Remember MASH? Swimming with Bowlegged Women?

Posted by Ole Tex March 12, 2004In reply to Remember MASH? Swimming with Bowlegged Women? posted by SR on March 04, 2004

What would that frase actualy mean,
swimming with Bowlegged Women? I'm lost.

It's advice from an old man to a young man. Never go swimmin' with bowlegged women. But I don't know what it means.

The phrase is much older than MASH or even Captain Quint's toast in "Jaws." I remember singing it as a boy growing up in Ireland.

I'm Popeye the sailor man,

I live in a garbage can.
I likes to go swimmin'
With bowlegged women,
I'm Popeye the sailor man.

I can remember that from the early '30s.

Well I'll be hornswoggled! I can remember singing that exact little ditty as a kid growing up in Texas in the 30's, except that "bowlegged" is a euphemism for the real "buck nekkid".