A long time ago I joined a company and was soon paired up with a deaf guy, Chuck. We had to go install and service various equipment. I worked on learning sign language, but we otherwise communicated with various gestures. We drove through the rural part of the MSU campus to get to many of our locations. The rural south campus is devoted to agriculture. Horses, cows, swine research, chicken research, even a mink breeding facility. And of course the sheep.
The laborious nature of sign language (to me)meant we did basic communication, but a lot of little throw away comments I might normally make didn't happen. I would wonder sometimes about the richness of such communicastions between the deaf.
One day I explained to Chuck the "other use" for sheep. Chuck had never know of this, and was highly amused. So of course you know me, anything worth doing is worth overdoing. SO I explained to him what "sheep boots" were. Farm boys wear large loose fitting boots, they can drop the ewe's hind legs into them and she can;t get away during alternative use.
Chuck had his own ideas too. He'd point to a pig in the field, make fuck gestures then indicate with his finger a corkscrew motion. He was thinking about the pig's curly tail, not realizing the pig's penis was indeed screw shaped.
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http://www.straightdope.com/columns/rea ... aped-penis
CHuck was amazed. I don't think he was ever the same.
Even today, when the wife and I drive past a sheep in a field, I look at her and sing "It had to be ewe..." To which wring inevitably replies, "Asshole."