From: owner-goths-digest@smoe.org (goths-digest) To: goths-digest@smoe.org Subject: goths-digest V3 #172 Reply-To: goths@smoe.org Sender: owner-goths-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-goths-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk goths-digest Friday, November 12 1999 Volume 03 : Number 172 Today's Subjects: ----------------- trench mouth ["Shayna Nova" ] Re: trench mouth ["Christopher L. Smith" ] Re: trench mouth [KrodKnid@aol.com] Korsetts [KrodKnid@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 04:07:08 PST From: "Shayna Nova" Subject: trench mouth I forget if anyone's posted this yet, if someone has, sorry: Most people [in the 1500's] didn't have pewter plates, but had trenchers - a piece of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl. Trenchers were never washed and a lot of times worms got into the wood. After eating off wormy trenchers, they would get "trench mouth." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:04:06 -0500 From: "Christopher L. Smith" Subject: Re: trench mouth At 04:07 AM 11/11/99 -0800, you wrote: >I forget if anyone's posted this yet, if someone has, sorry: >Most people [in the 1500's] didn't have pewter plates, but had trenchers - a >piece of >wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl. Trenchers were >never >washed and a lot of times worms got into the wood. After eating >off >wormy trenchers, they would get "trench mouth." So what's the rest of the song about? "He was a whistleblower for the FDA," "he was a lousy actor" and etc. It just seems to me that there is a lot of modern references in the song too. Chris ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:39:22 EST From: KrodKnid@aol.com Subject: Re: trench mouth In a message dated 11/11/1999 8:06:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, cls39@cornell.edu writes: << So what's the rest of the song about? "He was a whistleblower for the FDA," "he was a lousy actor" and etc. It just seems to me that there is a lot of modern references in the song too. >> The whole thing seems a rather bizarre character study of a drug snitch.A rural jock type who takes a stab at very low-level cloak and dagger stuff by turning in drug offenders to the feds............maybe an attempt to give his his worthless existence some meaning.........told from the point of view of his mortified little sister.The "trenchmouth" pun/metaphor in reference to his Biiiiiiiiiigggg nasty mouth.I love they way she plays with words and meanings........"He wore a trenchcoat and he waved the dick.....seeee flag." :-) Since we have a historical reference for the word "trenchmouth", how about "whistle-blower"? Whistle-blowers were Nazi sympathizers who were non-official regular citizens that carried a whistle (something like British "Bobbies" use to call for assistance) and "blew the whistle" on Jews et al in helping the Gestapo hunt them down.The term probably has earlier references to public citizens who did the same thing for the police chasing criminals in America or England. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:01:22 EST From: KrodKnid@aol.com Subject: Korsetts Some of you goths may be interested in this site:-) Korsetts von dd Handel Modevertrieb ------------------------------ End of goths-digest V3 #172 ***************************