A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve

Wed May 1 09:19:23 UTC 2013

I've always heard the term as badonkadonk, and it has some pretty negative (sometimes racist and/or sexist) connotations. It generally refers to a particular kind of butt, rotund or juicy or just very big. Here's an Urban Dictionary link for badonkadonk:
(link is definitely NOT Suitable For Work (NSFW))
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=badonkadonk

-Kim
(strangest email I've sent to a list serve in as long as I can remember, my apologies, people)

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> From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve
> Date: 30 April 2013 08:37:50 GMT+01:00
> 
> 
> "A 'near-miss' is NOT a shortened form of 'nearly missed' and, therefore,
> it is not something that really means a 'hit'!"
> 
> Would you believe that a guy referring to himself as a "layman" defends the
> re-analysis by bitching that "widely-known vernacular should be more easily
> interpreted"?!
> 
> How does he account for the fact that the "vernacular" has become
> "widely-known," if it's not "easily interpreted"?
> 
> This is almost as disheartening as some of your examples, Jon.
> 
> And there the guy in the pswaydo-anti-fattening-food TV ad who asks for a
> "badunkadunk butt," apparently unaware that a badunkadunk *Is* a butt. Ne
> might as well ask foe a "butt badunkadunk."
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
> "
> 
> 
> 
> From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve
> Date: 30 April 2013 13:25:20 GMT+01:00
> 
> 
> Naturally it's worse than you think.
> 
> Your pal is saying that there are so many people who think that a "near
> miss" *is* a hit that he feels compelled to rail against it.
> 
> Think about it.
> 
> The horror, I mean.
> 
> PS: I analyze "badunkadunk butt" to mean a "butt butt." You know, as
> distinguished from a "gun butt." "pork butt," "archery butt," etc.  Wise
> writers are careful to specify by doubling just which sense of a
> potentially ambiguous noun they mean to convey.
> 
> JL
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: "Mullins, Bill CIV (US)" <william.d.mullins18.civ at MAIL.MIL>
> Subject: Re: A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)
> Date: 30 April 2013 17:02:06 GMT+01:00
> 
> 
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
> 
> 
>> 
>> PS: I analyze "badunkadunk butt" to mean a "butt butt." You know, as
>> distinguished from a "gun butt." "pork butt," "archery butt," etc.
>> Wise writers are careful to specify by doubling just which sense of a
>> potentially ambiguous noun they mean to convey.
>> 
>> JL
>> 
> 
> So it means "big-ass butt"?
> 
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
> 
> 
> 
> From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)
> Date: 30 April 2013 17:12:01 GMT+01:00
> 
> 
> More like  "ass butt" than "big-ass butt." But "butt butt" is less
> confusing for today's reader/listener.
> 
> Cf.:
> 
> 1. "If you screw up, it'll be your figurative butt!"
> 
> 2. "Stop sitting on your butt butt!"
> 
> JL
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
> william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
> 
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>> Poster:       "Mullins, Bill CIV (US)" <william.d.mullins18.civ at MAIL.MIL>
>> Subject:      Re: A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)
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>> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
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>> 
>>> 
>>> PS: I analyze "badunkadunk butt" to mean a "butt butt." You know, as
>>> distinguished from a "gun butt." "pork butt," "archery butt," etc.
>>> Wise writers are careful to specify by doubling just which sense of a
>>> potentially ambiguous noun they mean to convey.
>>> 
>>> JL
>>> 
>> 
>> So it means "big-ass butt"?
>> 
>> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>> Caveats: NONE
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> 
> 
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
> 
> 
> 
> From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject: Re: A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)
> Date: 30 April 2013 18:22:02 GMT+01:00
> 
> 
> On Apr 30, 2013, at 12:12 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> 
>> More like  "ass butt" than "big-ass butt." But "butt butt" is less
>> confusing for today's reader/listener.
>> 
>> Cf.:
>> 
>> 1. "If you screw up, it'll be your figurative butt!"
>> 
>> 2. "Stop sitting on your butt butt!"
>> 
>> JL
> 
> Or "Get your figurative butt in gear" vs. "Get your butt butt looked at by the proctologist".
> 
> LH
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
>> william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
>> 
>>> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
>>> -----------------------
>>> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>> Poster:       "Mullins, Bill CIV (US)" <william.d.mullins18.civ at MAIL.MIL>
>>> Subject:      Re: A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)
>>> 
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>>> Caveats: NONE
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> PS: I analyze "badunkadunk butt" to mean a "butt butt." You know, as
>>>> distinguished from a "gun butt." "pork butt," "archery butt," etc.
>>>> Wise writers are careful to specify by doubling just which sense of a
>>>> potentially ambiguous noun they mean to convey.
>>>> 
>>>> JL
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> So it means "big-ass butt"?
>>> 
>>> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>>> Caveats: NONE
>>> 
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> --
>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>> 
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> 
> 
> From: Benjamin Torbert <btorbert at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)
> Date: 30 April 2013 18:26:29 GMT+01:00
> 
> 
> http://xkcd.com/37/
> 
> 
> 
> From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject: Re: A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)
> Date: 30 April 2013 18:50:56 GMT+01:00
> 
> 
> On Apr 30, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Benjamin Torbert wrote:
> 
>> http://xkcd.com/37/
>> 
>> 
> 
> As in "That's a sweet ass to risk" > "That's a sweet *"?
> 
> LH

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