On Nov 26, 11:29 am, "Glenn Dowdy" wrote:
"Jeb" wrote in message

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Besides, what sailor would ever want to sail on "the Big Dick", "the
Big Johnson", or "the Big Willie"?

This is intended as both rhetorical and ironic, right?

Yeah, pretty much. I was going for a chuckle or two. I once wrote a
paper in college defining the .44 Magnum in "Taxi Driver" as a phallic
substitue for Travis Bickle.