# Lines in books that sound bad now, but aren't **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-books-that-sound-bad-now-but-arent/146661 "2003-01-04T21:21:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-books-that-sound-bad-now-but-arent/146661/21 "2003-01-09T12:45:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > “Toss” as in “toss your cookies”. I have usually heard _toss your cookies_ used to mean _vomit_. _Tossing_ by itself I would take to mean _tossing off_, a synonym for _masturbating_. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-books-that-sound-bad-now-but-arent/146661/22 "2003-01-09T14:56:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by viking \* > \*\*I’ve got one from a song by McGinty. It’s about a cat that argued with a truck and lost. The poor feline is now described in the song as being just 6 lbs of raw minced meat that don’t smell very nice. But the line is: > > ``Yesterday he purred and played in his pussy paradise’’ \*\* “Decapitating tweety birds and masticating mice…” :eek: Somebody else who knows about _The Moggy Song!_ I thought I was the only one. I used to sing that to my kids as a lullaby. ---
**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-books-that-sound-bad-now-but-arent/146661/23 "2003-01-09T15:51:22Z")
Would it be a bad thing to mention _“tossing the salad”_ at this point? ---
**Author:** ![Go\_alien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Go\_alien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_alien)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-books-that-sound-bad-now-but-arent/146661/24 "2003-01-09T16:11:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SC\_Wolf \* > \*\*Would it be a bad thing to mention _“tossing the salad”_ at this point? \*\* Depends on the dressing you use… ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-books-that-sound-bad-now-but-arent/146661/25 "2003-01-09T22:33:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SC\_Wolf \* > \*\*Would it be a bad thing to mention _“tossing the salad”_ at this point? \*\* OK, I’ve heard the term _tosser_ before, so I guess that’s the same as calling someone a _jerk-off_. But this _tossing the salad_ of which you speak… more masturbation or something else altogether? I’m so much more naïve than I realized ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-books-that-sound-bad-now-but-arent/146661/26 "2003-01-09T22:46:56Z")
Salad tossing is…oral manipulation of the anal region. I just realized I tried to sterilize a topic about the butthole. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-books-that-sound-bad-now-but-arent/146661/27 "2003-01-09T23:12:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Carnage \* > \*\*Salad tossing is…oral manipulation of the anal region. > I just realized I tried to sterilize a topic about the butthole. \*\* Oh, you mean rimming? Why on earth is that called tossing the salad? I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to totally hijack this thread. ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-books-that-sound-bad-now-but-arent/146661/28 "2003-01-10T00:17:09Z")
Hand me my long sword, ho! -Romeo and Juliet The ho! part is funny when read to a bunch of freshmen. ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-books-that-sound-bad-now-but-arent/146661/29 "2003-01-10T04:18:03Z")
And the award for _The Most Unintentionally Homoerotic Passage in Walden_ goes to: “I want the fruit and flower of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.” I’ll bet you do, Henry, I’ll bet you do… ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-books-that-sound-bad-now-but-arent/146661/30 "2003-01-10T07:41:40Z")
Reading in Dickens that people (or horses) are “fagged out.” I mean, it’s bad enough that he’s named “Dickens” in the first place, but this is just too much for ninth graders to bear! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-books-that-sound-bad-now-but-arent/146661.md?page=1)