"brim for a fight" -- I'm done

[Rick Castello]

     Was circumcision less common among Catholics in the 50's?

     Or did "skin me back" mean something else entirely?

     -Rick


On Wed, April 18, 2007 3:49 pm, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> "Do me like you would a banana: skin me back and eat me!" was popular
> in the early '50's at my Roman-Catholic, Jesuit-run prep school.
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> And people of my generation have the gall to complain about the
> language of teen-agers of today! The major differences seem to be that
> modern teens don't pretend not to use such language and girls can talk
> dirty, too. In my day, had any girl used the kind of language used by
> today's young women, which is pretty much the same as that used by
> today's young men, she would have skanked herself out. Of course, it
> was also the case, back in the day, that only rogues would have used
> any kiind of unseemly language in the presence of girls.
>
> -Wilson

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