Originally Posted by Ziggurat
How does it being a silly answer preclude it from coming from your cultural memory? It can be silly and part of your memory all at the same time. It didn't come out of a vacum. Nothing comes from a vacum. Actually, I didn't think it was silly. Everyone knows that shells and the like were used as native currency and that shells and shiny trinkets from sailors bought native pussy by the score. So I too found your short line funny, give yourself some f*king credit
nice idea … vacuum we are not . True
much prefer this idea expressed around cockle shells …
Meanwhile, silver bells and cockle shells acted as colloquialisms for instruments of torture, where silver bells were thumbscrews used to crush the thumb between two hard surfaces and cockle shells were torture devices used on the victims genitals.[4
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