MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)

[Wilson Gray]

I agree with James, I[f]A[nyone]C[ares].

-Wilson

On 4/27/07, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> >For me, I think I've heard MILF spoken out almost exclusively as "mom" not
> >"mother."
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> I find this interesting. It's not my experience -- rather the
> opposite. And I had always assumed that it was a phrase modelled on
> the venerable "motherfucker."
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> A Google poll gets me 32,500 for full-phrase "mother i'd like to
> fuck" and 11,700 for "mom i'd like to fuck"; {"mom i'd like to" MILF}
> gets 13,800, and {"mother i'd like to" MILF} gets 32,700, meaning
> that there are more instances where the vulgarity is left out of the
> explanation that use "mom" than that use "mother", but otherwise
> "mother" is roughly triple "mom".
>
> James Harbeck.
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