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Ask Dr. Helen: The 47-Year-Old Virgin

January 23, 2008 - 12:45 am - by Helen Smith
Benson
2008-01-23 22:23:50

LOL! So you youngsters don’t know the expression, “getting one’s hat blocked,” eh? Then I’ll bet you also never heard it referred to as having your ashes hauled!

“I need my ashes hauled” or “I got my hat blocked yesterday” both refer to sexual intercourse. Yes, the expressions are dated, but they have a quaint charm, IMHO, and deserve to be preserved.

Change of mood:

As for the topic under discussion — well, I despair. There is no hope. People will go on suffering needlessly because it’s futile to point out that the value system that causes this misery is a childish, selfish and inhumane mistake.

In this insane system, it’s the individual victim who has to get fixed, not the society that damaged him. That works to the benefit of therapists, but….

As the sarcastic old song says:

Oh, Dr. Freud,
Oh, Dr. Freud,
How we wish you had been otherwise employed!
This state of circumstances
Just enhances the finances
Of the followers of Dr. Signmumd Freud!