What if you tend to get things backwards ans you end up using the waitress and tipping the spitoon.

Last time I went out to hear spit tunes, it was by some spittin' Polish outfit that had to take their instruments out of hock to make the gig.

Then came the shanty singers with all that heaving away and filling up the spiteen a lot faster. The more they'd heave, the more the staff would have to haul away. Charley, I suppose they have to be tuned, so that after every "phuttt" there is a proper "DING!"



As a kid, the first bit of opera I ever learned was:

Toreador-o don't spit on the floor.
Use the Cuspidor
That's what it's for