lot on my mind.)

Your question recalls the story where a gentleman at a cocktail party, after speaking with a young lady on an extremely friendly basis, noted his wife's acid stare. "Don't worry, dear," he assured her, "she's merely a professional acquaintance." "Really?" replied his wife, "Your profession, or hers?"

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Nosy little bustard isn't he?


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It's a three-holer
For family use?
I seem to remember the Romans enjoyed(?) communal facilities seating up to 20 at a time.

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#42468 10/10/01 11:52 PM
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In Oz we call Black Widow spiders Redbacks (or, by some oldsters, Jockey Spiders)- they're the same apecies as the North American one. They seem to share a similar preference for where they live in both continents. Thanks for that export America!

MAny years ago there was a song called "Redback On The Toilet Seat" that went really well on the charts. Don't remember all the words, but it started something like:

There was a redback on the toilet seat
when I was there last night,
I didn't see it in the dark,
But Christ I felt its bite!


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Saved by good old Google again...

THE REDBACK ON THE TOILET SEAT
by Slim Newton

There was a redback on the toilet seat
When I was there last night.
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy I felt his bite.
I jumped high up into the air
And when I hit the ground,
That crafty redback spider
Wasn't nowhere to be found.

I rushed into the missus,
Told her just where I'd been bit.
She grabbed a cut-throat razor-blade
And I nearly took a fit.

I said, "Just forget what's on your mind
And call a doctor please,
'Cause I got a feeling that your cure
Is worse than the disease."

There was a redback on the toilet seat
When I was there last night.
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy I felt his bite.

And now I'm here in hospital
A sad and sorry sight,
And I curse the redback spider
On the toilet seat last night.

I can't lie down, I can't sit up
And I don't know what to do,
And all the nurses think it's funny
But that's not my point of view.

I tell you its embarassing,
And that's to say the least,
That I'm too sick to eat a bit
While that spider had a feast.

And when I get back home again
I tell you what I'll do,
I'll make that redback suffer
For the pain I'm going through.

I've had so many needles
That I'm looking like a sieve,
And I promise you that spider
Hasn't very long to live.

There was a redback on the toilet seat
When I was there last night.
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy I felt his bite.

But now I'm here in hospital
A sad and sorry sight,
And I curse the redback spider
On the toilet seat last night.


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I've only heard outhouse used as a euphemistic rendering - the correct phrase is, indeed, sh*thouse.

However, I've never heard it used of a well-endowed woman - it's always used to refer to someone with excessive muscle development - another phrase is: "you know, big guy, muscles on his spit."

Do, or do not. There is no "try".

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the correct phrase is, indeed, sh*thouse. (my emphasis)

Welcome, Yoda. If I have learnt anything on this board, it is this: there is no such thing as no such thing.

There *is definitely a legitimate word 'outhouse' - it describes typically the outbuildings surrounding a courtyard in a mansion, and by extension almost any buildings subsidiary in function to a main dwelling. True, I used it here as a jokey leg-pull replacement for 'shithouse' - because there was an ongoing line of discussion about the proprieties of such blunt use of language. see the trouble you get me into, J?!


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