pull a train, was "Gang-bang": It's alive!

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:36 PM, David Daniel <david at coarsecourses.com>
wrote:

> consensually


That "pulling *a* train" might be in, some sick sense, be regarded as a
"consensual" act struck me as a possibility from the instant that first
heard those words in the song.

OTOH, "pulling *the* train," AFAIK, has never been understood as anything
other than as a form of rape. Apparently, the new-to-me term, "running the
train," is likewise just plain, old rape. And, apparently, "gang-bang" in
BE still means a battle between two street gangs and nothing else.

What's the function of the alternate term, "_forcible_ rape," I wonder? As
opposed to "_consensual_  rape," perhaps?

Youneverknow.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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