Re: Re: ? ? ? keep a cow

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 4/25/05 12:46:37 PM, laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:


>
> Not to mention "(go) fuck a duck", which has rhetorical, if not
> semantic, advantages.
>
> Larry
>

A friend of mine was in jail in the 1950s with a man who was there for, uhm,
trifling with this sort of poultry in this sort of way. The pragmatic
advantages of ducks (as oppposed to snakes) seem clear enough--do the semantic
advantages not follow?