Ram and Puss
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where_away'Brother, how tedious you can be, on occasion. I did hear some cries of "Jolly rogers - jolly rogers - we shall roger them." But in parenthesis, Jack, tell me about this word roger. I have often heard it aboard, but can make out no clear nautical signification.'
'Oh, it is no sea-term. They use it ashore much more than we do - a low cant expression meaning to swive or couple with.'
Stephen considered for a moment and then said, 'So roger joins bugger and that even coarser word; and they are all used in defiance and contempt, as though to an enemy; which seems to show a curious light on the lover's subjacent emotions. Conquest, rape, subjugation: have women a private language of the same nature, I wonder?"
Jack said, 'In some parts of the West Country rams are called Roger, as cats are called Puss; and of course that is their duty; though which came first, the deed or the doer, the goose or the egg, I am not learned enough to tell.'
'Would it not be the owl, at all?'
'Never in life, my poor Stephen. Who ever heard of a golden owl?
Why is it the duty of the rams to be called Roger, and of cats to be called Puss?
'Oh, it is no sea-term. They use it ashore much more than we do - a low cant expression meaning to swive or couple with.'
Stephen considered for a moment and then said, 'So roger joins bugger and that even coarser word; and they are all used in defiance and contempt, as though to an enemy; which seems to show a curious light on the lover's subjacent emotions. Conquest, rape, subjugation: have women a private language of the same nature, I wonder?"
Jack said, 'In some parts of the West Country rams are called Roger, as cats are called Puss; and of course that is their duty; though which came first, the deed or the doer, the goose or the egg, I am not learned enough to tell.'
'Would it not be the owl, at all?'
'Never in life, my poor Stephen. Who ever heard of a golden owl?
Why is it the duty of the rams to be called Roger, and of cats to be called Puss?
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Date: 2012-06-12 04:59 pm (UTC)And it is the duty of a ram to swive or couple with his ewes - for why else would you keep a ram? - I suppose that is what Jack means anyway - he is not sure whether rams are called Roger because they roger, or whether the word comes from the name :-)
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Date: 2012-06-12 05:04 pm (UTC)So Jack is lost for words, as usual. Is that what you wanted to say? ;D
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Date: 2012-06-12 05:15 pm (UTC)My thoughts entirely. I did not want to go there either. ;D
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Date: 2012-06-12 05:36 pm (UTC)A puss is not for duty, it is purely for pleasure... everyone knows that!
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Date: 2012-06-12 06:22 pm (UTC)Obviously more of a country gentleman than I gave him credit for...!
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Date: 2012-06-12 05:34 pm (UTC)One of my favourite local rock formations is called Ringing Roger... (random thought)
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Date: 2012-06-12 05:38 pm (UTC)What a name! You would not know the origin?
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Date: 2012-06-12 05:13 pm (UTC)You can leave the cats out and the sentence is a bit easier to understand. It is the ram's duty to roger the ewes to make lots of little lambs!
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Date: 2012-06-12 05:40 pm (UTC)DOES it???
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News to me... I thought it was much more generic than that!
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Date: 2012-06-12 05:38 pm (UTC)I wish you would not confuse my mind, for all love!
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Date: 2012-06-12 05:43 pm (UTC)Maybe that's how rex cats got their curly hair.
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