[Ads-l] Antedating of _fuck_

[Jonathan Lighter]

If it meant "dimwit," he must have been pretty dim to get that far
and...you know.

Maybe he was just recommending it as birth control.


JL

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> > On Sep 14, 2015, at 1:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> =
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> > Interesting that the dude's name is "Roger."
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> Yes, a bit of an oxymoron.  Alternative onomastic speculations: Maybe =
> poor Roger was just nearsighted. Or he had just been misinformed about =
> the nature of the hymen.  Either way, it's not surprising his line has =
> died out; there are vanishingly few individuals of his surname to be =
> found in even the larger phone books.
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