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Salty Dog - what is it?

06 Sep 00 - 05:40 PM (#292400)
Subject: Salty Dog
From: GUEST,JTT

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?


06 Sep 00 - 05:49 PM (#292406)
Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: tradsteve

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


06 Sep 00 - 08:14 PM (#292492)
Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: kendall

I was told it was a pimp


06 Sep 00 - 08:40 PM (#292505)
Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: SINSULL

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


06 Sep 00 - 08:44 PM (#292508)
Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: catspaw49

Four posts......four ideas.

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

Spaw


06 Sep 00 - 11:22 PM (#292572)
Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: Sailor Dan

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


07 Sep 00 - 04:21 AM (#292650)
Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: Skipjack K8

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

Skipjack


07 Sep 00 - 04:34 AM (#292653)
Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: Captain Roberts

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...


07 Sep 00 - 09:40 AM (#292741)
Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: Easy Rider

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."


07 Sep 00 - 09:42 AM (#292747)
Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: SINSULL

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


07 Sep 00 - 01:56 PM (#292939)
Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: DougR

Go easy on the salt water, Captain Roberts. DougR


07 Sep 00 - 03:49 PM (#293001)
Subject: RE: Salty Dog
From: GUEST

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.