Salty Dog - what is it?

Subject: Salty Dog
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 05:40 PM

I've read the various threads on "what's a salty dog", but haven't found a satisfactory answer. I know, for instance, that an easy rider is a man who lives off a woman; I assume a salty dog must have some equally exact definition. But what is it?

Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: tradsteve
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 05:49 PM

I've always heard that it was slang for oral sex... I may be wrong.

Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: kendall
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 08:14 PM

I was told it was a pimp

Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 08:40 PM

I thought it meant a sailor. Naive, I guess.

Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 08:44 PM

Four posts......four ideas.

All I know is that it didn't come from Nathan's.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: Sailor Dan
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 11:22 PM

HOw about it being a drink, Grapefruit and vodka??

Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 04:21 AM

It's No17 on the menu at our Chinese take away.

Skipjack

Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: Captain Roberts
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 04:34 AM

A "Salty Dog", also referred to as a "Salty Jack" is a sailor, at least originally. The references being Salt for the sea and Dog or Jack being references to sailing. what it has come to mean, that's anyone's guess. As for the drink? I've heard of a Salty Dog as Grapefruit Juice, saltwater and Vodka. Go fig...

Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: Easy Rider
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 09:40 AM

Doesn't every Easy Rider have a Salty Dog that all the women want to lick?

"His stick Candy don't melt away.
It just gets better, so the ladies say."

Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 09:42 AM

There used to be a restaurant chain called "The Salty Dog" - seafood. I hope tradsteve is wrong.

Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: DougR
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 01:56 PM

Go easy on the salt water, Captain Roberts. DougR

Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 03:49 PM

Always thought Salty Dog just meant rather on the grumpy side. Bob Dylan these days is an old Salty Dog. Jack Elliot is with out a doubt a Salty Dog. Go Ramblin' Man.