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esteven ([personal profile] esteven) wrote in [community profile] where_away2012-06-12 06:46 pm

Ram and Puss

'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?
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[personal profile] heather_mist 2012-06-12 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
as for the duties of a puss I am not even going there
A puss is not for duty, it is purely for pleasure... everyone knows that!
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[personal profile] feroxargentea 2012-06-12 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Just don't ask the Church of England!
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[personal profile] heather_mist 2012-06-12 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Or the Catholic church either.
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[personal profile] feroxargentea 2012-06-12 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably best not ask any church, they do get so very embarrassed and then tear themselves into schisms, the silly sods.
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[personal profile] feroxargentea 2012-06-12 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Today they decided to be opinionated *amused*