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Thread #90681 Message #2646088
Posted By: Charley Noble
01-Jun-09 - 10:47 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Every Good Ship Has a Mainmast (chantey)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Every Good Ship Has a Mainmast (chant
Lighter-
Welcome to this erudite discussion!
You certainly have nailed this one, "tarse" being an old English slang word for male genitals. My classmates had lots of slang words for male genitals but they never came up with that one, and many of them were from ancient Scotch-Irish (not necessarily English of course!) families.
Shall we try this verse:
A Ship should have a Captain her Men to command And a maid would have a youngman to have his P--- ...