# Just Pratkissing.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-pratkissing/190554>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [July 24, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-pratkissing/190554 "2003-07-24T04:35:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-pratkissing/190554/1 "2003-07-24T04:35:23Z")

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Yes. I am kissing prats.

:rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-pratkissing/190554/2 "2003-07-24T05:21:25Z")

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Er …interesting hobby … 🙂

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-pratkissing/190554/3 "2003-07-24T05:25:29Z")

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Ah, the beauty of gluteal osculation.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-pratkissing/190554/4 "2003-07-24T05:35:19Z")

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After some googling (due to only having vocabulary™ version 1.0) I am led to ask the question : does ‘prat’ mean ‘ass’ somewhere **Q**?

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-pratkissing/190554/5 "2003-07-24T05:40:20Z")

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[Prat.](http://www.bartleby.com/61/32/P0503200.html)

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**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-pratkissing/190554/6 "2003-07-24T11:52:29Z")

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And all this time I thought a pratfall was what happened when you slipped on a banana peel.

Now I understand that a pratfall is what happens when a guy like me gets old.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-pratkissing/190554/7 "2003-07-24T13:11:10Z")

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I misread the OP title as RAT kissing and then saw **Algernon** as the newest reply.

Imagine my disappointment. ☹

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**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-pratkissing/190554/8 "2003-07-24T14:34:40Z")

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RAT kissing?

Puh-leeze. I sir, am a mouse. I am offended beyond words. Rats are dirty vermin of the genus _rattus_. Mice are cute and cuddly creatures of the genus _mus_.

In apology, please send flowers.

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-pratkissing/190554/9 "2003-07-24T20:59:09Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Algernon \*  
> \*\*In apology, please send flowers. \*\*

_ **Send flowers?** _ Have you lost your mind?

😛

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-pratkissing/190554/10 "2003-07-25T03:01:32Z")

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On my To Do list:

"Flowers. For **Algernon**.

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**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-pratkissing/190554/11 "2003-07-25T13:19:15Z")

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Thanks **NoClueBoy**. 🙂

I haven’t lost my mind yet **Polycarp**. I’ve been lost in thought however. Probably because it was unfamiliar territory. 😛