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#2551 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 99649
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: CO
Vehicle:07 FZ1 |
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#2552 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 295099
Join Date: Sep 2011
Chapter/Region:
South East
Location: Grapstein didn't ban himself
Vehicle:2017 Wind-up car Gray |
![]() I was really disappointed that no one got that joke at the time
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#2553 |
Scooby Specialist
Member#: 83725
Join Date: Mar 2005
Chapter/Region:
NESIC
Vehicle:2015 WRX (RIP) 2025 Civic Hybrid |
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#2554 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 99649
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: CO
Vehicle:07 FZ1 |
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#2555 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 34631
Join Date: Mar 2003
Chapter/Region:
MAIC
Vehicle:What day is it? it is... today |
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#2556 |
Scooby Specialist
Member#: 2808
Join Date: Nov 2000
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#2557 |
Scooby Specialist
Member#: 13823
Join Date: Jan 2002
Chapter/Region:
MAIC
Location: Hanover, MD
Vehicle:---- FREE GRAP!! |
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#2558 |
Scooby Specialist
Member#: 68284
Join Date: Aug 2004
Chapter/Region:
NWIC
Location: Constant confusion
Vehicle:2017 Backout Rally America Blue |
![]() Eels show up in a lot of ways in the illegal economies of medieval and Early Modern England. They were poached from creeks, stolen along the road, and pirated from ships. But eels were also an important part of the horse trade, where too-sharp horse dealers used them to help liven up older, broken-down horses.
Among the tricks of the trade was something called “feaguing,” which Francis Grose, in his 1785 Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, says means “to put ginger up a horse’s fundament, and formerly, as it is said, a live eel, to make him lively, and carry his tail well.” Grose goes on to note that the practice was so wide-spread that “a forfeit is incurred by any horse-dealer’s servant, who shall shew a horse without first feaguing him.” We still have the phrase “to ginger up a horse,” but before they used ginger, shady horse merchants used eels. Artistic rendition of the typical horse’s reaction Eels may not have been a commonly-used tool anymore by Grose’s day, but earlier English writers spoke of them with more familiarity. The humorist poet Edward Ward, in his 1700 “A Song Upon Dancing,” wrote that dancers “skip with nimble force / As Eels i’th’ belly of a Horse / Which Jockies use each Market-Day / To make ‘em dance, as People say.” Ward, like Grose, may be professing a lack of first-hand knowledge – it depends on what his “as People say” refers to – but he at least seems to believe that it was happening in his day. Writers from the previous century certainly were even more sure. A young John Milton made reference to feaguing in his ribald 1628 Latin poem Prolusion VI, in a section mocking his fellow Cambridge students. In reference to “certain Irish birds” (aves quaedam Hibernicae) he says that they are “more useful to grooms because they are by nature lively and brisk and prancing, and if they were forced into the anus of scraggly horses would make them livelier and quicker than if they had ten live eels in their bellies.” Milton’s statement is far more affirmative than Ward’s, and he was not alone in speaking about feaguing with eels as common practice. |
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#2559 |
Scooby Guru
Member#: 128484
Join Date: Oct 2006
Chapter/Region:
International
Location: Germany
Vehicle:2006 EDM WRX STI WRB |
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#2560 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 203905
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: MI
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![]() That is kind of funny on someone's ass cheek.
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#2561 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 34631
Join Date: Mar 2003
Chapter/Region:
MAIC
Vehicle:What day is it? it is... today |
![]() I did not enjoy looking at it long enough to be sure as I'm going to be the tattoo is too well done ( in context ) to really be on/in/around dat ass. Unless it's a new holographic type ink projection I'm mercifully unaware of.
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#2562 |
Scooby Guru
Member#: 128484
Join Date: Oct 2006
Chapter/Region:
International
Location: Germany
Vehicle:2006 EDM WRX STI WRB |
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#2563 |
Scooby Specialist
Member#: 21356
Join Date: Jul 2002
Chapter/Region:
NESIC
Location: Can't catch me!
Vehicle:2017 Subaru Corolla STI Limited SE-R Type (R) |
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#2564 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 34631
Join Date: Mar 2003
Chapter/Region:
MAIC
Vehicle:What day is it? it is... today |
![]() ![]() time travel: get another tattoo that says "only god can judge me" to find you still judging yourself becoming aware others can also judge you but you'd have a nice new tat to show off that maybe 5 other people would see if you don't post it to a site that has millions of visitors with at least one of that would not mind seeing the new tat. XMLV2 "kinda wish I didn't have tats" sometime later has new tats. sure being older wise she will not feel the same about the newer tats when they're old tats reminding her of a life she's not living |
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#2565 |
Scooby Guru
Member#: 128484
Join Date: Oct 2006
Chapter/Region:
International
Location: Germany
Vehicle:2006 EDM WRX STI WRB |
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