"flying fuck"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Joel's hypothesis is not without merit.

  JL

"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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Back to the serious. Can anyone seriously assert that either of the
athletic feats described or alluded to below would be considered of
little esteem, not worth a flying fuck? I still hold for my "flying"
from "passing, flitting; hasty, transient".

What does the drafter of the Draft Revision of March 2008 say about
the meaning of "flying" in the phrase he or she has added to the OED?

Joel

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.


At 4/17/2008 11:11 AM, David A. Daniel wrote:
>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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>
>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
>
>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:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>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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