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Thread #22895 Message #250938
Posted By: Scabby Douglas
03-Jul-00 - 04:18 AM
Thread Name: Help: meaning of 'in bed w/ captain's daughter'
Subject: RE: Help: meaning of 'in bed w/ captain's daughte
If it helps, a term commonly used in the 18/19th century for an officer's cat-0'-nine-tails was the captains's "starter"... I think it would be easy to see how that could be misheard or alternatively remembered as capatins's daughter..