Oh wait--I also had two friends, both male, who had sex with their brothers.
How did I forget this stuff?
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - May 25, 2012 7:17:22 am PDT #6661 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
DavidS - May 25, 2012 7:17:52 am PDT #6662 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have obviously failed to ask you about your weird sex past.
Because I've already volunteered all that information!
How do you feel about doorknobs?
I don't want to fuck a doorknob. Cross that off the list.
DavidS - May 25, 2012 7:18:12 am PDT #6663 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How did I forget this stuff?
Freud calls it "repression."
tommyrot - May 25, 2012 7:18:48 am PDT #6664 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Because I've already volunteered all that information!
I must have repressed it.
§ ita § - May 25, 2012 7:19:05 am PDT #6665 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought it was something most people knew.
So did I. I had figured it for common historical knowledge, and then someone on gawker *pedantically* explained it, and I realised it wasn't pedantic at all, from the number of people going "Huh? Spade? Huh?"
It's the second google hit--I figured that reflected knowledge in adults, but nope.
However, my understanding of its usage was Prohibition era. I feel like I've seen it in films of that period.
JZ - May 25, 2012 7:19:12 am PDT #6666 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I knew it had the other meaning (I know I've heard it in that song from Hair, but I think I may have known it before then, probably from some long-ago Social Problem novel in my grandparents' basement), but the only way I've ever heard any actual people use it out loud was in the gardening-implement sense.
§ ita § - May 25, 2012 7:20:02 am PDT #6667 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
-I also had two friends, both male, who had sex with their brothers
Way to go, making me feel like a stick in the mud for not grokking Wincest.
Liese S. - May 25, 2012 7:21:09 am PDT #6668 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I knew spade was used in racist ways.
Amy - May 25, 2012 7:22:40 am PDT #6669 of 30001
Because books.
I knew the spade thing. I did not know, when I was a kid, the origin of the name of the Sambo's in Boca Raton (in late '70s, if you can believe it).
Way to go, making me feel like a stick in the mud for not grokking Wincest.
You're so rarely behind the curve.
DavidS - May 25, 2012 7:24:14 am PDT #6670 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I knew spade was used in racist ways.
Yeah, I thought it was common knowledge.