MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)

[Rowan McMullin]

Most of my fellow college students appear to use it for "mom", not "mother".

-Rowan

On 5/1/07, Scot LaFaive <spiderrmonkey at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I appear to be the only one who considers it "mom" not "mother."
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> >From: James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>
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> >Subject: Re: MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)
> >Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 22:29:39 -0400
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> >OK, I've polled a bunch of people I know (they're all on a private
> >email list for off-colour humour), and it seems I've identified the
> >prime vector for MILF: the movie _American Pie_ got mentioned as the
> >source by the majority of respondents. So now the thing to do would
> >be to find out what the writers had in mind and where they got it
> >from.
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> >I wasn't able to phrase a question in such a way as to elicit a
> >theory of a phrase without suggesting the phrase. So now I'll ask
> >them all directly.
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> >Incidentally, more of them said it stood for "mother" than for "mom".
> >One, an Australian, said it stood for "mummy" -- and he mentioned
> >_American Pie_ as the source.
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> >Alas, I haven't seen _American Pie_, great cultural moment though it
> >is. And I doubt my wife will want it to be the next DVD we rent.
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> >James Harbeck.
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