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To: chasio649

Right. There are often variations in usage. When I was a kid, my father would frequently use the word “poke” for “paper bag.” My mother always seemed offended by that and told him not to say it He diid anyway. I never understood the problem until I learned that “poke” is also used for “scrotum.”


88 posted on 09/18/2015 11:35:24 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Poke Salad Annie? [The song]


96 posted on 09/18/2015 11:43:54 AM PDT by W. (I piss on your stupid, violence-provoking koran!)
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