SPIT

Happy Thanksgiving.  It is a day of overindulgence , over eating, feeling so stuffed that one can't even move.  Well, that's how I feel ,, Like , why? why? why?
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Let's talk about  spit.  When I was maybe  11 years old I had a nickname Spit.  I've had several nicknames throughout my life. Some were, Chops, Spit, Fog, Dart, Fingers, Wigout, Qtips, Lip, Colonel,
   Anyway back to Spit.  There was a weird time when something hit me, that  spit was dirty and not to be swallowed.  So i would spit every ten seconds I think.  Hence the name of Spit. I had developed many techniques of spitting.  If you are going to spit you have to be cool about it, not gross about it. Did you ever see these gross dudes, hocking and getting up balls of phlegm. Then they spit and then hold their nostril and shoot a  snot rocket. Pretty damn disgusting.
  I was a cool spitter. I could spit between my teeth. It's not that easy to do. You kind of push your tongue behind your front teeth and it makes a sound and spit shoots out.  By the time I got to the 7th grade I lost the nick name spit. But didn't stop spitting. Just not as much. I mastered many techniques of spitting.  Dotting, was a very cool way to spit. It was like pitching underhand.  You lifted the spit out from that reservoir in your lower mouth and gracefully pushed it up  through or past your bottom teeth and a dot of spit would come out and fly a good distance. My friend Manny was the best dotter I've seen.  It is an almost silent spit.  Manny used to dot a lot on the guy sitting in front of him in class. It was  pretty cool at the time.  Now in a spit fight, you really want to get  some  phlegm up and really shoot it out.  I think I could shoot a phlegm ball a good 12 feet.  Some would  call it  "hocking a louie or loogie".Spitting was an important  skill in East New York.  Spit balls were popular. Where you spit a tiny piece of  notebook paper.  In any case my favorite type of spitting was the  thru the top teeth making that  squeeshy sound.  I  have lost most of my skill over  years of not practicing. But I can still make the sound, just the projectile is weak.