A couple of phallicisms

[Wilson Gray]

On Mar 3, 2005, at 5:39 AM, neil wrote:

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> on 3/3/05 4:42 am, Wilson Gray at wilson.gray at RCN.COM wrote:
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>> My dick was as hard as a molunk chunk
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>> My dick was as hard as times was in 1932
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>> My dick was so hard that I didn't have enough skin left to close my
>> eyes
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>> -Wilson Gray
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> Not so much hard as sweet:
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> "I don't want to do this." I said.
> He stepped back. He had an erection. "You don't like it?"
> He rubbed himself with one hand. "My dick's so sweet, it'll give you
> cavities."
> -- Susanna Moore, 'In The Cut', Picador, London, 1996, 163
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> -Neil Crawford (who has come across 'hard as a policeman's nightstick')
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I think that the difference lies between bragging to one's buddies in
one case and trying to seduce a potential sexual partner in the other
case.

-Wilson Gray