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Common masher.

Common masher?? My English is not so good. What is this? Foam you do not know me, but you say that I am not the one who I am? Not a big welcome. Maybe I will not stay long here.

A "masher" is a less than reputable man that likes to grope women and do inappropriate things to them. Karen is probably referring to me in her comment.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Masher

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Hello everyone. I'm new here and just wanted to say hi. I do not really know what to expect from this forum, but I hope that everything will be friendly.

Hello Sally. I'm old here and just wanted to say hi back. I do not really know what to expect from this forum either. We are all exceptionally friendly, even to those who claim to be females but aren't.

We'll have lots of fun here.  ;)  ;D  8)

Common masher.

Common masher?? My English is not so good. What is this? Foam you do not know me, but you say that I am not the one who I am? Not a big welcome. Maybe I will not stay long here.

I'm sorry, Sally.  It's a term from the late 19th early 20th Century (USA) used to describe a man who makes unwelcome sexual advances, often in public places and typically to women he does not know.  The term enjoyed a popular revival in the mid-20th Century when one of the characters in The Music Man used it in dialog:

Marian:

Mama, a man with a suitcase followed me home.

Mrs. Paroo:

Oh--Who?

Marian:

I never saw him before.

Mrs. Paroo:

Did he say anythin'?

Marian:

He tried.

Mrs. Paroo:

Did you say anythin'?

Marian:

Of course not, Mama!

Mrs. Paroo:

If you don't mind my sayin' so,

It wouldn't have hurt you to find out what the gentleman wanted.

Marian:

I know what the gentleman wanted.

Mrs. Paroo:

What, dear?

Marian:

You'll find it in Balzac.

Mrs. Paroo:

Excuse me fer livin' but I never read it.

Marian:

Neither has anyone else in this town.

Mrs. Paroo:

There you go again with the same old comment

about the low mentality of River City people,

and takin' it all to much to heart.

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Marian:

Mama, if you don't mind my sayin' so,

You have a bad habit of changin' ev'ry subject--

Mrs. Paroo:

Well, I haven't changed the subject!

I was talking about that stranger--

Marian:

What stranger?

Mrs. Paroo:

With the suitcase who may be your very last chance!

Marian:

Mama!  Do you think that I'd allow a common masher--

Now, really Mama!  I have my standards where men are concerned,

And I have no intention--

Mrs. Paroo:

I know all about your standards  And if you don't mind my sayin' so  There's not a man alive Who could hope to measure up to that blend'a  Paul Bunyan, Saint Pat and Noah Webster  You've got concocted for yourself outta your Irish imagination, your Iowa stubbornness, and your liberry fulla' books!

© 1962 Franklin Lacey and Meredith Wilson

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http://youtu.be/rroZXCYbqmc

At around the 17-minute mark.

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