Re: GR translation: checking out tits ‘n’ asses, waistlines ‘n’ baskets

[Keith Davis]

Of all the available words, breasts seems the warmest and most intimate.
I'm sticking with that...

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> basket for breasts in this context seems rather unlikely as we have the
> tits just a few words before.
>
> In the urban dictionary I found that:
> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=basket: Could mean balls,
> obviously, but vagina too. Take your pick?
>
> 2015-10-13 12:16 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>
>> Baskets, noun, the female breasts, ROUTLEDGE DICT OF MODERN SLANG,
>> interestingly no citation earlier than 1965. An anachronistic usage from
>> the fountainhead of the sixties.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Oct 13, 2015, at 2:01 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would think the things normal bras have two of.
>>
>> 2015-10-13 5:36 GMT+02:00 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Best ... P-List ... subject line ... ever ...
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Mike Jing
>>> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > V653.4-14   But he gets no farther than Nürnberg, where his valise,
>>> with
>>> > Byron wrapped inside in an alb, is ripped off by a transsectite, a
>>> Lutheran
>>> > named Mausmacher who likes to dress up in Roman regalia. This
>>> Mausmacher,
>>> > not content with standing in front of his own mirror making papal
>>> crosses,
>>> > thinks it will be a really bizarre kick to go out to the Zeppelin
>>> field to a
>>> > Nazi torchlight rally in full drag, and walk around blessing people at
>>> > random. Green torches flaring, red swastikas, twinkling brasses and
>>> Father
>>> > Mausmacher, checking out tits ‘n’ asses, waistlines ‘n’ baskets,
>>> humming a
>>> > clerical little tune, some Bach riff, smiling as he moves through the
>>> Sieg
>>> > Heils and choruses of “Die Fahne Hoch.”
>>> >
>>> > What is the basket in "waistlines ‘n’ baskets"?
>>> -
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>>>
>>
>>
>


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