RE: [lojban] RE: Re:RE: beggars

[A Rosta <a.rosta@UCLAN.AC.UK>]

> From: pycyn@aol.com
>
> << >And sodomites are prohibited from fellatio.
>
>  .uanaicai >>
>
> Old joke: "Buggers can't be chewers"  Mix a little sex into the spam for a
> totally tasteful mess -- and generate MUCH more mail.

Well, in the spirit of generating off-topic mail, could I ask what
currency "chew(er)" has, in this sense? I've only come across it in
Golding's superb Rites of Passage trilogy, where the reader realizes
what had happened only when a character mmisconstrues "I never thought
I'd get a chew off a parson" as a chew of tobacco. When I was growing
up, a _chewy_ was what you'd call a _hickey_. (Also, irrelevantly,
it's best known sense in England is 'chewing gum'.)

 --And.