Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 11:27:26 EST From: "count to ten..." Subject: EXERCISE: What's That Euphemism (Was: Re: Epiphany) [I can see the post-Thanksgiving season is going to start off with a roar, if not full boar...alright, here's a thinkie for you...loose words tossing in a tiny toilet bowl...tink] On Tue, 18 Nov 1997 11:08:10 +1100, Mat Ward wrote: :) For the non-Brits: tossing is a euphemism for a certain personal action :) that is usually performed in private and alone. If you get my drift. well, let's see. I do love guessing games... there's the great old college game of projectile hurling, but while ordinarily done in private and alone at the porcelain throne, that can be done in public... a personal action, performed in private and alone? that privacy, personal, alone bit seems to be stressed here...not picking one's nows, as we were discussing earlier, I suppose. (can you pick your futures? how about your pasts? backsides?) gargling? showering? one of the other personal hygiene functions? how about brushing those choppers? FLOSSING! If I get your drift? I seem to be washing hopelessly farther from shore, probably being towed under by the riptide... premature articulation! yes, I think that's it. talking before you are really ready...often done alone? oh...wet hands...post-homicidal depression! apres le tides de rouge, la colere, avec moi, we plumb the depths of individual depression. tossing on those billows, who knows what sights we'll see... you don't think I got mat's drift? okay, what do you think tossing is a euphemism for? what personal action usually performed alone would you like to euphemize? tink