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Thread #172655   Message #4180498
Posted By: Robert B. Waltz
02-Sep-23 - 12:27 PM
Thread Name: No jesting with edged tools (Watkin's Ale)
Subject: RE: No jesting with edged tools (Watkin's Ale)
The "tool" is, of course, the male generative organ (ahem). As one should not risk handling an edged tool ("sharp-edged tool," in the version I know) in a casual manner, one should not use a generative organ unless one is willing to face the consequences.

As with everything in "Watkin's Ale," the statement has a surface meaning which is clean and a real meaning which is really dirty: If you don't want to get pregnant... don't do that which causes you to get pregnant.