#42462
09/26/2001 9:32 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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#42463
09/27/2001 1:37 PM
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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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#42464
09/27/2001 3:46 PM
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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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#42465
09/27/2001 9:52 PM
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Nosy little bustard isn't he? 
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#42466
10/09/2001 3:09 AM
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It's a three-holerFor family use?I seem to remember the Romans enjoyed(?) communal facilities seating up to 20 at a time.http://www.zoomnet.net/~petecol/service.html#bare
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#42467
10/10/2001 10:00 PM
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#42468
10/10/2001 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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#42469
10/10/2001 11:55 PM
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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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#42470
10/11/2001 9:23 AM
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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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#42471
10/11/2001 11:12 AM
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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 'sh ithouse' - 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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#42472
10/11/2001 11:44 AM
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mav--grr.
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#42473
10/11/2001 12:04 PM
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alright, already! I'll ed*t th* bl**dy w*rd, w*ll th*t m*k* y** h*pp*?! *EG*
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#42474
10/11/2001 12:28 PM
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Yeah, I know "outhouse" is a legitimate word. Perhaps "correct" was too strong a term, but in the context of that particular phrase, in approximately 40 years of my hearing/using it, the polite form has always been used with a touch of the "I'm toning this down" inflexion. Possibly it was originally "outhouse" and got changed by folk of a more robust vocabulary.
I stand by only ever having heard the phrase used in reference to a well-muscled personage, though.
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#42475
10/11/2001 12:43 PM
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Very wise you may be, Yoda, but universal your experience is not. The meaning of built like a brick drithouse as synonym for well-muscled, despite its more sense making, have I never heard. For a well proportioned female only have I heard it.
Valued your input is, though.
This is the last time I'll talk like this, honest, guys.
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#42476
10/11/2001 12:49 PM
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ROFL Faldage!!
Kill me that you do!!
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#42477
10/11/2001 2:23 PM
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mav, ahem--that grr was for your sentence in white...
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#42478
10/11/2001 2:40 PM
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Kill me that you do!!
To AnnaStrophic am I pledged.
OK, so lie I did.
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#42479
10/11/2001 2:49 PM
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You have to remember that I've been stuck in a shack on Dagobah for the last twenty years. BTW, I don't do the fractured grammar, or the Fozzie Bear voice. I was given this nickname by members of another forum, and I decided to use it whenever I could.
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#42480
10/11/2001 3:18 PM
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mav, agree with you I do.
(or ought I to say instead, *gr** w*th y** I d*)
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#42481
10/11/2001 3:55 PM
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[blue](or ought I to say instead, *gr** w*th y** I d*)[/blue]
Or, better *gr** w*th y** * d*
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#42482
10/11/2001 5:06 PM
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a well-proportioned female, said faldage in a time long ago and a place far away.
amusing this is,
but more amusing than a female well-proportioned is it?
subject changed wisely have we?
Edit: or concepts combining are we of females constructed outhousely and inverted yoda-esquely?
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#42483
10/12/2001 1:11 AM
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#42484
10/12/2001 3:10 AM
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I thought you were going to introduce us to a naval concept, sailor! Oh, wait . I get it. One holer, head. Nah, better go down with the ship
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#42485
10/12/2001 10:04 AM
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In reply to:
you could tell if it had been a very cold night because the pee would freeze.
He may not have been kidding. I remember travelling by car from Lancaster to London one very cold winter and stopping at a petrol station to fill up the petrol tank and go to the loo, and the dregs in the urinals were frozen over.
Bingley
Bingley
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#42486
10/12/2001 11:36 AM
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yeah, I knew it was Jackie... so, do you think I should share who the scandalous original post to me was from? [whistling jauntily] And Yoda, I'm with you, bro - apart from some aberrent Merkin usage the BS phrase of course refers to a bruising alpha male built for battle
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#42487
10/12/2001 12:06 PM
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I don't care, DM. [blowing kiss e] Um--let's see, I have lately posted about trays, tea breaks, and purposely/purposefully; again, what sorts of word posts is it that I "owe"? I hope you don't mean information-giving,
'cause compared to most folks here, I don't know nothin'.
Oh--just got inspired to make one--let's see, we're even in the right category. Here, we use the shortened-term "demo"
primarily to refer to things. That is, if you tell me your new car was a demo, I know it was one they had let prospective buyers drive. But a Brit-speaker friend uses it to mean people demonstrating, as in, "There was a demo near downtown this afternoon". Is that common, over there?Or even elsewhere in the U.S.?
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#42488
10/12/2001 12:10 PM
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some aberrent Merkin usage
Keerful thar, mav. You gone is git them English school boys to gigglin agin.
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#42489
10/12/2001 12:26 PM
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That's an interesting one Jackie. I suspect there is also an age factor at work: demo could well be 'a popular demonstration', but it is redolent of the sixties for me. Otherwise I would tend to hear it as 'a demonstration' of how something worked, an exemplar. But I'll be so glad to get the car I won't care if it's *your kind of demo and sorry I am for the other, F!
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#42490
10/12/2001 6:01 PM
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I believe that "demo" is used to describe an audition tape made by musicians to send to prospective producers. If Musick is still around, he could advise.
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#42491
10/12/2001 6:15 PM
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yes, that's true Bob - I used to get hundreds of tapes sent to me to audition acts for a theatre, and we always referred to them on the phone as "demos".
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#42492
10/12/2001 6:43 PM
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Jack London, in one of his short stories, (To Build a Fire?) spoke about the cold in the yukon -- and spoke of informal thermometers, such as it being cold enough for a wad of spite to freeze into a ball before it hit the ground, or of urine freezing before it hit the ground.. maybe this belongs in the "how cold is it thread"..
and Mc Phee (First name?) a writer for The NYer, wrote about the cold of his childhood, and how once his diapered brother was frozen to the floor when he wet himself.
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#42493
10/12/2001 8:31 PM
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Was there a "Susie" with you at the time? The "brick outhouse" comments do not seem to provide much elucidation, do they? But the meaning of the phrase "built like a brick s**t house does provoke interest, does it not, Maverick? BTW, what "bidding gadgets" were you talking about when you sent me your welcoming email. BTW, Pluto is a planet. I'm Plutarch.
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#42494
10/12/2001 11:15 PM
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#42495
10/13/2001 2:18 AM
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#42496
10/13/2001 8:57 AM
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No way, dubbledub! The essence is not the *roof, pitched or otherwise: the sense of the simile lies in the solidity, in the slab-sidedness, in the sheer *mass of its BRICK contruction! It's gotta be a male thang! Hey, Plut, it was just an arch joke - and I thought you played Bridge? In answer to your query, no, I had a complete absence of Susie on my person at the time I was so accosted - I don't know Susie like my friend knows Susie. The phrase came out at me out of left field in Kentucky.
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#42497
10/13/2001 10:00 AM
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Does this subject line worry anyone else?
OK, go murder the duke, and I'll escape to France and see what I can do to those infernal musketeers
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#42498
10/13/2001 2:39 PM
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Now out here in Virginia, we only refer to these referenced structures as outhouses. The expletive part I've never heard in polite, country conversation. (Or impolite, come to think of it.)
To this ear, the former ("outhouse") is a polite and somewhat effete euphemism, the latter being the basic form.
Possibly WW and I differ on this because men are more given to euphemistic speech-forms when ladies, like WW, are present. ("When nature is calling, plain speaking is out / If ladies, lord love 'em, are milling about.") Perhaps this is a simple case of the familiar maxim, "Circumstances alter cusses."
"brick" __-house, implying: She's also got her feet firmly planted, if not on, in the ground. She's unshakable. ... Mae West comes to mind.
Here the analogy breaks down a bit. Mae's persona was unshakable but, unlike a brick structure, was emphatically not untippable.
In short, the name "Mae" was descriptive.
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#42499
10/13/2001 6:49 PM
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10/14/2001 1:25 AM
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Speaking of tippable or untippable in relation to outhouses, my father-in-law used to recall the dear old days of yore when the night before Holloween was called "mischief night" or "moving night" when all the youths in a neighborhood would participate in pranks such as unfastening the neighbors' gates and pitching them on the porch roof, taking away the ashcans, and tipping over outhouses, of which there were still plenty in back yards even in the city. They apparently used to get away with stuff that would land modern young people in reform school.
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#42501
10/14/2001 3:36 AM
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That's cuz they didn't have reform schools in those days, BobY. A "mischief night" was just that. Mischief one night a year. Now we have muggers and miscreants running loose night and day.  "The good ole days" really were the good ole days, BobY.
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