Lines in books that sound bad now, but aren't

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.

“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.

Would it be a bad thing to mention “tossing the salad” at this point?

Depends on the dressing you use…

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 :frowning:

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.

Hand me my long sword, ho!
-Romeo and Juliet

The ho! part is funny when read to a bunch of freshmen.

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…

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!