I laughed out loud at this, Mark. (Thanks.)
Candice
--- Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Good question. Why are chatte and pussy synonyms for
> vagina, and
> choose your animal for penis? Why is a loose woman a
> gata in Cuba,
> where her vagina is a masculine gato? Why is a bitch
> a bitch, but a
> perra's just a dog? And how can a guy be a con in
> France but only a
> conne can be a cunt in the US?
>
> At 04:25 PM 2/27/2007, you wrote:
> >MC Ward wrote:
> >>Thanks very much for clearing up "the cat's
> mother."
> >>It never occurred to me that it was/is a
> dehumanizing
> >>gesture. As for Himself, my Irish
> great-grandmother
> >>always called her husband "Mr. McAlister."
> Obviously,
> >>one couldn't call him "the cat's father" without
> being
> >>insulting, though insulting a woman was okay.
> >>
> >"Himself" I learned by reading Eugene O'Neill, my
> source for all
> >things Irish:-).
> >
> >My mother used "the cat's mother" in response to
> overusing (so she
> >thought) the pronoun "she." Since she (the cat's
> mother as well as
> >mine?) was Russian-Jewish, not Irish, I have no
> idea where it came
> >from except from the New York City streets where
> you were subjected
> >to all sorts of multicultural things long before
> there was such a
> >word as "multicultural." I don't know anything
> about its literal
> >meaning aside from being picked up by anyone with
> an attitude who
> >didn't like what you were saying.
> >Cats tend to get a bad rap, second only to wolves.
> There is the
> >cat's mother but there also is the far more pointed
> word "cathouse"
> >for a brothel. Why a cathouse? How does one line
> up cats with whores?
> >(Don't tell me side by side.)
> >
> >KW
> >
> >--------------------
> >Ken Wolman
> rainermaria.typepad.com
> >
> >"For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon
> me, and that which I
> >was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in
> safety, neither had I
> >rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came."
>
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