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Get Your Skates On! - Can anyone else confirm the rather rude origin of this phrase?!
Posted by Will Harry on February 06, 2000
In Reply to: Get Your Skates On! - Can anyone else confirm the rather rude origin of this phrase?! posted by Ade on February 06, 2000
: : : I was told that this phrase refers to the old practice of sailors, away at sea for long periods & somewhat sexually frustrated, copulating with the skate fish, which has a genital arangement rather like a womans.....
: : No, ten out of ten for inventiveness, but that's wrong.
: : It just means go fast, as you would when wearing skates.
: : Gary
: On what basis do you say it's wrong? The 'wearing skates' answer
is the obvious one
: but I was told by a friend the explanation of the fish connection
& he had heard it
: verified by 2 separate sources - but only verbally, I was just
wondering whether it was true.
: There must be someone out there who is a 'dab hand' at old marine
sayings.........
: Ade
Buddy, Gary is the systems manager. What he says is law.
