recockulous

[Gwyn Alcock]

The show "Loveline" began as a short late-night radio segment on a Los
Angeles rock station, KROQ. The show is now syndicated, and it had a few
years' run as a TV show on MTV, I think.

It's not surprising that somebody from U. of Southern California would be
using words coined or popularized on the show.

Gwyn Alcock
Redlands, CA
(KROQ listener since 1979)

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Subject: Re: recockulous

Michael Adams wrote:

> A lawyer friend of mine from Western Iowa, recalls using recockulous while
in College at USC; they talk funny there too.

Very well could be.

The etymology as given in the Urban Dictionary
<http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Recockulous> states,
"Word coined by 'Loveline' radio show host Adam Carolla after show
producers recieved complaints that he was using the word "Dick" on the
air. Producers suggested he use the word "Cock" instead. Carolla,
mockingly concerned about overemphasizing the "dic" syllable in
ridiculous, began saying "Recockulous" instead."

I'd imagine someone else could've come up with that substitution in
another place, another time. Carolla, though, seems to have popularized
the use.

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