What brings you trolling back, then?

the slanguage of the armed forces is one that few civvies can understand.

Why do I, a fairly educated sort of a swine, take such unseemly pleasure in the guttural utterances of my largely uneducated, foul-mouthed crews? Why, over the years, have my own language skills become so crude and offensive that at family Christmas I have to struggle to not say, 'Pass the fuckin' turkey, cocksucker'? I dunno. But I do love it.

“Flamingo is a … what’s the word?” She made a fist and knocked her knuckles lightly on her forehead. Finally, she snapped her fingers and said, “A transvestite!”

What of the butchers’ slang today? Is it as meaty as it clearly once was? The answer seems to be a partial yes: a typical day of lugging around freezing meat and breaking down animal carcasses is bound to produce some raw vocabulary. But if the language is sometimes rough, the skills are not. Butchery is an exact science, requiring the anatomical k