[Ads-l] _on the bone_ in the UD

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

Presumably these were all written with the "clean" meaning in mind, but you never know . . . .

http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/136/boner_6.gif
http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/136/boner_2.gif
https://bmj2k.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/boner-10.jpg
http://www.superdickery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/batman01.jpg
http://www.superdickery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/batman03.jpg
http://www.therobotspajamas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/super-boners-by-superman.jpg




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> 
> > Go figure.
> 
> Indeed. And, once you become accustomed to the "dirty" interpretation, you find yourself wondering how the heck there was ever a
> "clean" reading.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:24 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Oddly, that was roughly my experience too.
> >
> > In the '80s or '90s, when I innocently used the phrase "pulled a boner"
> > before a class of freshmen, you can imagine the reaction. The point
> > is, none of them had ever heard the innocent interpretation.
> >
> > Go figure.
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > "Having an erect penis; having a boner; having a hard on; being on hard"
> > > November 23, 2006
> > >
> > > From time to time, I look to see whether some random slang that I
> > > know
> > has
> > > been documented somewhere or other. In this case, I have found the
> > _exact_
> > > definition in, of all places, the Urban Dictionary. And note that
> > > "hard
> > on"
> > > is spelled out as two words and that the phrase, "on hard," also occurs.
> > > It's "like a letter from home," to coin a phrase.
> > >
> > > I became familiar with "on the bone" ca. 1947, "hard on" and "on hard"
> > ca.
> > > 1943, though the latter two phrases probably can be dated to the
> > Creation.
> > > Oddly, I never heard "boner" - except in the meaning, "egregious
> > > error" - till 1969.
> > > --
> > > -Wilson
> > > -----


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