when "intercourse" got funny

Wed Sep 27 19:29:50 UTC 2006

On Sep 27, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Ron Butters wrote:

> It is probably a little off topic, but Google turns up ample
> examples of
> INTERCOURSE used as a verb-- usually jocularly. I'd guess that this
> sense of the
> word as a joke is quite recent.

google on "intercourse the penguin" to see the probable source of its
current popularity.

arnold

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