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[George Thompson]

>
>
> Thst reminds of whst was said in the 'hood in Saint Louis, back in the
> '40's and '50's:
>
> "I wouldn't fuck her with your dick."
>
> Presumably, the latter or similar is universally known to, if not
> necessarily used by, all guys.
>


There may be a horse-players version of this.
A few years ago, one of the racing touts of the [New York] Daily News,
reviewing the previous day's races, remarked that a certain horse had ambled
about the track and wrote "I wouldn't bet him back with your money".  As I
recall, the race was for young horses, beginning their careers, and after
such races there is always hope that a horse will do better next time.  Not
in this case, though, it seems.

I only recall this expression from this one occurrence, but I have never
seen the Daily News regularly.  Once saw it more frequently than I have
these last 3 years, and always look at the horse racing news when I do see
it.

GAT

--
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ.
Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> At 5:40 PM -0400 5/21/11, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
>> "I wouldn't fuck him using Drita's pussy."
>>
>>
>> Thst reminds of whst was said in the 'hood in Saint Louis, back in the
>> '40's and '50's:
>>
>> "I wouldn't fuck her with your dick."
>>
>> Presumably, the latter or similar is universally known to, if not
>> necessarily used by, all guys.
>>
>
> Eventually.  I learned this one when I was discoursing on negative
> polarity items ("touch a drop", "give a tinker's dam", "(could) make
> heads or tails of") and someone in the audience introduced me to "I
> wouldn't fuck her with *your* dick" or, more allusively, "I wouldn't
> fuck her with *yours*".  It took me a while to work out why this has
> the intended force, even given the well-established NPI "wouldn't
> touch X with a ten-foot pole".  But maybe it just speaks to my
> indiscriminacy at the time, since this was in 1971.
>
>   But this is the first time that I've
>> heard anything like that fall trippingly from the tongue of a woman.
>>
>>
>>
> The "using" sounds less natural to me than "with" in these expressions.
>
> LH
>
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