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#25523 04/03/2001 1:34 PM
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The opposite of "uptight" is "hang loose" which refers to the sometimes less frequent state of male anatomy.

(Discreet ladylike cough)

I heard the term in connection with surfing meaning a relaxed board-riding style on the waves.
You have given me pause.
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I heard the term in connection with surfing meaning a relaxed board-riding style on the waves. You have given me pause.

Herds of heards, I guess. Maybe let's wait for someone with an OED to hand. back at you!

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Re: "hang loose"

I think it just shows that surfboarders have more class than, say, skateboarders.


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let's wait for someone with an OED to hand

Looking up hanging in Shorter OED-CD had me in fits of very unladylike laughter as I read applying your meaning
No entry in SOED for "hang loose."
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<<Looking up hanging in Shorter OED-CD had me in fits of very unladylike laughter as I read applying your meaning>>

You're being horribly unfair; do Tell!


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You're being horribly unfair; do Tell!

Just look up "hang" both noun and verb definitions in any dictionary and overlay thoughts of the male "dangly bits" ...

Your High Priestess is off to sweep out and clean up the temple of the Great and Mighty Anu, that is to say her mind.
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"To stand united; stick together: “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately”

I remember seeing a bumper sticker showing a pair of mallards flying in flagrante delicto, with caption
"FLY UNITED"


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Bridge,

laughed aloud, thanks for the defs!

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Offhand, I can't think of a use for 'hang' in this context, except in the slangy greeting from one man to another, "How are they hanging?". However, in the past or participial form, you have 'Hung like a bull/horse' or similar expressions.

Incidentally, ladies, please inform us men: Would you consider the state of being hung like a horse to be the male equivalent of a woman having bodacious tatas?


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bodacious tatas?

Oy.


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Re: "Bodacious" I remember a comic strip featuring a mountain character called Snuffy Smith, who I think either invented the word, or at least first widely circulated it about fifty years ago. It was a superlative, but not necessarily complimentary.Somehow I would not regard it as an endearing term to apply to physique of an attractive woman.


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Bodacious tatas?!?!

All right! That's IT! All of you boys, off my thread at once!

[trying to maintain severe demeanor while doubled up screaming with laughter emoticon]


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Bobyoungbalt dangled this in front of us: Incidentally, ladies, please inform us men: Would you consider the state of being hung like a horse to be the male equivalent of a woman having bodacious tatas?

So Bob, let me get this straight... you're asking us if size matters?

Where's the gutter police when she's clearly needed!

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"Bobyoungbalt dangled this in front of us"
What is "this"?
Who dangled what?

There used to be a maxim that the angle of dangle was proportional to the heat of the m... and the m... of the a..

Size matters only to another horse.


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Dr. Bob* contributes (sic): There used to be a maxim that the angle of dangle was proportional to the heat of the m... and the m... of the a..

Happens I've got a recording (LP no less) of the Mass of the Ass (that's Missa Asini for you Latin scholars out there). Just thought I'd mention it.

*Oh, oops. That's Dr. Bill, in't it. I bin callin you Dr. Bob fer some time now, ain' I Dr. Bill. Sarry bout that.

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Now, once and for all :
It's not the size of the er, um, "tool" it's how well you use it.

Why do I think of the old saying : "A poor carpenter will always blame his tools."

This is really not a proper line of thought for a High Priestess!
(I'm right there with you, Rapunzel! )
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bodacious tatas
You're correct, Bill, about Snuffy Smif. 'Bodacious' was coupled with 'tatas' by the 2nd male lead character in the movie, An Officer and a Gentlemen since which time it has entered the vocabulary (of some persons, at least).


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Dear Bob: Some surprising things come up when you type "Bodacious tatas" in Yahoo search box.

I saw that movie so long ago all I remember is opening with father having taken son to a whorehouse. Somehow the idea did not appeal to me.


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Well, there is the thought that the best things come in small packages--

A kind lover remarked that a perfect breast should fill a champange glass (the old fashioned american "saucer" kind, not the continental flute) not a punch bowl. and while he didn't know the word callipygian--his kind remarks about larger parts of my anatomy (significantly larger!) still make me feel good about myself!


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And the definition of surplus is that part of the mammary gland that the mouth cannot take in.


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A kind lover remarked that a perfect breast should fill a champagne glass(the old fashioned american "saucer" kind, not the continental flute) not a punch bowl.


Your mention of the "wrong" champagne glasses (and even this teetotaller knows that champagne should be drunk from flutes), reminded me of Marie Antoinette.
http://www.lineone.net/express/99/12/27/features/fcolasher-d.html

http://wine.wsj.com/SB958149561337335463-SB961089152541977734.html


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surplus is that part of the mammary gland that the mouth cannot take in.

....unless you respond to a challenge.




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