[Ads-l] "Sofa king" euphemism

[Laurence Horn]

Any relation to Nosmo King?

On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 11:58 AM Nancy Friedman <wordworking at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I wrote a post about the history of "sofa king" for the Strong Language
> blog.
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> https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/its-sofa-king-famous/
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> On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 8:55 AM Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > Seen on twitter as a euphemism for the thing "so effing" is also a
> > euphemism for.
> >
> > "Sofa king"
> >
> > As in, "I laughed, it's sofa king hilarious."
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