Growing up in ‘the South’, I was exposed to many… mmm… ‘colorful’ expressions. The expression used in the title is oddly enough not one of them. I picked up this one from my friend George S, a native of the state of Maryland.
Of course, my friend Bill P of New Paltz NY would argue that Maryland belongs ganged with Georgia under the heading ‘the South’, but that would just be his being very ‘Northern’. I steadfastly refuse to use the term ‘Yankee’, though Bill P did once call me ‘Rebel scum’, which was fundamentally, let’s agree, ungenerous.
I’ve not once in my lifetime been led to believe that snakes might actually have penises, consequently I have never researched the matter. If snakes are in fact lucky enough to have them, I’m going to stick with guessing they are crooked. What about you?
Give it some thought and get back to me.
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March 9, 2019 at 10:23 am
voenixrising
From Wikipedia:
A hemipenis (plural hemipenes) is one of a pair of intromittent organs of male squamates (snakes, lizards and worm lizards). Hemipenes are usually held inverted within the body, and are everted for reproduction via erectile tissue, much like that in the human penis.
“The More You Know…”
March 9, 2019 at 10:39 am
Dave
A l w a y s good to hear from you. And ‘to your point’ of the more you know, post-posting, I discovered (online… imagine that) the ‘documented’ expressions ‘Crooked as a bag of snakes’ and ‘Crooked as a pig dick’. Mystery ‘solved’…
March 9, 2019 at 6:01 pm
Urspo
That’s a new one for me. I like it.
March 9, 2019 at 6:10 pm
Dave
A l w a y s good to hear from you, as it has been for almost ten years:-)