rollin:
I believe in Freud, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and sometimes a ping pong paddle is just a bat to hit a little white ball with.
Ahhhh, yeah, sure...Whatever you want to think, rollin, I've heard this line of pathetic blathering before.
"Rulers and yardsticks are measuring devices."
"Leather belts can be used to hold up people's pants."
"Wooden spoons and spatulas are cooking utensils."
"There are types of canes that increase individual mobility and stability."
"Bath brushes can be of assistance in personal ablutions."
"Riding crops are designed to be applied to the hindquarters of horses."
"Willow and birch branches are part of some sort of vegetation."
"Cricket bats are employed in some kind of sporting competition."
Once or twice, I've even been told that a hairbrush has a 'heads' side as well as a 'tails' one.
As Carl Jung once wrote, "It it seriously stings a human's naked buttocks, it's a spanking implement, period."
Maybe that was Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch instead, but the idea works either way...

--C.K.