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Good ol' Ben "In the Dark, All Cats Are Gray" Franklin. Apparently, that phrase actually dates back to at least 1550 -- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/all_cat
by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Good ol' Ben "In the Dark, All Cats Are Gray" Franklin.
Apparently, that phrase actually dates back to at least 1550 --
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/all_cats_are_grey_in_the_dark https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/all_cats_are_grey_in_the_dark
Which suddenly has me curious on the history of advice on how to get "bad bitches" -- is there some grand human tradition I've failed to learn the major milestones of?
(Like fart jokes which are ~4k years old or advertisements which are ~6k years old.)
- empath75 9y agoThe oldest recorded joke is a fart joke— "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap." https://m.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/01/oldest_joke/ https://m.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/01/oldest_joke/
- soVeryTired 9y agoThe double negative confuses me. Are they saying young women never do that or they always do it?
- pngai 9y agoI could be confused too, but I would rewrite it as "It is a universal practice for a young woman to fart in her husband's lap."
- SomeStupidPoint 9y agoI think 'experience' might be better than 'practice', in the sense that it's an accidental fart. Which makes it a strangely comprehensible joke -- "there's never been a wife that didn't fart in her husband's lap", which I can see being said as a teasing, crude joke. (Especially if that "girl's don't fart" thing is an older pseudo-belief than I had thought.)
- burntrelish1273 9y agoThat's an unscalable, intractable problem unless you go to a certain bar in Los Gatos, CA known as Cougar Central (pun intended). Many of the affluent "bedroom" (pun also intended) communities have bars with bored naughty felines looking to hit it. PUA skills FTW.