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deelix
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 Posted: Fri, 25th Nov 2011 16:13 Post subject: I wont ever see the logic in this slang/term |
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Nov 2011 16:17 Post subject: |
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Family jewel balls?
Tractor cheapo scrotum?
"should of" instead of "should have"????
I demand we talk about this matter!
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Nov 2011 16:17 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | The phrase family jewels is a Victorian era euphemism for testicles, or more generally for the male's ability to procreate.
In the late Victorian period it was vulgar and offensive even to refer to the leg of a table, let alone to the leg of a person. The word "limb" was used for both leg and arm to avoid such unsuitable language. In this environment something more delicate was needed to refer to war wounds and other injuries that made a man unable to procreate, or perhaps uninterested in sex.
Because family wealth was often held as jewels, and their loss could ruin a family, the term was a favored choice in literature to describe the loss of a man's ability to create or continue a family line. ("He lost the family jewels.") |
Or another source saying it's a much more recent invention:
| Quote: | | Colloquial family jewels "testicles" is from 1920s, but jewel as "testicle" dates to late 15c. |
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deelix
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M4trix
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Nov 2011 17:38 Post subject: |
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ixigia
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Nov 2011 17:51 Post subject: |
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and suddenly you feel some itching
..i think you know what happens then men xD 
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Nov 2011 18:17 Post subject: |
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Ew you guys are disgusting :/ Shave and/or get circumcised 
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deelix
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ixigia
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Nov 2011 19:39 Post subject: |
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| deelix wrote: | I wonder if there is a certain nfohump user that recognizes those balls... who posted them online back in 2007  |
I think now the most important question would be, why have you stored them for 4 years   |
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Nov 2011 20:28 Post subject: |
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Shave the jewels but DONT smell them :s
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gromar
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Nov 2011 23:32 Post subject: |
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gromar
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deelix
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