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From: lrudolph@panix.com (Lee Rudolph)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: das Absengen des Schamhaars (was, Re: I remember it well)
Date: 17 Nov 1996 16:08:15 -0500

>>> Do you know what the difference is between a violin and a viola?
>>The same as the one between a $500 call girl and a two-bit whore.
>The call girl burns longer?

I repost, without further ado, a bagatelle from March 1995.

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Date: Wed Mar 15 18:59:39 1995
From: lrudolph@panix.com (Lee Rudolph)
Subject: Re: Flaming pubic hair!
References: <D5HxLs.5I9@eskimo.com>

>Elizabeth "she flicked her Bic, and lit his wick" Garner

This reminds me (how could it not?) of something from Legman's Second Series. While I'm at it, I'll quote from some nearby material (which I was going to mention in my review-in-preparation, since it put me in mind of gerbils). This is all from 11.III.i, the "Specialties" subsection of the "Tricks of the Trade" section of the "Prostitution" chapter of _The_Rationale_of_the_Dirty_Joke.

        There is also the burning or killing of small animals
        or other living creatures allowed to move on the
        prostitute's body during intercourse... .  The French
        novelist, Proust, for example, is reported to have
        habitually taken live mice with him to male-brothels,
        which he would kill with needles on the boys' bodies
        during homosexual intercourse.  (Mice cost less than
        boys . . . [Legman's trailing-off dots.])

He segues to the joke that ends with the dialogue, "Is it really possible for you to piss through all that hair?" "Oh, yes." "Then you better begin now. You're on fire!", and continues

        The elaborate politeness of the man's speech is
        of course in counterpoint to the obvious hostility
        of his act.  The fact is that there is no accident
        at all about his lighting the prostitute's pubic
        hair: that is his perversion, for which he is
        paying.  Though not often discussed, this perversion
        takes its place in the stupefying catalogue of
        German slang terms as to prostitution and sexual
        perversion in Ernest Borneman's remarkable
        thesaurus of slang, _Sex_im_Volksmund_ ...
        `... das Absengen [singeing] des Schamhaars,'
        continuing with a slang synonmy of the tupes
        of burns and instruments used.  You really have
        to be a German to appreciate this.

Crossposts to alt.sex.bondage.usage.german have been avoided.

Lee "do you smoke after sex?" Rudolph

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Lee "der Untergang des Abendlandes" Rudolph