bunga-bunga

[Jonathan Lighter]

Cf. "humungous" vs. "humongous."  God knows what that originally meant.

JL

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> At 2:09 PM -0500 2/26/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >Does this mean what I think it means?
> >
> >JL
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> OK, so "bonga bonga" we all know is just group
> anal sex.  Big deal. So a large majority of
> Italians didn't know that before yesterday; I'm
> sure this was old hat to Americans, as
> well-informed as we are.  But I thought we were
> talking about "bunga-bunga".  That really *is* a
> mystery.  I'm guessing it refers to a group of
> people sitting around the fireplace in fine linen
> and silk drinking Barolo and discussing the
> relative merits of the Florentine and Sienese
> masters of the quattrocento.
>
> LH
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> >2011/2/26 Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>
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> >>  On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Jonathan Lighter
> >>  <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>  >
> >>  > bunga-bunga
> >>
> >>  Perhaps the fact of the matter:
> >>
> >>  Chez Berlusconi, des soirees qui finissent en _« bunga-bunga »_
> >>  L'avocat de Lele Mora tente, en vain, d'assister a l'interrogatoire de
> >>  Ruby. Devant les commissaires, Ruby raconte son histoire : les soirees
> >>  dans la residence de Berlusconi a Arcore, en presence du President du
> >>  conseil ; le role d'entremetteur joue par Emilio Fede - repondant a la
> >>  presse, ce dernier a desavoue toute responsabilite dans l'affaire, et
> >>  en meme temps a confirme d'avoir connu la jeune fille, chez
> >>  Berlusconi.
> >>
> >>  Ruby decrit le deroulement des festins, auxquelles participent
> >>  plusieurs filles : un diner suivi d'une _« bunga-bunga »_.
> >>
> >>  Dans un entretien recent, et citant une blague de Berlusconi, Noemi
> >>  Letitia avait utilisé la meme etrange expression. Personne, alors,
> >>  n'avait donne de l'importance a ce detail qu'aujourd'hui apparait
> >>  precieux.
> >>
> >>  C'est que, jusqu'a hier, _« bonga bonga »_ etait un concept meconnu de
> >>  la grande majorite des Italiens. Aujourd'hui, on decouvre que, dans le
> >>  milieu restreint des amis du Premier ministre, cela veut dire _« sexe
> >>  anal de groupe »_.
> >>
> >>  http://goo.gl/ZmciG
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> >>  --
> >>  -Wilson
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