[Ads-l] _on the bone_ in the UD

[Jonathan Lighter]

Another retro idiom you don't want to use is "to bone up."  That also
became filthy ca1970, IIRC.

JL

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” also has the word in the troll poem (“The Fox Went
> out on a Stormy Night”). BB
>
> > On 7 Mar 2018, at 07:22, MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM
> AMRDEC (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at MAIL.MIL> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> ----
> >>
> >>> 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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