some comments and a question

andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Tue Sep 16 16:17:00 CDT 1997


calbert at pop.tiac.net writes:
> > and cried `foul',
> > `hand ball', `invasion of privates' and other such ejaculations.
> Andrew,
> thank you for not mentioning my role in your precis. btw, are you 
> aware that "hand balling" is slang for fist fucking?
> Just prepping you for the deluge, those people are REALLY prickly.

Not a usage I was acquainted with - `balling' suggests it must be a
yank term, if you get my drift (and pardon my French, as `twere) - but
thanks for the demotic input all the same. As you say, language
language language, lovely no matter how unsavoury (some of us may
find) the subject.


Andrew Dinn
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How do you know but ev'ry bird that cuts the airy way
Is an immense world of pleasure clos'd by your senses five



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