"flying fuck"

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:16 PM -0700 4/17/08, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>This is America. They've not only tried it, you can rent the video:
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>http://www.nypost.com/seven/10032006/gossip/pagesix/perils_of_sex_pagesix_.htm
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>   JL

For Ms. Lynn's sake, let's hope that the video is worth a flying fuck.

LH

>Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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>Eagles and other rapturous raptors--as in Marvell's "To His Coy
>Mistress": "And now, like amourous birds of prey . . . ."
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>I wouldn't be surprised if skydivers have tried it?
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>--Charlie
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>---- Original message ----
>>Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:36:48 -0700
>>From: Jonathan Lighter
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>>What's the basis of attributing this to Saltoalto?
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>>  Especially since various birds, eagles notably, are known to
>>engage in such behavior, not caring who's around.
>>
>>  JL
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>>"David A. Daniel" wrote:
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>>Though a little weak on etymology, Urban Dictionary has 15 entries for
>>flying fuck. My favorite is number 4 which includes the modifier "through a
>>rolling donut", as in "nobody gives a flying fuck through a rolling
>>donut...". But the origin of flying fuck in its literal sense has always
>>been attributed to Caralho Saltoalto who is known to history by the
>>pseudonym "Signor Bona Slang" who was, it may be recalled, "the daring young
>>man on the flying trapeze" who "all girls he did please".
>>DAD
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>>From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
>>Joel S. Berson
>>Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:43 AM
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>>My take on "flying fuck", without ever having asked anyone what they
>>thought "flying" meant, is from OED2 flying ppl. a. sense 4.c.,
>>"Passing, flitting; hasty, transient". Thus a flying fuck isn't
>>worth much because it's over too quickly. But perhaps I'm immersed
>>too much in the 18th century (for "flying", that is -- when G.
>>Washington coined "flying hospital", as discovered by yours truly).
>>
>>(I see the phrase has made it to the OED, draft additions March 2008,
>>s.v. flying ppl. a., but not assigned to a specific sense as far as I
>>can see, and thus no clue as to etymology. Earliest spotting 1938,
>>letter of J. O'Hara, then 1951 J. Jones _From Here to Eternity_.)
>>
>>Joel
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>>At 4/17/2008 07:22 AM, Paul wrote:
>>>paul johnson wrote:
>>>My understanding has always been that a FF was the act of launching
>>>yourself, fully extended , from the foot of the bed with the intention
>>>of reaching full penetration as you hit the bed. The only other
>>>daredevil sexual act is the standing position while in a hammock, there
>>>must be others, I'm sure.
>>>
>>>RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>>>>Which raises the really important question, "What, exactly, is a flying
>>>>fuck?"
>>>>
>>>>In a message dated 4/16/08 8:48:04 PM, dad at POKERWIZ.COM writes:
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>>>>
>>>>>Who, with any view to any realistic
>>>>>endeavor of the human mind [sic], would really give a flying fuck if
>>Wheeler
>>>>>is
>>>>>the coiner or not
>>>>>
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