"lay pit and box together"

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:11 AM -0400 8/7/07, Charles Doyle wrote:
>I recall that Sue Somebody, the sex advisor on late-night TV, a few
>weeks ago was explaining how (theoretically, at least) excessively
>vigorous anal intercourse (with a woman)

Imagine how vigorous it would have to be if it were with a man...

>  can result in pregnancy.
>
>--Charlie
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>---- Original message ----
>>Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:58:19 -0400
>>From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
>>Subject: Re: "lay pit and box together"
>>
>>A correspondent on another list notes:
>>
>>>According to Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Historical Slang,
>>>Penguin 1972, page 699, the expression means to destroy or remove
>>>the division between anus and vagina. He dates the expression to
>>>about 1780, and his reference is to Grose's  Dictionary of the
>>>Vulgar Tongue, 1785, where it is described as a simile derived
>>>from the playhouse. He does not explain the purpose of such an
>>>operation.
>>
>>(Same source (although 1785 instead of 1811), and still just a
>>dictionary -- until I obtain the 1764 usage -- but still believed
>>in 1972.
>>
>>Joel
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