Why should I get the milk for free when I can just club the cow into submission?

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Okay so you know the "old" adage that every church goin' mom tells her high school daughter before she goes out on that "big" date (you know the milk and cow one)? Where did that saying originate from (cuz it doesn't make a lot of sense in the context it's currently used and I am hoping that it was originally like some Confucian thing that's been butchered beyond compare by weirdo Americans)?

Is there a website that lists "old" sayings and their origins?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know the specific origin of the phrase, but how does it not make sense? Cow = girl, milk = sex, purchase = marriage ... = why go to the trouble and expense of getting married when you're already getting the benefits of marriage for free?

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 07:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Perhaps it's not so much non-sensical as it is insulting. The origin would help though since I'm not entirely sure that your reading of "marriage = free sex" is one that mom's have had since the beginning of time.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Not since the beginning of time, no, but "the right of the marriage bed" (free sex) is still in many lawbooks (and isn't enforced except as grounds for divorce, but that isn't the point).

Insulting maybe, but welcome to the past -- they did things differently.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 07:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, what's the proverb in question? It's not one I've ever heard, I think.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought it was about masturbation.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Y'know - clubbing the cow...

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

We got it Nick, we just didn't wanna encourage you....

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The actual proverb which I shamelessly failed to include in my original post is: "why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?"

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

This actually means, if you keep giving the man "free" sexual favours, he won't bother marrying you

― Heave Ho, Thursday, 27 September 2007 01:31 (eighteen years ago)

it is basically true for a lot of men

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 27 September 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

The reverse is true. If a woman won't screw you single, then imagine what a witch she'll be when married! Talk about quid-pro-quo!

― libcrypt, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:14 (eighteen years ago)

The same probably holds for men, but I don't know many men who withhold sexual favours.

― libcrypt, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:15 (eighteen years ago)

Not that I've requested a lot of sexual favours from men, mind you.

― libcrypt, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:15 (eighteen years ago)

That last comment is irrelevant.

― libcrypt, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:16 (eighteen years ago)

also untrue?

― Heave Ho, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:25 (eighteen years ago)

I never found that website. :(

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:27 (eighteen years ago)

How do you know how many sexual favors libcrypt has requested?

Obviously most men who deny "sexual favors" to women are men who aren't very interested in having sex with women.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:29 (eighteen years ago)

In truth, I have spurned the sexual advances of several women, but I have never had sexual congress with a man.

― libcrypt, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:33 (eighteen years ago)

The phrase "sexual congress" always makes me laugh. I WONDER WHAT THE ORIGIN OF THAT IS, eh! I should start a thread asking about it!

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

definite frat-funk band name possibility, in any case

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:36 (eighteen years ago)

Alex SF enjoys anal congress with goats

― Heave Ho, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:36 (eighteen years ago)

Sexual congress just means a few hundred middle-aged-to-old white men making sweet love in a building with a roof like a supple breast.

― libcrypt, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:37 (eighteen years ago)

Haha those Anthony 3am threads from my graveyard days are deeply weird.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

x-post - I thought that was a lemon party.

― luna, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

At my church they'd say, "Who would want to eat a piece of toast after everyone had licked all the butter off it?" This was far worse a metaphor.

― Abbott, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:44 (eighteen years ago)

This was not an offer for a snack, btw, it was saying once another man had sex with you that you were spoiled produce.

― Abbott, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:45 (eighteen years ago)

"Who would want to eat a piece of toast after everyone had licked all the butter off it?"

AWESOME!

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:46 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously I bet your church is FILLED with food fetishists haha!

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

Mormon sex involves a lot of licking and foodstuffs then does it? :D

― Trayce, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

aarrrr xpost hehehe

― Trayce, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

Stupid fucking breeders and their food fetishes. Try and pour cold duck on me and you'll get goosed.

― Abbott, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

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