At 08:25 AM 4/17/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>Unless "beat(ing) our birds" is another variation
on chicken choking.
>
>Hmmm... the Rat Pack as the ultimate circle jerk?
Well, there's always
>been something a little homoerotic about that flock
of over-the-hill frat
>boys and hangers-on-- all that buddy-buddy
male-bonding, the casual
>subjugation and demeaning of women, and the sometimes
desperate (and often
>infantile) macho posturing.
So let's make Packing the Rat an official RARA AVIS jerk-off
metaphor. We've already added Beating the Bird to all those
commonalities mentioned heretofore. How about a top 100 list?
I'd like to nominate Strangling the Cat.
Kerry
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