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No matter how old we are, there is still a 14 year old boy that lives inside all of us.

Marplot, you're a breath of fresh air for sure. Over the years posts like " How do I clean my balls ?" and " How to fix a stiff cock ? ", etc. have popped up and we turn back into that 14 year old boy.
 
The word "pistol" actually came from the Italian town of Pistoia! A relatively small town, but supposedly where the little, hand held gun, the pistol, was first made! Seems there was a fellow named Vitelli who first created these hand held guns! But I was on my honeymoon with a very fetching girl (then), so I might be wrong! 😁
 
Wife is already cackling about ML terminology. Cock, half-cock, full cock, of course Ramrod, ball, patching a ball, ball size, lube in a variety of kinds - Bore butter, toilet bowl cleaner, "one hole" patterns, strippers, -- got any more?

Any of your wives and "significant others" also laughing? Keep it clean, please! Family forum, here.
Perhaps she should think that the terms that she finds amusing were in guns first and sex later.
 
The word "pistol" actually came from the Italian town of Pistoia! A relatively small town, but supposedly where the little, hand held gun, the pistol, was first made! Seems there was a fellow named Vitelli who first created these hand held guns! But I was on my honeymoon with a very fetching girl (then), so I might be wrong! 😁
A variation shows up in graffiti in Pompey
But you may be right that pistols were made there
But think on the origin of a name like Pistoia
 
Yes, but I’m thinking sexual connotations are nothing new.
The armor or groin closure was a cod piece. There was no doubt about what a man’s ‘cod’ was
Pistol was drawn from slang that predates guns. Mast or spar and cover all were sexual slangs
You stick your knife in a sheath, but sheath in Latin wasn’t a place for a knife
A male horse has a sheath. He usually keeps his tool in his sheath unless he is using it.
 
Wife is already cackling about ML terminology. Cock, half-cock, full cock, of course Ramrod, ball, patching a ball, ball size, lube in a variety of kinds - Bore butter, toilet bowl cleaner, "one hole" patterns, strippers, -- got any more?

Any of your wives and "significant others" also laughing? Keep it clean, please! Family forum, here.
'Cock' related terminology comes from observing a rooster, especially a dominant male, the 'cock of the walk', so producing all sorts of sexual innuendo. The cock, or hammer of a flintlock especially, looks very much like a rooster's head with the flint held in the beak. The curve of the neck of the hammer is functionally unnecessary (it would work just as well if straight) but reproduces the elegant lines of the head, neck, and chest of a rooster, especially in the round faced lock designs. 'Pecker' comes from the pecking action that cocks use when searching for food. Roosters (and all birds) are modern descendants of certain dinosaurs, so metaphors related to them probably originated in the paleolithic cultures.
 
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Wife is already cackling about ML terminology. Cock, half-cock, full cock, of course Ramrod, ball, patching a ball, ball size, lube in a variety of kinds - Bore butter, toilet bowl cleaner, "one hole" patterns, strippers, -- got any more?

Any of your wives and "significant others" also laughing? Keep it clean, please! Family forum, here.
It's all in your mind, if that's the kind of mind that you have. Semper Fi.
 
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