MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)

[Scot LaFaive]

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

I highly doubt it, but I wonder if it might somehow be regional, considering
that we are at the same midwestern university.

Scot LaFaive



>From: Rowan McMullin <tryxchange at GMAIL.COM>
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>Subject: Re: MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)
>Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 21:55:07 -0500
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>Most of my fellow college students appear to use it for "mom", not
>"mother".
>
>-Rowan
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>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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> > >To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > >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.
> > >
> > >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.
> > >
> > >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.
> > >
> > >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.
> > >
> > >James Harbeck.
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