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 08:53 pm (UTC)The article implied that these flag designs are pretty much exactly as they appeared at that time, though of course I have no way of knowing for sure. It looks so clean-lined I have to wonder if it was touched up more modernly. I want to convert it to a blue-and-pink-overlapping-to-lilac bisexual pirate flag, but I'm suck at GIMP. ;)
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Date: 2012-06-12 11:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-13 02:17 am (UTC)I was picturing this, with sculls rather than triangles...
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Date: 2012-06-13 08:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-13 09:21 am (UTC)http://www.amazon.com/Bisexual-Pride-Triangle-Womens-CafePress/dp/B0082XSL7G