I thought it was about the pheasant plucker and the pheasant plucker's
son.
Jill
On Thursday, March 24, 2005, at 06:18 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Max Miller !! a lot about peasants plucking??? P
>
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> Subject: Re: any formalists in the crowd? Having difficulty with
> scansion;
> wondering if the piece is worth working on ... I know the rhyme scheme
> isn't
> right
>
> Come on, Dom, am I the only one to remember the famous comedian of yore
> who told us about the quandary of the fellow who crossed a river on a
> log & came up against a young lady going in the opposite direction,
> without any space for manoeuvring - he didn't know whether to toss
> himself off or block her passage. I think he got tossed off BBC radio
> in
> the 40s for similar lapses of bon goût. And there's a Mr Tossoff in
> *Ulysses* somewhere, on the very witty translation of which into German
> I remember S.S.Prawer remarking in the TLS a couple of decades ago.
> Martin
>
> Dominic Fox wrote:
>
>> Time for a straw poll, I think. Hands up if you knew that the
>> expression "to toss off " meant "to masturbate".
>>
>> Dominic
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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