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#157935 04/03/06 12:46 PM
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There is a young man named René
With an unconventional way
Of washing his crotch
With twelve-year-old scotch
That sprays from his porcelain bidet

And sometimes just for the laugh of it
He washes instead with aquavit
Or, when duty calls,
He has bourbon balls
Really, you don't know the half of it

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#157936 04/03/06 05:03 PM
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And now, there's new meaning to "wine spritzer".

#157937 04/03/06 08:23 PM
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Spritzer? I hardly know her!

#157938 04/03/06 09:03 PM
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One daughter asked me to write some haiku a few years ago. (The teacher wanted stuff from kids and their parents.) I suggested the following:

My butt is quite sore.
Sandpaper toilet paper
doesn't help at all.

My daughter was not amused and glaringly refused to submit my contribution, accepting instead the much inferior:

Though fear and terror
girdle the bright, red planet,
wonder rides its wake.

#157939 04/03/06 10:28 PM
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Reminds me of the story of the Hopi who drove his pickem truck down to the res store, parked in a cloud of dust, and told the proprietor that he needed some toilet paper. The storekeeper placed two rolls of TP on the counter, one a brand name and the other a generic.

The Hopi asked what the difference was, and was told that there wasn't any appreciable difference other than no brand name and a smaller price for the generic because there was no advertising overhead. The Indian bought the generic and departed, only to return two or three days later.

"Gus, you need to call that stuff John Wayne toilet paper," said the Indian.

"Why?" asked Gus.

"Because it's rough and it's tough and it don't take s--t offa no Indians."


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dkr: Most definitely yes

Though you won't find much support for it in the usu Internet dicttionaries, I have herd "to water" meaning exactly what you intend, as in:

Romeo and Juliet, the Beginning - 9:04amWatered him at the bar or shall I steal some food from the children for him?" William ran up to her and grabbed her hand, and with a flourish, kissed It. ...
www.austen.com/ani/stories/carmel3.htm

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