that depends. what's spongeworthy? (a sheltered lad am i...)
LOL! From Seinfeld - Elaine's favourite contraceptive, the sponge,went out of production.
She got hold of a carton of them, and thereafter, because the supply was limited, every prospective partner was assessed for his sponge-worthiness - that is, was he good enough to expend a sponge on?
Debs - thanks for the reminder.
I loved the "master of my own domain" episode too...not to mention all the rest!
Coincidentally, according to the Chinese calendar, I was born in the year of the sponge.
Oh Worthy of Worthies! Come into my Parlour!
Don't u think calling a condom "sponge" is a bit funny - it being full of holes and all....
In India we use this insult fairly often - son of a broken condom !
...are you...talking to me???
The sponge IS a sponge!!!!! A real sponge!
Now - all you menfolk - cat got your tongues? Is this ma'am thing good or bad? The mins were very fond of me indeed at the times the nickname was used....
Gautam - the sponge was a genuine alternative, not a broken condom...spermicidally enhanced, I believe.
Never came across one (no pun intended!)
Deb
Actually, I've kind of thieved a joke here from Woody Allen. In the mid-sixties, when his genius was becoming evident and broadly appreciated, he was given an hour long TV show of the variety variety. One of the guests he invited was Billy Grapham. I can't recall much in the way of specifics, but I recall my mother and I convulsing with Woody's wit engaging that windbag with big hair. But at the end of the show, the two of them fielded questions from the audience. One particpant inquired, "If you could be any animal, what would it be?" Grapham pondered, head tilted up and to the side a bit, brow furrowed. "A lion," he intoned majestically. Woody, without pause, "A sponge".
ahhhhh, that kills me! i actually did that lol thing. don't do that very often. seeking help, lolling about on the floor...
eheheee, i like that. ma'am is most definitely good. it shows you commanded some respect, faked or real, don't matter. you should have a reunion of yer men and have a colloqium on the subject. and they better come on time and speak only when they're asked! (yes, ma'am.)
They SOOOOOOOOOO have never been those kind of men!
they would tease me unmercifully, and refuse to co-operate, and have a party!
LOL to the sponge too - though, I think being suffocated, dried, and pumped full of spermicide, put in a box, popped up where the sun don't shine, and pounded with the head of a penis lacks a little romance, don't you think?
Oh, and I suppose you land in the loo then, and end up at the sewerage farm?
"Ma'am" can carry very different shades of meaning, all of which play on it as something you are supposed to use on generally older and sexually unavailable women. Of course, tongue can be in cheek and "yes, ma'am" can mean, "Anything -- and I mean anything -- you want, darlin'."
It can also mean, "If I do this, will you go away, and quietly? Your leave and nothing I would more willingly part withal, including my life, and all that. Just go, already, and let me try to wipe the memory of you from my brain."
Or anywhere between. Honestly, we need more to go on.
Well, as I say, it was just used as a pet name - you know - like Debs and Debbickles and Gorgeous and Ma'am..... it wasn't "yes ma'am" and such....
