[Ads-l] QOTY? "It was not my first sword dance." --- Rex Tillerson.

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

> >
> > I never knew that the phrase had a gay connotation, and I doubt that
> > Tillerson does either.
> 
> It doesn’t, I’m pretty sure.  “Sword fight” does, as noted with the reference below to the jousting shenanigans—not a *gay* connotation
> necessarily, but that’s in the ballpark. (See http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sword%20fighting for details.)  Even
> urban dictionary doesn’t have anything racy on sword dancing.
> 
> 

See the phrase, "That's what SHE said," especially as used by Michael Scott on "The Office."  It follows that ANY phrase (at least, any phrase involving something as phallic as a sword) can be made to have a racy and/or gay connotation.  "Sword dance" may not currently have one, but it could.


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