[SOC] the taint

Ron roncasa at verizon.net
Tue Aug 10 12:06:58 EDT 2010


On 08/10/2010 10:23 AM, Charles Harpole wrote:
> A delicate physical issue.  The "t'ain't" or just "taint" is an area of the human body between the place of elimination down there and just a few millimeters forward and upward toward the naughty parts.  The word comes from "tis not" or "it ain't" ... the exacttitude is lost in history... because this spot, lacking a good colloquial label, was said to be...
> "it's not the elimination place, and it is not the naughty part" ... thus it taint one and it taint the other.  Mister Coleman Barks, of the University of Georgia English Dept, wrote a published poem about the taint in his book "Quickly Aging Here."
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> This is just a reminder for you all who already knew this, I am sure.  73
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> Charles Harpole k4vud at hotmail.com
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say taint true,

Ron, wb1hga


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