October 15, 2008

Even Cowboys Get the Blues
FOUND by Jill in Charlie's, Las Vegas, Nevada
I found this card in a stack of cards at a gay cowboy bar. It was the only one with a message written on it.
JellyBean in the Rubber Rose Ranch
eew eew eew..

Okay. Yeah. Please change the title. Uh huh. thank you.

I like how it looks like at first the author of the note was going to say CRABS (or something else that begins with a C..?) but went with scabs.
+ October 15, 2008 12:10 AM +
Flargy in New Haven, CT
Too much sharing is how you get into this kind of mess in the first place.
+ October 15, 2008 12:33 AM +
Effie in Oxfordshire
The term "breakout" makes me imagine that he had been keeping the lice in a little cage, possibly tucked safely under the scrotum, and they managed to pick the lock and get freeeeeeee!
+ October 15, 2008 12:47 AM +
Derek Windowjumper in South Portland, Maine
ahhh yes, the politics of genital herpes...I heard there was an erection coming up.

icky,icky,icky
+ October 15, 2008 12:48 AM +
the man behind the curtain in oz
sounds like cowboys get more than the blues.

ick.

what kind of scabs are treated with pills? I don't think the author had lice. and actually, kinda yeah, if you're going to share the problem, it would be nice if you'd shared the solution.
+ October 15, 2008 12:51 AM +
Night in gale
Creepy. Someone go google scabies.
+ October 15, 2008 01:01 AM +
Jan in the AFL-CIO headquarters
Scabs = non-union crabs and it'll take more than $250 to make them stay away. Pony up with the cash, cowboy.
+ October 15, 2008 01:16 AM +
sick in tired
Could be gonorrhea, which causes sores and scabbing.

My brothers had a little chant they used to do at odd moments...though I promise they had no firsthand experience of it (at least not at that age):
"I got the clap and the blue balls, too.
The clap don't hurt but the blue balls do."

Where they got this rhyme I have no idea.
+ October 15, 2008 02:18 AM +
darcy in my chair, still all sweaty from my walk in humid, hot Hawaii
@ Effie



HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
+ October 15, 2008 02:22 AM +
Geek NOT in my mom's basement
Now THIS is a Find. Private information (about someone's privates, no less). Unusual topic. It leads to happy nostalgia ("ah, I remember the 'clap and blue balls' song") and great comments from around the world.

Much better today.
+ October 15, 2008 04:07 AM +
Brokeback Genetalia in Wyoming
I REALLY wish I knew how to quit you.
+ October 15, 2008 06:23 AM +
Brokeback Genitalia in Wyoming
Sorry bout the typo on Genitalia.
+ October 15, 2008 06:26 AM +
Doctor Jones in dy
Makes one wonder...
Do scabs really suck down there?
And what was _Jill_ doing at a gay cowboy bar?
+ October 15, 2008 06:30 AM +
Librarian in the woodwork
Just rub on a good handful of Ben Gay ointment and you'll be good to go.
+ October 15, 2008 06:32 AM +
Mr Mojo Risin in Portage, IN.
Maybe Jill is really a Joe.
+ October 15, 2008 06:35 AM +
not just another mouth in the lipstick vogue
So, given the content of this note, why would our author choose to write "down there" instead of a more explicit term? It seems an odd bit of modesty that he/she has qualms about that, but has no problem with the act of writing this note or with writing "fucking scabs."

Any thoughts?
+ October 15, 2008 06:57 AM +
Librarian in the woodwork
@ not just another ... found in Las Vegas, so maybe "down there" means "in Mexico"
+ October 15, 2008 07:18 AM +
a girl in a cube
@ not just another mouth,

I think the modesty of "down there" is cute (sort of?)-- it shows a bit of tenderness to his feelings about what the other guy's got "down there..." But he is pissed off about those "fucking scabs."

So, the real question is, did they both already HAVE the STD in question, and this just triggered an outbreak? Or did only one have the STD, and just passed it on for the first time? Is it an incurable STD, or one that will go away?
+ October 15, 2008 07:23 AM +
Turbo in the Thunderdome
For Valentine's Day one year, I got scabies. But I wasn't rooting around a Vegas queer bar.
+ October 15, 2008 08:28 AM +
Norma Rae in the picket line
"Fucking scabs!"
+ October 15, 2008 08:33 AM +
Steph is puk in g
oooook....

So many questions, but I don't want the answer to any of them!!!
+ October 15, 2008 09:57 AM +
Lucky in Kentucky
"Focking Scabs" Heeheeheehee.
I'm a girl and I've been to an Irish Gay Piano Bar/Pub in Kentucky. I don't think there's anything weird about a girl going to a Gay Cowboy Bar.
+ October 15, 2008 10:07 AM +
Lets get busy in the back seat
@ Effie...

O M G your comments made me laugh out loud at my desk. People now think I'm nuts....well....more nuts!
By the way Gay Cowboy bars are the BEST!
+ October 15, 2008 10:44 AM +
Hiplainsdrifter in South Portland, Maine
$50 - for a new sleevless black tee
$175 - for some leather chaps
$120 for drinks and a gay ol' time on the town
$250 to rid myself of those fucking scabs
A life time of Herpes - Priceless!




or is it YIKES!


+ October 15, 2008 11:47 AM +
Librarian in the woodwork
I think it's "fockinh cs cabs" ... whate'er that means
+ October 15, 2008 12:00 PM +
Myrna in Greenville
One of my friend's daughters has herpes. She's only 15. She probably got it from one of the many boys she's slept with. so sad.
+ October 15, 2008 12:14 PM +
mlm in texas
My brother travels a lot for his job and stays in a lot of motels. One year, he came down with a horrible rash and went to the doctor. He told him it was mites, and prescribed him a lotion for it. When he dropped it off at the pharmacy, I guess the pharmacist didn't know he waiting in the benched area and my brother heard him exclaim, "Scabies Man!" when he went to fill the Rx.

"Scabies Man" is also a good name for a band.
+ October 15, 2008 12:31 PM +
lml in hootoo
Scabies Man is an excellent name for a really lousy band, mlm.

@ Jan..that is hilarious.
pony up, indeed.
+ October 15, 2008 12:34 PM +
brain problem situation in my head
LOL at lousy band!!!

Y'all want to know how to get rid of crabs?

You have to shave *half* your pubic hair, soak the other half in turpentine, light it on fire and when they run to bald half, stab them with an ice pick.

Let me tell you, it works.

+ October 15, 2008 01:29 PM +
Hiplainsdrifter in South Portland, Maine

@ brain problem situation in my head

Should you be lacking turpentine in my bathroomm I've found finger nail polish remover or rubbing alchol make a good substitute.

+ October 15, 2008 02:12 PM +
Lance Pants in a trance
I wonder if focking scabs are anything like panty crickets? And will boy pills work on both?
+ October 15, 2008 03:37 PM +
Derek Windowjumper in Hysterics
@ Lance Pants

Panty Crickets...well played
+ October 15, 2008 03:56 PM +
Hiplainsdrifter in South Portland, Maine
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_herpes_bumps_always_op

and

$250 for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aciclovir
+ October 15, 2008 04:01 PM +
jolenesummer in new york
What happens in vegas....
+ October 15, 2008 04:20 PM +
Lindsay working in a group home
Man, I totally read the word "breakout" as "breakfast" at first glance. COMPLETELY different thing...
+ October 15, 2008 04:34 PM +
Flargy in New Haven, CT
Lindsay...the latter, of course, being the much more pleasant of the two.
+ October 15, 2008 05:01 PM +
Mr Mojo Risin in Portage, IN.
@jolenesummer

What happens in Vegas....stays with you for awhile.
+ October 15, 2008 05:23 PM +
Smallbear in the Cave
Even Crabboys Get the Blues.
+ October 15, 2008 05:41 PM +
Laughing my Ass off in sitting far from you all
Has anyone figured out why this is so totally wrong yet? I hope all you homos loose your junk to disease then maybe morality will return to the Earth...
+ October 15, 2008 11:53 PM +
Michelle looking at the ground in New York, NY
@ Lindsay...me too. I was really confused at first.

@ Laughing...you make me sad.
+ October 16, 2008 01:25 AM +
Lets get busy in the back seat
@Laughing....Me thinks you protest too much...hmmm makes one wonder doen't it. Are there a few bones in your closet????
+ October 16, 2008 07:16 AM +
mlm in texas
I think my junk may already be "loose", Laughing. I mean, I AM forty, so it's bound to happen sometime, right?
+ October 16, 2008 11:00 AM +
baby basil in the herb garden
@mlm: In the immortal words of "Norma Rae": "I was good at 17; since then things have kinda slipped and slid." Or, being interpreted, at 40 you have everything you always did have, just lower down.

As for "Laughing", he obviously never had anything. Or anyone. And never will, with an attitude like that.
+ October 17, 2008 03:18 AM +

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