taint

[Harrold Wilson Gray]

On Apr 6, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Mullins, Bill wrote:

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>> Subject: Re: taint
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>>> Is this the "taint meat"?  As in, "taint pussy, taint asshole".
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>> In the UK, the male equivalent of 'taint' is 'barse' - it
>> runs from the Balls to the ARSE.
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>> --Neil Crawford
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> The US male equiv that I've heard is the


> "dickstring".

When I was a kid in St. Louis, I used to hear the brothers say stuff
like, "Man, that pussy was so fine that it made me pop my dick string!"
When I asked around to find out what a dick string was, nobody could
tell me, nor could anyone tell me how a brother would know when his
dick string had popped or whether the popping of it was painful. I
guess that the phrase was merely a fossil in black St. Louis by the
'40's. I know "taint" only as a consequence of reading uh-literature.
I've never heard it spoken.

The spelling of "dick string" as two words is merely a whim on my part.

-Wilson Gray

>  I don't have a
> good definition for it.
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> This discussion reminds me of the boast: "My dick is as long as a cat's
> tail.  At least, it is if you measure it the same way -- from the
> asshole to the tip."
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