I had heard a different story Arkady. The way I heard it (from my boot camp drill sargeant), that term came from the field treatment given to servicement who had contracted that STD and were having difficulty urinating due to blockage in the urethra. A corpsman would place one palm on the side of the serviceman’s penis and with the other would violently “clap” it – thus clearing the blockage enough to get him through the next few days.
The tree outside my front window is all ablossom with beatuiful white tiny flowers. It’s only about 10 years old. I think the old rosebush in the backyard is finally and truly dead. Evil plant- evil. Nastiest thorns you’ve ever seen. Flowers? Meh.
“scantily clad classical Greek figures dancing across the bathrooom wall in a black and white in a winsome fashion suggesting a decadent ancient bath ritual”
Ugh. Finally logged into work. I am so not going to be productive today.
I had heard a different story Arkady. The way I heard it (from my boot camp drill sargeant), that term came from the field treatment given to servicement who had contracted that STD and were having difficulty urinating due to blockage in the urethra. A corpsman would place one palm on the side of the serviceman’s penis and with the other would violently “clap” it – thus clearing the blockage enough to get him through the next few days.
Just to ring my chimes, dibs.
During my routine physical.
Arkady, do you have a Clapper???
Venereal disease referred to as ‘clap’ comes from the mid-to-early 1600s via French – clapoir meaning swelling or buboes.
I also read an article that gonorrhea is becoming highly resistant to the only type of antibiotic that is effective in treating it.
(my apologies if this was already discussed above)
The tree outside my front window is all ablossom with beatuiful white tiny flowers. It’s only about 10 years old. I think the old rosebush in the backyard is finally and truly dead. Evil plant- evil. Nastiest thorns you’ve ever seen. Flowers? Meh.
“scantily clad classical Greek figures dancing across the bathrooom wall in a black and white in a winsome fashion suggesting a decadent ancient bath ritual”
Sounds like dave’s kind of wallpaper.
“The scary part of syphillis was that I didn’t even know I had it the one time I got it.”
So how did you figure it out that you had it?