lexigraphy

Pissing and moaning, an odd combination methinks, so I went to the google machine and it derives from well, the clap, which makes pissing painful and hence causes the pisser to moan.  Not a very savory origin of the phrase, but then the phrase itself is disparaging.  It's not like people speaking up for what they think is right, it's more like just going on and on about something that there's nothing to be done about to the point of being annoying.

But what of the clap?  I had thought of it as a name for all STD's but apparently it is specific to gonorrhea, and it refers to, well an act similar to that storied boyhood activity of Left ball, Right ball, Smash the prick in the middle, with the act of applause taking the place of the left and right balls.  It was supposed to alleviate the symptoms, but it didn't, and it is not recommended by current medical science. 

And why is the clap, the syph, the measles, but on the other hand simply gonorrhea, syphilis, and pneumonia?  But perhaps we have had our dose (get it?) of high-toned lexigraphical discussion for the morning. 

I didn't mean echoing in the sense of repeating what Trump has said from hearing it, but simply saying the same thing, which is a loose usage of the word echo, so I apologize for my lax grammar and the resultant tarring of Beagles with the Trump brush.  But wait a minute wasn't Beagles a Bircher, and weren't the Birchers big fans of investigation?  Wasn't Tail Gunner Joe one of their heroes? 

Of course Beagles is no longer a Bircher, but I think his experience with them birthed his theory of them.  More likely Beagles early developed a theory of them and that is what lead him to become a Bircher.

Speaking of the 13th Amendment ( I stretch that speaking of thing a bit, it has a ring I like), how about the 19th that gave women the vote?  See, looking back from our progressive times who could imagine that an amendment to the beloved document was needed to prohibit slavery and suffrage?  What kind of people would would allow such things in the first place?