"fuck like a mink" [Was: "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?]

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

>I doubt that the average black American has any idea what a "mink" is,
>other than an expensive fur coat. If it wasn't for the fact that I
>read extensively, I certainly wouldn't know more than that. Joel's
>opening sentence should read "... among white people," because it's
>news to me. Black people don't know it. we say, "fucks like a rabbit,"
>when the subject comes up.

When I was in college, the Resident Assistant who lived my floor in the dorm had a girlfriend who was less than gifted in the looks department.  We all called her "rabbit", because the only reason we could figure he dated her was that she must screw like a rabbit.

The RA never got the joke, so far as I know, and often asked "Why are you calling her Rabbit?"

 

 

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