[Ads-l] -hootered

Sat May 14 17:11:25 UTC 2016

What little evidence has survived suggests that the villain was indeed
originally monocular and not monorchid.  E.g.:

1895 Thomas West Smith *The Story of a Cavalry Regiment: “Scott’s 900,”
Eleventh New York* *Cavalry *(Chicago: Veteran Association of the Regiment,
1895)  23 [ref. to Army of the Potomac, 1862]: Around the camp fire one
could listen to song and jest and story; and far into the night could be
heard the sigh or laugh which followed the plaintive notes of "Annie
Laurie"’ or the rollicking words of  "One- Eyed Riley."

>From a note I sent some ten years since to the Ballad List:

John Martin, a sailor on board the whale ship _Lucy Ann_ (Wilmington, Del.)
noted the song title "One eyed [sic] Riley" in his journal for Feb. 16,
1842, as being the curtain-raiser of a shipboard "concert" off the coast of
Brazil.  It was followed immediately by "There was a Sheppards daughter
Kept sheep on yonder hill" (undoubtedly Child 110) and "I hit her right on
her stinking machine."  Stuart M. Frank lists the entire "programme" and
attempts to identify the songs (most of which seem to be tamer than the
opening numbers) in his 1986 Brown University diss. (pp. 1047-48).

Such songs tend to get bawdier, not cleaner, with the passage of time.

More background on request.

JL

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On May 14, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> >> there's a song I'm thinking of called "One-Ball Reilly"
> >
> > Politely "One-Eyed."
> >
> > JL
>
> Yes, when I looked for a YouTube performance to link to my message, all I
> could find was the bowdlerized version as performed e.g. by Tommy Makem &
> the Clancy Brothers.  Extant lyrics for "One-Ball(ed) Riley" (or "Reilly")
> can be located, however.  When we compare the new version to the original,
> we observe that Makem/Clancy incorporate more changes than merely the
> rediagnosis of the title character's condition (yet another instance of
> Freud's "displacement upwards").  Compare, for example, the chorus and a
> random verse:
>
>
> Refined version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysMvI5i5Bgg)
>
> Giddy I ae, giddy I ae, giddy I ae for the one-eyed Reilly
> Giddy I ae, (clap, clap, clap) try it on your old big drum
> ...
> I caught old Reilly by the hair,
> rammed his head in a pail of water
> Fired his pistols into the air,
> a damned sight quicker than I married his daughter
>
>
> Original version (from a field recording on my iTunes by John Patrick
> (collected by Sandy Paton);
> for a closely related version cf.
> http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/bawdy-songs/008618.HTM <
> http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/bawdy-songs/008618.HTM>
>
> Fiddle-E-I-E, Fiddle-E-I-O
> Fiddle-E-I-E for the one-balled Reilly
> Rigga-jig-jig, balls and all
> Rub-a-dub-dub, shag on!
> ...
> Well, I knocked him down onto the floor
> Shoved his head in a bucket o' water
> Rammed the pistols up his are
> A damn sight further than I'd shagged his daughter.
>
> LH
>
>
>
>
> .
>
> LH
>
> >
> > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Screech owls may be described as "loud-hootered."
> >>
> >> JL
> >>
> >> On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 1:03 AM, Benjamin Barrett <
> mail.barretts at gmail.com
> >>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> LMAO.
> >>>
> >>> I thought today that I came up with examples of body parts that don’t
> >>> work, but I found them all on Google:
> >>>
> >>> big-foreheaded
> >>> big-buttocked
> >>> big-penised
> >>> big-calved
> >>> big-shinned
> >>>
> >>> Benjamin Barrett
> >>> Formerly of Seattle, WA
> >>>
> >>>> On 13 May 2016, at 08:35, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> While researching the verb "schlong" after Trump's notorious usage, I
> >>> had
> >>>> to keep filtering out "long-schlonged," "big-schlonged,"
> >>> "mini-schlonged,"
> >>>> etc. from my searches on the simple past / past participle.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:13 AM, Benjamin Barrett <
> >>> mail.barretts at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> You mean that the grammar allows body parts to become adjectives, as
> in
> >>>>> big-footed? That’s a good point. (I have trouble with “a big-penised
> >>> man”
> >>>>> but perhaps it’s all right.) BB
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 12 May 2016, at 23:08, Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The construction is standard; it's just its use with this noun
> that's
> >>>>> novel.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Mark
> >>>>>> On May 12, 2016 7:52 PM, "Benjamin Barrett" <
> mail.barretts at gmail.com
> >>>>> <mailto:mail.barretts at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Not on Wiktionary or the Oxford Dictionary site. Googling yields
> >>>>> primarily
> >>>>>>> hits for pornographic videos.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 1. Sundays with Vlad: From Wal-Mart to Transylvania, One Man's
> Quest
> >>> to
> >>>>>>> Live in the World of the Undead
> >>>>>>> by Paul Bibeau
> >>>>>>> 2007
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Why not feature Chucky as one of Dracula's minions and have him
> >>> staked
> >>>>> by
> >>>>>>> a wisecracking, big-hootered paralegal with a little help from
> Molly
> >>>>>>> Ringwald?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 2. How To Fish An Ocean Pier
> >>>>>>> by ACTivist
> >>>>>>> 20 May 2012
> >>>>>>>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__novatownhall.com_2012_05_20_how-2Dto-2Dfish-2Dan-2Docean-2Dpier_&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=V0C15fb_uXJP1jae6h-DpCGpphyqzQXGrLVKMhCnRYE&s=4sU5EaUeM3qvz7xHehuSngQudhEW7ougtdwOGQuaTj8&e=
> <
> >>>>>>>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__novatownhall.com_2012_05_20_how-2Dto-2Dfish-2Dan-2Docean-2Dpier_&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=V0C15fb_uXJP1jae6h-DpCGpphyqzQXGrLVKMhCnRYE&s=4sU5EaUeM3qvz7xHehuSngQudhEW7ougtdwOGQuaTj8&e=
> <
> >>>>>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__novatownhall.com_2012_05_20_how-2Dto-2Dfish-2Dan-2Docean-2Dpier_&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=V0C15fb_uXJP1jae6h-DpCGpphyqzQXGrLVKMhCnRYE&s=4sU5EaUeM3qvz7xHehuSngQudhEW7ougtdwOGQuaTj8&e=
> >>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> DON’T be fooled by those big hootered women in the short skirts who
> >>>>> smile
> >>>>>>> the whole time they are lying to you.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 3. heavily hootered
> >>>>>>> by dawg32123212345
> >>>>>>> 04 August 2008
> >>>>>>>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.urbandictionary.com_define.php-3Fterm-3Dheavily-2520hootered&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=V0C15fb_uXJP1jae6h-DpCGpphyqzQXGrLVKMhCnRYE&s=Bm4d1rCBg_pSEz1roMkrYFjYdHwcqB610yAC7-r1lAI&e=
> <
> >>>>>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.urbandictionary.com_define.php-3Fterm-3Dheavily-2520hootered&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=V0C15fb_uXJP1jae6h-DpCGpphyqzQXGrLVKMhCnRYE&s=Bm4d1rCBg_pSEz1roMkrYFjYdHwcqB610yAC7-r1lAI&e=
> > <
> >>>>>>>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.urbandictionary.com_define.php-3Fterm-3Dheavily-2520hootered&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=V0C15fb_uXJP1jae6h-DpCGpphyqzQXGrLVKMhCnRYE&s=Bm4d1rCBg_pSEz1roMkrYFjYdHwcqB610yAC7-r1lAI&e=
> <
> >>>>>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.urbandictionary.com_define.php-3Fterm-3Dheavily-2520hootered&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=V0C15fb_uXJP1jae6h-DpCGpphyqzQXGrLVKMhCnRYE&s=Bm4d1rCBg_pSEz1roMkrYFjYdHwcqB610yAC7-r1lAI&e=
> >>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> [definition useless]
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 4. Why does it seem so trendy lately for large hootered women to do
> >>> the
> >>>>>>> chopdown?
> >>>>>>> by Barack Insane Muslama
> >>>>>>> Not dated
> >>>>>>>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__answers.yahoo.com_question_index-3Fqid-3D20160428021349AAAzb5R&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=V0C15fb_uXJP1jae6h-DpCGpphyqzQXGrLVKMhCnRYE&s=dzctutJ2fGHU5SRFsuwYrbaQQx7ZtbIvS9hILwpcmCU&e=
> <
> >>>>>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__answers.yahoo.com_question_index-3Fqid-3D20160428021349AAAzb5R&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=V0C15fb_uXJP1jae6h-DpCGpphyqzQXGrLVKMhCnRYE&s=dzctutJ2fGHU5SRFsuwYrbaQQx7ZtbIvS9hILwpcmCU&e=
> > <
> >>>>>>>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__answers.yahoo.com_question_index-3Fqid-3D20160428021349AAAzb5R&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=V0C15fb_uXJP1jae6h-DpCGpphyqzQXGrLVKMhCnRYE&s=dzctutJ2fGHU5SRFsuwYrbaQQx7ZtbIvS9hILwpcmCU&e=
> <
> >>>>>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__answers.yahoo.com_question_index-3Fqid-3D20160428021349AAAzb5R&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=V0C15fb_uXJP1jae6h-DpCGpphyqzQXGrLVKMhCnRYE&s=dzctutJ2fGHU5SRFsuwYrbaQQx7ZtbIvS9hILwpcmCU&e=
> >>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> As they are destroying what God blessed them with (and what so many
> >>>>> small
> >>>>>>> hootered women go under the knife to obtain) is it also just one
> more
> >>>>> way
> >>>>>>> for the atheist retards to spit in religion's eye?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
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> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
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