Stan K-B wrote on "better options among shagbark trees"...: "a naughty reading (perish the thought): shag (copulate) + bark (doggie fashion) BUT, the Brit 'shag' in that sense seems out of CK's 'register'?"

 

Good Grief! 

I started the entire shag rag  because I disliked the insistent mention by Shade ( not by CK) of what sounded as "heavy", or "clumsy" to my innocent ears: it now seems that I was just wildly censoring naughty thoughts..
One may say "shaggy dog" and a bark is also a bark is also a bark... 

Jansy

 

[EDNOTE.  Perhaps this conversation, too, has shifted away from its relevance to VN.  Let's move on.  SES]