[Ads-l] _on the bone_ in the UD

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Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” also has the word in the troll poem (“The Fox Went out on a Stormy Night”). BB

> On 7 Mar 2018, at 07:22, MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at MAIL.MIL> wrote:
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> Presumably these were all written with the "clean" meaning in mind, but you never know . . . .
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> http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/136/boner_6.gif
> http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/136/boner_2.gif
> https://bmj2k.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/boner-10.jpg
> http://www.superdickery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/batman01.jpg
> http://www.superdickery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/batman03.jpg
> http://www.therobotspajamas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/super-boners-by-superman.jpg
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>>> Go figure.
>> 
>> Indeed. And, once you become accustomed to the "dirty" interpretation, you find yourself wondering how the heck there was ever a
>> "clean" reading.
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:24 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Oddly, that was roughly my experience too.
>>> 
>>> In the '80s or '90s, when I innocently used the phrase "pulled a boner"
>>> before a class of freshmen, you can imagine the reaction. The point
>>> is, none of them had ever heard the innocent interpretation.
>>> 
>>> Go figure.
>>> 
>>> JL
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> "Having an erect penis; having a boner; having a hard on; being on hard"
>>>> November 23, 2006
>>>> 
>>>> From time to time, I look to see whether some random slang that I
>>>> know
>>> has
>>>> been documented somewhere or other. In this case, I have found the
>>> _exact_
>>>> definition in, of all places, the Urban Dictionary. And note that
>>>> "hard
>>> on"
>>>> is spelled out as two words and that the phrase, "on hard," also occurs.
>>>> It's "like a letter from home," to coin a phrase.
>>>> 
>>>> I became familiar with "on the bone" ca. 1947, "hard on" and "on hard"
>>> ca.
>>>> 1943, though the latter two phrases probably can be dated to the
>>> Creation.
>>>> Oddly, I never heard "boner" - except in the meaning, "egregious
>>>> error" - till 1969.
>>>> --
>>>> -Wilson
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