I just don't get itPoor Semiret, he's foreign and has no idea if he "should laugh about the whole 'only playing music when they are out of ice cream' thing or not." There's also a Far Side cartoon that has had him stumped for almost 20 years.
What don't you understand? What have you politely gone along with whilst internally going WTF?
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chthonic, Thu 31 Mar 2005, 11:09)
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Lay Her on Back.......and slip in the big one.
For more years than I can remember this was my fathers favourite saying. One day (aged 6 or so) I asked him what it meant. He paused then said 'Its an American baseball thing - it means you're going to try hard to hit a big shot'.
I wandered off happy that I had received an explanation, but absolutely none the wiser. A year or so later started playing t-ball, then baseball. My dad still said it, but no one else did. I kept up the whole thing of not getting it for years. Why did you have to 'lay her back' to hit a big shot?
Years later, I was seeing a rather lovely but quite dim girl. She had read that talking dirty was something men liked. She had enough difficulty with the English language anyway. Out of her mouth comes 'slip me your big boy'. I had a eureka moment regarding dads saying and also a fit of unseemly giggles at this ridiculous statement.
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