On 4/4/17 8:49 AM, justan wrote:
> True North <
prince...@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
>> The John flushes his bowl...
>>
>> "Why are you and Donnie always talking about turds, toilet bowls, dicks, hand jobs, etc."
>>
>>
>> We like to 'call a spade a spade', johnny Mop.
>>
>
> Why you racist pig.
>
You, of course, are an ignorant ass.
From wiki:
To "call a spade a spade" is a figurative expression which refers to
calling something "as it is", that is, by its right or proper name,
without "beating about the bush"—being outspoken about it, truthfully,
frankly, and directly, even to the point of being blunt or rude, and
even if the subject is considered coarse, impolite, or unpleasant. The
idiom originates in the classical Greek of Plutarch's Apophthegmata
Laconica, and was introduced into the English language in 1542 in
Nicolas Udall's translation of the Apophthegmes, where Erasmus had
seemingly replaced Plutarch's images of "trough" and "fig" with the more
familiar "spade." The idiom has appeared in many literary and popular
works, including those of Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, W. Somerset
Maugham, and Jonathan Swift.
Of course, you've never read Plutarch, Udall, Wilde, Dickens, Maugham,
or Swift, at least in other than classic comic editions. I've never read
anything by Nicolas Udall.