OH, YES!

[Honor]

Pretty....confusing. That's what.

Um... Ok. If you say so.

Did you know that a faggot is used for lighting a fire?

Actually, a fagot is a bundle of such small stick as might individually be used to assist in lighting a fire, but in order to become a fagot, they are bound, bundled together to use as fuel. There are, however, several uses that fall into extending the term to the singular, as in "a bundle of fagots"

Did you know that a dork is a penis?

Yep... Along with dick, knob, pud, peter, pecker, wang, schlong, cock, todger, tadger, weasel, percy, john-thomas, old fella, tiny johnson, and willie the one-eyed wonder worm... To name but a few.

Did you know that a dude is a pachaderm's butt hair?

Altogether possible, somewhere, but the sense in which it's usually used comes from an old german word meaning "fool".

Anything else to add peoples?

Wellll.... Did you know that Square Meal, three sheets to the wind, son of a gun, shake a leg, above board, all hands, deep six, scraping the bottom of the barrel, scuttlebutt, deadwood, knowing the ropes, dressed to the nines, dutch treat, over a barrel, field days and fillibusters, chock full, taken aback, figurehead, fly by night, close quarters, clean bill of health, half-cocked and hard up, passed with flying colors, cut & run, cup of joe, running the gauntlett and rubbing salt in the wounds, and the whole nine yards are all terms taken from the age of sail days of the Royal Navy?

Did you know that lemmata (dictionary headings), book, play, song, and movie titles have come from William Shakespeare than any other single source?

[Swordsman3003]

I did not. Amazing!

[Squidflakes]

Corrections:

Whole 9 yards was a fighter pilot's term from WW2 meaning to unload the entire 9 yard belt of .50 cal ammo in to a target.

Son of a gun was a civil war era term for the child of an unmarried woman who "mysteriously" became preggers, while her husband was away fighting.

Half cocked was from the revolutionary war period (could have also been used by navies, but is thought to originate with the ground infantry) meaning the striker on your rifle was only pulled back far enough to allow loading powder into the flash pan.

My favorite naval phrase though, is cold enough to freeze the balls on a brass monkey.

[Tellner]

My favorite naval phrase though, is cold enough to freeze the balls on a brass monkey.

And who could forget "Shot his wad" - loading powder and wadding but not a bullet.

[Swordsman3003]

Ah yes. And "Let the cat out of the bag" comes from the navy too. the cat o' nine tails was an instument of punishment.

[Tellner]

I'd heard it a little differently. It was the punchline to "buying a pig in a poke"

[Kingofthemorlocks]

We tend to use "rape" as in "Why don't you come over here and rape the hell out of me." to denote really rough, aggressive sex, so after that comic, the term "rape whistle" is part of our sexual vocabulary.

Oh my God...my friend Johanna at lunch today showed us a comic that a friend of hers drew, of her and another girl as stick figures (Johanna has huge breasts though, and these were depicted in the comic), at first innocently talking on the phone with each other and then the one girl invites Johanna to come over by saying, "I know! Let's rape each other!" and the entire comic is just this happening over and over again, interspersed with scenes of bosomy stick-figure lesbian sex.

[Toawa]

Oh my God...my friend Johanna at lunch today showed us a comic that a friend of hers drew, of her and another girl as stick figures (Johanna has huge breasts though, and these were depicted in the comic), at first innocently talking on the phone with each other and then the one girl invites Johanna to come over by saying, "I know! Let's rape each other!" and the entire comic is just this happening over and over again, interspersed with scenes of bosomy stick-figure lesbian sex.

I'd bet that if the artist were male, and one of the characters were male, he'd be shot. Or at least suspended. Certainly forced into therapy, possibly forced onto psychotropics. (I suspect that this wouldn't be as noticable because of the "well known fact" that "women can't rape").

(The tone of this post should not be construed as indicating any past experiences; I just tend to get ticked off by double/triple/zentuple standards.)

[Swordsman3003]

Well, maybe not force penetration or anything, but there is more than one way to be raped. And women can molest you know.

[Honor]

Corrections:

Whole 9 yards was a fighter pilot's term from WW2 meaning to unload the entire 9 yard belt of .50 cal ammo in to a target.

Son of a gun was a civil war era term for the child of an unmarried woman who "mysteriously" became preggers, while her husband was away fighting.

Half cocked was from the revolutionary war period (could have also been used by navies, but is thought to originate with the ground infantry) meaning the striker on your rifle was only pulled back far enough to allow loading powder into the flash pan.

My favorite naval phrase though, is cold enough to freeze the balls on a brass monkey.

That's it, pal... My sources, your sources, behind the gym, after school!!

And I've got over seven shelf feet of books on naval history & sailing...

Whole nine yards. My Sources point toward the side view of a full masted ship of the line, counting each of three yard arms on each of three masts... But ignoring that some have more or less yard arms per side. Yours ignores that the various fighters in use during WWII used different amounts of ammo supply, and there is no recorded instance of common use of count beyond counting by the round. The volume of cement in a redi-mix cement truck has been suggested, but the trucks of that time carried only 4.5 cubic yards of cement.

In either case, further research leads me to understand there is no recorded use prior to the sixties... So I think we may be stuck on this one.

OTOH, The first known use of "You'r a son of a gun." is 1708. Unless the combatants in the civil war contentious a bit before I was led to understand, this takes it out of thier realm of origin. But... It was also recorded in a non-naval context... Which could mean the naval origin is true and it was already in common use by then, or it could mean "gun" was just euphemistic for the penis.

Half cocked... I'll have to look up when I get back

[Squidflakes]

Awwww man, another research source throw down? Look, lets just put asside this silly feud of ours, and finish that damn time machine that we started. Seriously.. we were almost done, and we would have finished too if it weren't for all that... unpleasentness. *sigh* But look, I don't own that chicken anymore, you're not dating that girls sister, and neither of us finished the sandwich.. so what do you say?

[Nithos]

I say last one to the paleozoic is a rotten hard-shelled fossil!

[Schol-R-LEA;2]

I read somewhere that in Japan, it's called Japanimation, but everywhere else, it's just anime, which means any kind of animation in Japanese.

That wouldn't make any sense. Those living in Japan call their homeland "Nippon." Literally - Land of the Rising Sun

Well, yes and no. As I understand it, the name "Nippon" is largely associated with WWII and the wartime military junta; since the occupation it's been un-PC in Japan, and is usually softened to "Nihon" nowadays.

If memory serves, 'Japan' comes from 'Shipangu' (or something like that, I'm not sure offhand), a name that Marco Polo thought was the Chinese name for the country off their eastern coast (apparently it was a miscommunication of some kind). It was still found spelled that was as late as 1720 or so, which is why it appears that way in Gulliver's Travels. It definitely isn't a word in Nihongo.

[Moo Cow]

Erm, back to the original post for a minute?

Congrats, man, I'm glad you taught Christine the joys of fellatio. I'm very happy for you both!

Reminds me of a piece in Savage Love this week -

I'm a 24-year-old male and I lost my virginity to my girlfriend last year. She is three years younger than I am, but I am the 10th man that she has fucked. This is not a problem with me as I am not a jealous guy. What bothers me is that she is unwilling to perform oral sex on me. I enjoy giving oral to her. I am really in love with her and could see myself marrying her but I need to be assured that I will get a blowjob at some point in my life. She says she doesn't like the taste of semen, which makes me just the slightest bit jealous because that means she has done this for other men but won't do it for me, a man whom she is ostensibly considering marrying.

Been Lost Oral Woman

Dump her, BLOW. Sucking cock can no longer be regarded as some sort of above-and-beyond-the-call indulgence. Blowjobs are standard. Any make or model that doesn't come with blowjobs should be immediately returned to the showroom.

Although it wouldn't make sense to dump someone just for this fact, I found the answer hilarious.


Anyway, that photo, though you say it doesn't do her justice, shows her as a beautiful, loving person! So that's pretty great!

~Sara

[Kingofthemorlocks]

Thanks Moo. She's declared it to be "fun" (I think what she really likes is how I'll squirm and beg and do anything to get her to just press her lips to my cock) and yes, she is an amazingly beautiful person.

[Moo Cow]

Fun is the right word, I think I know what she means... same with my boyfriend.

~Sara

[Kingofthemorlocks]

I'm wondering if perhaps she's done a bit o' research as well....I'm not ashamed to admit that some of my cunnilingus techniques are adapted from ones I found online, and she's intelligent and resourceful - And I never suggested running her tongue up and down the underside of my shaft, nor has she ever performed orally on another guy, so it wouldn't be something she's learned in a past relationship.

Or maybe it's just instinctual for her.

[Moo Cow]

I denno. I figured all my knowledge out from reading before actually experiencing it. And I'm a lot more experienced mentally than physically.

You've got yourself a keeper, there, Bill. I'm happy for you both.

~Sara

[Kingofthemorlocks]

Also, for five months before we sarted dating, her sex life consisted exclusively of masturbating to romance novels. No idea if that would be a factor, my guess would be that those books consist of a handsome, chiselled-ab guy pleasuring a woman while asking nothing in return.

[Squidflakes]

yea, there is a serious lack of cock-sucking in those books