It was during last Christmas mass in Detroit, all silent and holy when my seven year old nephew reacted sharply and loudly to something which the priest was reading. ‘Mommy, why is the father using bad words?’. And here’s what the priest read from the Genesis 32.5 “I have oxen and asses …. to win your favor” My nephew wouldn’t stop till my sis explained. (Btw, the new international version of the Bible has replaced the terms with 'cattle and donkeys' )
It is easier to explain the young the older meaning of the slangs, but not vice versa. Consider this situation … My cousin’s innocent 45 year old wife once shouted excitedly seeing a cat “ Hey, look at that p***y, its so cute and pretty’. We had to hold back the laughter for fear of having to explain to her.
God knows since when this metamorphosis occurred and where it originated. My strong guess is North America and my question is why animals? … Donkeys. . Kittens…Roosters… Female dogs
A lot of things flashed through my mind while writing this blog. Here are some..
- Remember the harmless British phrase ‘Its raining cats and dogs’ I dread to think of the American equivalent, but it certainly will make a sex starved American happy.
- Do they still teach the nursery rhyme on how a certain cat went to London to see the queen?
- What would telling ‘cock and bull stories’ signify these days?
Cock a doodle do!
My dame has lost her shoe,
My master's lost his fiddlestick,
And knows not what to do
The master sure has problems and so does the maid!
Brazenly Oxen, downright donkeys! interesting... hackneyed raining cats and dogs ...contemporary raining pussies and bitches!!! great stuff Cheers to 2012. Old Monk
ReplyDeleteHumorous kick to 2012..nice!!!
ReplyDeleteThe list is never ending . . . . .
ReplyDeleteHa Ha Ha
George
Cool stuff...... funny ...... Kabba
ReplyDeleteHumans are vicarious indeed! or is it a matter of social decency to shift the blame on animals. Whatever, sex has been in the center stage of our history, more than what we might wish to acknowledge. Consider the following:
ReplyDeleteAll Slander Words in all languages across all cultures across all times hover around a) sexual behaviour of either the mother or sister b) size of sexual organs, one latest hit being "Bhag D K Bose" and/or C) on the nature of act itself or how it is performed. No doubt we are all obsessed with it, male of female, more than what tend to admit.
It is yet a mystery to me as to why the most pleasurable act of our lives (arguably) receives so much of slander...perhaps because that is the best way to inflict maximum pain.
Whatever be the reason, anything to do with procreation elicits a lots of interest: be it between animals or between humans. Kudos indeed...., at least this is one spot where we seem to have put animals (at least their names) ahead of ourselves.....long live pussies and others....
My two cents worth rambling on an exciting write up.....