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The gay pig slut slogan for the Fourth
(Warning: lots of off-color word play about male masturbation) To celebrate American independence (year 246), the Fort Troff company (“Ruff Stuff for Pig Sluts”), purveyor of sex accessories, primarily...
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Take it from the man on the can
Another adventure in dubious commercial names and slogans. In the past few days the hyperkinetic tv pitchman Phil Swift — the id of the Flex Seal company, the Billy Mays of liquid rubber — has been...
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cogedores
(Warning: the posting quickly descends into various kinds of vulgar, unsavory slang.) From Kyle Wohlmut (from Twitter) on Facebook this morning, with the comment “good morning fuckers’: (#1) A set of...
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Zhug it up!
As a Z-person, I notice occurrences of the letter Z, especially word-initial ones. As an English linguist, I notice occurrences of word-initial ZH, because they’re so rare. Outside of proper names in...
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Three greetings for 9/6/22
For Woo(l)ly Mammoth’s #82: a fresh greeting formula, a morning hummer, and a fairy woodland bouquet. To which I’m adding some carrot cake and coffee ice cream: it’s not only my birthday, it’s also...
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The news for wieners
(Phallic preoccupations abound in this posting, sometimes in street language — I mean, look at the title above — so some readers may want to skip over it) Passed on by a friend on Facebook yesterday,...
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Male art: the hidden talent of the conch
(There will be discussion of penises and vaginas, some of it using street language, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) Having discovered and posted about a vintage photograph of three young men...
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highfalutin
Today’s Mary, Queen of Scots Not Dead Yet posting, some diversion from the difficulties of daily life. I take my cue from Ann Burlingham, posting on Facebook on 12/4: Last night I was watching Nick...
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That highfalutin sonofagun from Arizona
That would be “Ragtime Cowboy Joe”, in the western novelty tune from 1912 — with many variations in the wording in different performances, but all using the adjective highfalutin (in some spelling),...
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make the naked pretzel
Today’s very brief Not Dead Yet posting, in an interim between narcoleptic episodes (which still crowd out most of my days): letting old episodes of the sitcom Cheers run past, soothingly, in the...
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Penguin suits
(On the personal background, see my Zardoz posting; the posting below is one I started yesterday but was unable to finish. Hard days.) Yesterday’s Rhymes With Orange cartoon shows a collection of...
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Ride the wild rabbit!
(Packed with raunch of several varieties, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) A digression from one of the topics of yesterday’s posting “Moments of rebirth” — the lunar new year...
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Sausage juice
(this posting descends fairy rapidly to discussions of the male genitals, and of man-man sex, in street language, so it’s not for kids or the sexually modest) From Michael Palmer on Facebook yesterday,...
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Sausages, no preservatives
An extremely busy photo that my Peruvian colleague Ernesto Cuba took on 5/24 inside the St. Lawrence Market in downtown Toronto. The shop in the photo is offering sausages, no preservatives — innocent...
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Meatball moments
Kristin Landis Lowry posted on Facebook on 6/4 about making meatballs — which she spells as meat balls — for her household, with photos of (among other things) the meatballs in a roasting pan, the...
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A Daily Jocks flash offer
(A male model in nothing but totally revealing cotton briefs, mention of penises and stud hustling, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) A Daily Jocks sale ad that came in my e-mail...
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Crotch pong
(Intimate talk about male bodies, mostly mine, in plain terms, though not so racy as to ban kids — but I will freely use the vernacular noun and verb piss, nouns dick and balls. In any case, some...
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On jerk, jerky, and jerking (off), quoting (in full) two excellent surveys of this domain: from the Grammarphobia site in 2016; from The Ringer site last month — the second of these using research by...
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(some explorations in sexual slang, with some street language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest) A follow-up to yesterday’s posting “down there”, on male-genital down there, with a...
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The dorky, the raunchy, and the portmanteaued
The pursuit of plurals for the English noun octopus — most recently, in yesterday’s posting “Obscure plurals of octopus (and rhinoceros)” — has now lurched into the zone of the dorky, the raunchy, and...
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