the meaning of ash in get one's ashes hauled?
임상훈
then, why does the phrase 'get one's ashes hauled' mean 'to have sex and
ejaculate'?
what's the meaning of the 'ash' in the second phrase?
thanks in advance...
Rushtown
>From: "임상훈" ejs...@hananet.net
>Date: 6/11/2002 9:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time
>Message-id: <ae6isf$5fu$1...@news1.kornet.net>
Haven't heard it before but a good guess would be "semen".
GrapeApe
>>the phrase 'to haul one's ash' means 'to depart, or to die', right?
>>
>>then, why does the phrase 'get one's ashes hauled' mean 'to have sex and
>>ejaculate'?
>>
>>what's the meaning of the 'ash' in the second phrase?
Getting a piece of ash. Le Petit Mort.
Jerry Friedman
> the phrase 'to haul one's ash' means 'to depart, or to die', right?
I hadn't heard it.
> then, why does the phrase 'get one's ashes hauled' mean 'to have sex and
> ejaculate'?
>
> what's the meaning of the 'ash' in the second phrase?
>
> thanks in advance...
I think this has to do with old-time coal furnaces (probably still
used somewhere in the world), which filled up with ash. (Source: _The
Diary of Samuel Marchbanks_, by Robertson Davies.) Eventually you had
to remove the ashes and get them hauled to the dump. Once that
service was performed, I imagine, the whole house was permeated with a
pleasant sense of blockages cleared, things working right, slowly
built-up urgencies being taken care of for a while.
--
Jerry Friedman
Tony Cooper
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Not quite. I grew up in houses with coal furnaces in the basement, and
with the job of removing the ashes. Every day one had to shake a lever
on the side of the furnace to get the ashes to fall
from the furnace area to the area below. Then, one shoveled out the
ashes into metal tubs with rope handles. Once a week, the ash tubs had
to be hauled outside for the city to pick up. Some of the ashes were
saved to spread on the driveway to give traction on the ice.
Coal ash is a fine, yellowish powder that permeates through the whole
house. Shake the furnace and the ashes waft upstairs. Shovel the ashes
and more ash fly gets in the air. A person would leave the furnace with
a dusting of ashes in his hair, on his clothes, and leave a gritty
residue in the mouth. There's usually hot clinkers in the ash, and if
you urinate in the ash tub the entire house will smell of burnt urine
within seconds. Don't ask me how I know.
If "getting your ashes hauled" is a metaphor for the real thing, then
it's a dirty job and hardly enjoyable.
--
Tony Cooper aka: Tony_Co...@Yahoo.com
Provider of Jots & Tittles
Pat Durkin
"Jerry Friedman" <jerry_f...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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My understanding is the same as yours, Jerry.
Despite what Tony describes, when the ashes are hauled, the furnace
works better. If the food doesn't taste as good, if the eyes burn,
etc., etc., etc, then dampers need adjustment to provide for better
burning, and chimneys need cleaning or repair, etc.
I know we had a thread about using periods and commas. And I know that
one "etc." is sufficient, but I stand with the King of Siam.
Mike Barnes
>I grew up in houses with coal furnaces in the basement, and
>with the job of removing the ashes. Every day one had to shake a lever
>on the side of the furnace to get the ashes to fall
>from the furnace area to the area below. Then, one shoveled out the
>ashes into metal tubs with rope handles. Once a week, the ash tubs had
>to be hauled outside for the city to pick up.
In the UK the people that picked them up were called "dustmen". Even
today, municipal refuse collectors are "dustmen".
--
Mike Barnes
Feckless
"Jerry Friedman" <jerry_f...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Pretty much the same idea as getting your pipes cleaned.
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