Question of the day. (hopefully un-Googlable)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

In what book did the term 'piece of ass' (in the sexual sense) first appear?

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[Bunny]

1. The Godfather?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. No. Not a mafia tale.

[Fenris]

3. The Bible

;)

[HEyHEY]

5. And god said unto joseph "Go for mary, she's a real piece of ass"

:-)

[Fenris]

6. Hey, God knows what He likes

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. Everything, I assume.

[Fenris]

9. Except that which He destroys

;)

[Burma Jones]

4. Tropic of Capricorn?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. No. It is fictional, though. Written by a White European Male.

[Whitacre D_WI]

10. Erm.

Native English-speaker?


"Lady Chatterly's Lover" was considered a naughty book -- but D.H. Lawrence seems too proper to say something so coarse (not that there's nothing coarse in that book, but I found it tame when I was 12).

How about "Ulysses?"

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. You're close, it's an Irishman.

[dweller]

12. ulysses

joyce


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[Screaming Lord Byron]

13. Two centuries too late.

[Reverend_Smitty]

18. hmmm 18th century irish writers

how about Laurence Sterne's Tristam Shandy...that was a rather saucy book for its day and age... It was one of Thomas Jefferson's favorite books

[MsUnderstood]

14. Don Quiote

As in Don Quiote, that is not what I meant when I said piece of ass. . .

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. Hmmm. Didn't I write that? Or was that Don Juan?

[Fenris]

16. Hmm. Irishman.

Gonna go with Beckett.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. OK. Shall I reveal the answer?

Not Beckett, though.

[Fenris]

23. Okay, that's clearly incorrect.

Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy?

[Burma Jones]

19. Swift - Gulliver's Travels

[Screaming Lord Byron]

21. We have a winner - Gulliver's Travels.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

22. Bonus question - which famous book has a character called Master Bates

who constantly jangles the change in his pockets?

[Burma Jones]

24. Two Centuries Too Late tipped me off

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. Are you sure it's sexual?

In this quote, I think it's literal (wouldn't Swift have written "piece of arse", anyway?)

"The sorrel nag offered me a root, which he held
(after their manner, as we shall describe in its proper place) between his hoof and pastern; I took it in my hand, and, having smelt it, returned it to him again as civilly as I could. He brought out of the YAHOOS' kennel a piece of ass's flesh; but it smelt so offensively that I turned from it with loathing: he then threw it to the YAHOO, by whom it was greedily devoured."

Or is he just making a pun/using it as a metaphor?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

26. Don't know. I see sex everywhere though, so it's good enough for me.

I was reading about it in 'You are being lied to' - The Disinformation book.

[LiviaOlivia]

20. Fielding---Tom Jones?