[Ads-l] gird, n. (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Andy Bach]

I just read a discussion of "girding" as in, "gird up your loins" (which I
thought I had heard was the K.J. alternative translation of a phrase that
was closer to "put on your what-cha-ma-call-its". Alas, that appears not to
be true) with images of how it was to take your tunic (if you were a
warrior) and tuck it between your legs and wrap it around your waist, to
keep it from being in the way during battle.

> What's the word? Thunderbird!
https://youtu.be/ytZrzwfJn1g
>> More precisely, gird gird gird gird is the word.
https://youtu.be/9Gc4QTqslN4

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 1:36 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I almost forgot:
>
> What's the word? Thunderbird!
>
> JL
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 11:47 AM MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC
> AVMC (USA) <0000099bab68be9a-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> > CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED
> >
> >
> > What's the word?
> > Johannesberg
> > Gil Scott-Heron, 1975
> >
> >
> > >
> > > ----
> > >
> > > More precisely, gird gird gird gird is the word.
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
> > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 7:07 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > gird is the word.
> > > >
> > > > Two thumbs up!
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 10:09 AM Jonathan Lighter
> > > > <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Duluth Trading Co. is urging guys to "lull their loins" with a pair
> > > > > of
> > > > its
> > > > > "Dang Soft Underwear."  ("Like a pillow for your package.")
> > > > >
> > > > > Caution-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xQ-pzcYBlU
> > > > >
> > > > > But the issue here is that Dang Soft is also "like a cuddly panda
> > > > > hugged your gird."
> > > > >
> > > > > Maybe they mean "girth," but idiomatically even that's a (wait for
> > > > > it) stretch.
> > > > >
> > > > > But gird is the word.  Maybe because "loins" are involved.
> > > > >
> > > > > JL
> > > > >
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