Need help. What did they have to sweep up after women during church services in the old days

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Posted: 6/28/2012 7:28:24 PM EDT

Clumps of junk falling out of the "junction". For the life of me I can't fucking remember the name of them. Google is no help either. The power of arfcom can surely deliver.

Posted: 6/28/2012 7:34:33 PM EDT

[#1]

Like something balls or dust something. Fuck. It's really a benign term, and I learned it here.

Posted: 6/28/2012 7:38:17 PM EDT

[#2]

Posted: 6/28/2012 7:39:03 PM EDT

[#3]

Sootikins.

Posted: 6/28/2012 7:40:56 PM EDT

[#4]

First we lose the most important USSC (fuck be upon them) case of our lifetimes, and now this?

Posted: 6/28/2012 7:41:33 PM EDT

[#5]

Sootikins.

Posted: 6/28/2012 7:44:08 PM EDT

[#6]

Ok. I just googled "sootikin". That is seriously revolting.

Posted: 6/28/2012 7:44:20 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
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First we lose the most important USSC (fuck be upon them) case of our lifetimes, and now this?

Fuck the USSC, FUCK Pigmonkey and his wookie whore, and sootikins is the answer!

Posted: 6/28/2012 7:45:22 PM EDT

[#8]

wtf

Sootikin or Sutikin

A small, mouse-shaped deposit formed in the
vaginal cleft, usually of poorer women who did not wear undergarments -
common until the nineteenth century. A sootikin built up over several
weeks, even months, of not washing. It was composed of particles of
soot, dirt, sweat, smegma (qv) and vaginal and menstrual discharge. When
it reached a certain size and weight, it tended to work loose and drop
from under the woman's skirt.

Contemporary writings, including those of Pepys and Boswell, mention
men employed in London churches to sweep up sootikin after services.
There even exists one scurrilous account, from an anonymous source, of a
tell-tale sootikin being allegedly found under - or suspiciously close
to - Queen Anne's chair in St. Paul's Cathedral during the Thanksgiving
service for the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.

Posted: 6/28/2012 7:47:17 PM EDT

[#9]

Wonder what international body we need to petition to rename them "Scotusikins"?

Posted: 6/28/2012 7:47:47 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
wtf

Sootikin or Sutikin

A small, mouse-shaped deposit formed in the vaginal cleft, usually of poorer women who did not wear undergarments - common until the nineteenth century. A sootikin built up over several weeks, even months, of not washing. It was composed of particles of soot, dirt, sweat, smegma (qv) and vaginal and menstrual discharge. When it reached a certain size and weight, it tended to work loose and drop from under the woman's skirt.

Contemporary writings, including those of Pepys and Boswell, mention men employed in London churches to sweep up sootikin after services. There even exists one scurrilous account, from an anonymous source, of a tell-tale sootikin being allegedly found under - or suspiciously close to - Queen Anne's chair in St. Paul's Cathedral during the Thanksgiving service for the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.

Aaaaaand that is why their wasn't many lesbians in the 19th Century poorer classes.

Posted: 6/28/2012 7:47:57 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Sootikins.

WINNER! of 1,000,000 obamabucks.

obamabucks actually carry negative value. I PM'd my PayPal info to you for payment

Posted: 6/28/2012 7:48:15 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Ok. I just googled "sootikin". That is seriously revolting.

The good old days...

Posted: 6/28/2012 7:48:16 PM EDT

[#13]

The fuck?????
I've been going to church for over 49 years...you need a hobby

Posted: 6/28/2012 7:50:01 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
The fuck?????
I've been going to church for over 49 years...you need a hobby

csb

Posted: 6/28/2012 7:50:54 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

wtf

Sootikin or Sutikin

A small, mouse-shaped deposit formed in the vaginal cleft, usually of poorer women who did not wear undergarments - common until the nineteenth century. A sootikin built up over several weeks, even months, of not washing. It was composed of particles of soot, dirt, sweat, smegma (qv) and vaginal and menstrual discharge. When it reached a certain size and weight, it tended to work loose and drop from under the woman's skirt.

Contemporary writings, including those of Pepys and Boswell, mention men employed in London churches to sweep up sootikin after services. There even exists one scurrilous account, from an anonymous source, of a tell-tale sootikin being allegedly found under - or suspiciously close to - Queen Anne's chair in St. Paul's Cathedral during the Thanksgiving service for the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:00:00 PM EDT

[#16]

I wish I could unlearn that word.

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:02:08 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
wtf

Sootikin or Sutikin

A small, mouse-shaped deposit formed in the vaginal cleft, usually of poorer women who did not wear undergarments - common until the nineteenth century. A sootikin built up over several weeks, even months, of not washing. It was composed of particles of soot, dirt, sweat, smegma (qv) and vaginal and menstrual discharge. When it reached a certain size and weight, it tended to work loose and drop from under the woman's skirt.

Contemporary writings, including those of Pepys and Boswell, mention men employed in London churches to sweep up sootikin after services. There even exists one scurrilous account, from an anonymous source, of a tell-tale sootikin being allegedly found under - or suspiciously close to - Queen Anne's chair in St. Paul's Cathedral during the Thanksgiving service for the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.

I can't believe I've never heard of this before.

It reminds me of the time during my OBGYN rotation in med school when an elderly woman came into the office. She had a pessary inserted two years earlier. She didn't realize that she was supposed to remove it for cleaning periodically. The smell when the doctor removed it was penetrating.

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:11:15 PM EDT

[#18]

Learn something new every day

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:16:28 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Learn something new every day

Sometimes I wish I didn't learn something new every day.

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:33:46 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Learn something new every day

Sometimes I wish I didn't learn something new every day.

Indeed. TMI applies here. I did not need to nor have I ever wanted to learn this particular bit of information.

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:40:36 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Learn something new every day

Not only did I learn about sootikins, I also know what a pessary is now. Thanks Arfcom.

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:45:25 PM EDT

[#22]

"A small, mouse-shaped deposit"

Sounds like teh pussy spat out a mouse.

Somebody wasn't getting any nookie

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:49:18 PM EDT

[#23]

I too learned about sootikins on the Arf.

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:50:58 PM EDT

[#24]

Smegma is actually not a funny term?

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:51:05 PM EDT

[#25]

the word sootikins sounds so pleasant and unassuming...

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:51:51 PM EDT

[#26]

TMI

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:53:12 PM EDT

[#27]

- Clint

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:54:35 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Clumps of junk falling out of the "junction". For the life of me I can't fucking remember the name of them. Google is no help either. The power of arfcom can surely deliver.

Sootikins.

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:54:44 PM EDT

[#29]

I wonder how they taste.

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:57:29 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
I wonder how they taste.

Well, if she's 90...depends.

Posted: 6/28/2012 8:57:43 PM EDT

[#31]

Eat the pussy, spit out the mouse. Real men back then.

Posted: 6/28/2012 9:21:00 PM EDT

[#32]

eeew... how did I not know this term til now?

I dont feel I have been missing out though... thats a pretty gnarly level of filth..... thats beyond crusty.

Posted: 6/28/2012 9:27:39 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Learn something new every day

Sometimes I wish I didn't learn something new every day.

From Sootikans to videos of live people being eviscerated and de-limbed by chainsaws. Something for everybody.

Posted: 6/28/2012 9:29:01 PM EDT

[#34]

Before this thread, I would have thought that was a term of endearment. Thank you all so very much for a factoid that has in no way made my life richer.

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Posted: 6/28/2012 9:33:36 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Before this thread, I would have thought that was a term of endearment. Thank you all so very much for a factoid that has in no way made my life richer.

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Au contraire sir, now you can pass that knowledge on.

Posted: 6/28/2012 9:35:23 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Learn something new every day

Sometimes I wish I didn't learn something new every day.

From Sootikans to videos of live people being eviscerated and de-limbed by chainsaws. Something for everybody.

This thread in its entirety is disgusting, but for some reason I'm laughing my ass off.

Posted: 6/28/2012 9:37:01 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Smegma is actually not a funny term?

Your nickname in highschool?

Posted: 6/28/2012 9:39:18 PM EDT

[#38]

Just think guys...back when sootikins were more common amongst poor women, a lot more poor people went barefoot too.

Posted: 6/29/2012 4:04:39 AM EDT

[#39]

Google "blue waffle" to get rid of the unpleasant taste of sootikins.

Posted: 6/29/2012 5:25:28 AM EDT

[#40]

I don't suppose a historical picture of one of those exists?

Posted: 6/29/2012 5:29:25 AM EDT

[#41]

No wonder the British didn't think much of sex back then.

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Posted: 6/29/2012 5:33:11 AM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
I wish I could unlearn that word.

Damn straight.

Posted: 6/29/2012 5:36:26 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:

Ok. I just googled "sootikin". That is seriously revolting.

Naw, C'Mon, you can start a collection on these from all over the town.

Label them and put them in a shadow box and you'll never run out of things to talk about at partys.

Posted: 6/29/2012 5:51:16 AM EDT

[#44]

Well, who says that you don't learn something new on ARF every day

Posted: 6/29/2012 5:52:42 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:

Like something balls or dust something. Fuck. It's really a benign term, and I learned it here.

Updoc.

Posted: 6/29/2012 5:58:52 AM EDT

[#46]

Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat where have you been?
I've been to London to look at the Queen.
Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat, what did you there?
I frightened a little mouse under a her chair.

Posted: 6/29/2012 5:59:13 AM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:

I don't suppose a historical picture of one of those exists?

Are you asking for a 200+ year old picture of a sootikin, or a picture of a 200+ year old sootikin. Either way, that's just nasty.

Bizarre random thoughts
A 200+ year old picture of a sootikin, would that be a woodcut? Aren't beavers good at cutting wood? Aren't dirty beavers where sootikins formed? Do we come full circle here? Do I need more coffee this morning?