“My folks had a saying: the fact your dog has fleas is no reason to open your home to a wolf.” “My dad used that one, too. But he said, wife, rash, bed, and whore,” Winsen said. Goss said, “A lesson he had to learn the hard way, no doubt.” Ferkudi laughed with them. Then he said, “I don’t get it.” “It’s one of those things, Ferk,” Goss said. “Where if you explain it, it doesn’t work?” Ferkudi asked. He was familiar with those. “Flesh protuberance!” Worst swear ever. Second worst, maybe. For a while he’d used ‘proboscis.’
