a wiener is not a hot dog

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 7/5/08 6:06:09 PM, hwgray at GMAIL.COM writes:


> But, to answer your question, a "wienie" is (was?) relatively long and
> slender. So, if you went to FootLong, "Down on Sarah Street" (the
> title of an obscure-to-non-black-Saint-Louisans blues), you got a "hot
> dog" made with a wienie about as thick as a man's thumb and literally
> a foot long.
>
> OTOH, a "frank(furter) sangwich" was made with a hot-dog bun, but it
> contained a shorter (even than a regular wienie, let alone a
> foot-long), somewhat thicker sausage like unto a Hebrew National
> frankfurter or a German bratwurst or such like.
>

Circumcision is when someone cuts off part of someone's wienie/weenie.
Circumcision is when someone cuts off part of someone's wiener/weener.
*?Circumcision is when someone cuts off part of someone's hot dog.
*Circumcision is when someone cuts off part of someone's frankfurter.



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