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justfarley Thanks all for your thoughtful contributions. Over two years since the last query: as in no fucking additions to the commentary at all? This can't exhaust the veritable core of planetary evolution. Doesn't anyone remember the dinner time utterance of our horoine at a return to mother's table after a fairly short foray into the crusty world where she unwittingly remarks, " Please mother, pass the fucking risotto." Tedious indeed.

Puzzled by, "Spam?" below? Me too. Even more so about the reference to "Feeling fancy?" just above. Can't comprehend anything from the entire paragraph. But, I did just discover that wordie.org = wordnik.com

This being my first visit here I'll admit the commentary seems singularly underwhelming, especially compared to the site's more imaginative exposition. Lately I've been playing at words-brains-means stuff like Personal Brain 7, http://www.visualthesaurus.com/app/view, and... BUT having just discovered "http://www.w3.org/" here, I'm fucking blown right the fuck out of my fucking mind. Go fuckin figure. Jun 5, 2012

robdacosta why f-word??? May 24, 2010

oroboros The f-word reviewed. Jan 11, 2010

Prolagus Could the etymology be related to Latin facio? (More on prong) Oct 6, 2009

chained_bear Going back to the original comment on this page, here is an interesting article on syntax, etc. of sexual terminology, by Jesse Sheidlower. I reiterate the article's own caveat: "WARNING: This piece contains vulgar language—lots and lots of it—that may be inappropriate for children or the faint of heart." Oct 6, 2009

BrainyBabe You don't have to understand French to get the joke of this bilingual (subtitled) video on the perils of cross-cultural non-communication, but it helps to know that the word for the animal "seal" is ''phoque'', pronounced "fuck". The three-minute clip is funny, not vulgar, with a political point. (There's also an 8-minute version with a lot more "fucks" and ''phoques''.) It trades on a special type of false friends, words that are homophones between languages. Dec 23, 2008

kewpid Donnie: You're such a fuck-ass.
Elizabeth:(laughing) What? Did you just call me a fuck-ass? You can just go suck a fuck!
Donnie: Please tell me Elizabeth, how exactly does one suck a fuck?
Elizabeth: You want me to tell you?
Rose Darko: We will not have THIS at the dinner table.
Donnie: I'm all ears.
(Pause)
Samantha: What's a fuck-ass? Dec 19, 2008

reesetee Ha! Oct 28, 2008

bilby Bewdy.

It's nigh impossible to imagine this kind of episode without a symphony of f-bombs.
Oct 25, 2008

frindley Thanks, I've fixed it now. Careless space after "href"… Oct 25, 2008

bilby Link is bodgy, frin. A bit of wordie.org/words seems to have crept in. Oct 24, 2008

frindley I am reminded of the "Songs of Praise" episode of The Vicar of Dibley. Alice has the Bible reading and is becoming increasingly confused by the descending or "long s" common in ye olde worlde printing.

ALICE: Ye are the falt of the earth, and fainted. Sainted. Thou shalt feel…seal your endeavours until ye fit on his right hand. Therefore fight the good fight for his…fake, and he shall be thy f…
VICAR: Succour. "And he shall be thy succour," thank you Alice!

You really have to watch it, the scene starts around 6:35 on this clip.

(Incidentally, Alice's reading has nothing with Song of Solomon 6:2 to do. It's more like a portmanteau Bible verse.) Oct 17, 2008

bilby You're using WordiePRO, aren't you? Oct 17, 2008

Prolagus Reading your comment, bilby, for some reasons I had the feeling your eyebrows are burnt.

(don't ask me why, there is no reason for that) Oct 17, 2008

chained_bear Fuck.

(I just like to say it.) Oct 17, 2008

bilby 1. I know things. The Oracle's tea leaves are in my compost, dig?
2. No, not a slang term. But hardly everyday parlance either.
3. (fanciful) I sense The Pattern. Or maybe it's just late on Friday. You know, if dog years are like 7 human years, then 1 human day is like a dog week. About 6 o'clock on any day for any dog is like Friday. He's not glad you're home, numb nuts, he's just jiving for the weekend. So 6 o'clock on Friday is, wow, ecstasy on a mutton bone. But I'm not a dog. And besides, it's midnight here. Whahaha-burp. Oct 17, 2008

Prolagus http://wordie.org/people/recent/smrtrthnu Oct 17, 2008

smrtrthnu And how do you know that was the first word I added? Oct 17, 2008

smrtrthnu clitoridectomy isn't a slang term Oct 17, 2008

chained_bear 1. Sex is fun.
2. Sex is good.
3. Sex is what most people are "obsessed" with anyway so why not words about it?
4. "Fuck" is far more versatile than just sex.
5. "Fuck" is a great word.
6. See bilby's statement. Oct 17, 2008

bilby The first word you added was clitoridectomy so perhaps you can answer that yourself. Oct 17, 2008

smrtrthnu why are people obsessed with slang terms and slang terms referring to sexual activity and the like?
Oct 17, 2008

reesetee Look, my probation officer's all over me as it is. You trying to get me in trouble?

*inhales* Oct 1, 2008

chained_bear Come onnnn... First one's free. Oct 1, 2008

reesetee *inhales fragrance of small Enterprise model*

No. No, I can't. Oct 1, 2008

chained_bear Oh, sorry about that. Well, there you have me: Voyager *does* blow dead rats. 42 of them, to be precise. And to get back on topic here: Fuck Voyager!

Reesetee... come on... comment on Star Trek. You know you want to! It'll make you feel good! All your friends are doing it! *waves a small Enterprise model under reesetee's nose* Oct 1, 2008

reesetee Jennarenn, you'd have to go check out the 42 page to see why we're bringing up Dara Torres. ;-)

I'm not commenting on Star Trek. Not...commenting.... Oct 1, 2008

skipvia No, no, c_b. We went over Deanna before. B'Elanna Torres was on Voyager, which, as yarb correctly posits, blows dead rats. Oct 1, 2008

chained_bear Are you thinking of Deanna Troi? Meh. I never understood the appeal. Oct 1, 2008

yarb I guess so. But I can't stand Voyager, and almost never watch it. The only good character is the holographic doc. The rest make me want to slit my teeth. Oct 1, 2008

skipvia You're thinking of B'Elanna, there, yarb.

Me too, now. Oct 1, 2008

yarb For some reason I keep thinking Dara Torres is a Star Trek character. Oct 1, 2008

jennarenn Dara Torres is a U.S. olympic swimmer who won silver in Bejing at the age of 41. I forget if it was the 50 or the 100 free, but it was a *very* close race for the gold.

edit: Surprisingly, c_b and I agree on the pronunciation of Norfolk. Oct 1, 2008

bilby Recta? Damn-near killed her. Who's Dara Torres? Oct 1, 2008

skipvia I don't know why I'm reminded of this (yes I do, too) but I suspect you'd appreciate it. On leaving a comment on a blog the other day I was asked to type in an anti-spam word. The word was "lovehaft." I kid you not. Oct 1, 2008

chained_bear Skipvia: You're daaamn right.

Actually, my spawn came home from school one day a few years ago, and told us about a project the kids did on presidents. Spawn chose W. H. Taft, and as a bonus wrote some alternate lyrics to "Shaft." Now, I am unable to look at any list of U.S. presidents without getting to Taft and singing "Taft! He's one baaaaaad motherf-- Shut yo' mouth!"

Stick that in your Dara Torres and smoke it. Er... I mean... metaphorically. Sep 30, 2008

reesetee Really? I had no idea. Sep 30, 2008

skipvia It's funny that you should mention Dara Torres and 42 in the same conversation, because that's how old she'll be next year.

Shaft. *hee hee* Sep 30, 2008

reesetee Eesh. I'm going back to the 42 page. It's so much more pleasant.

*snort* Sep 30, 2008

chained_bear Especially right after that turn! (Wait...) Before that turn!

Skipvia, we locals know that, in the Grand List of Great American Cities, poor No-fuck Vagina always gets the shaft.

(p.s. I posted that comment before, then deleted it from embarrassment, and then decided if skipvia can make grand fart jokes that live on in legend, and bilby can be obsessed with bear rectums ... recta? ... then modesty be damned!) Sep 30, 2008

plethora It would be tricky to build up the momentum necessary to jump Dara Torres the 13.75ft into this conversation. Sep 30, 2008

reesetee Me? I'm not sneaking anything into any conversation. Nuh-uh. Not me. Sep 30, 2008

skipvia In high school, we referred to Norfolk, Virginia as "No-fuck Vagina." As often as we could. We thought it was very funny. Then. Sep 30, 2008

chained_bear Are you trying to sneak Dara Torres into this conversation, reesetee? As AbraxasZugzwang would quote, were he here, "Fuck me!" Sep 30, 2008

reesetee Who's what? Sep 30, 2008

bilby Should I lie about my age on fuck? *ponders* Sep 30, 2008

chained_bear Who's 42? Sep 30, 2008

reesetee 42. Sep 30, 2008

chained_bear This is how the second syllable of "Norfolk" is pronounced. Sep 30, 2008

gangerh Yes, telofy, excellent. I missed it first time around. Sep 29, 2008

yarb I think I love peteyk. Sep 28, 2008

gangerh more about peteyk: i like simple words
if you don't then go screw off

! Sep 28, 2008

gangerh lumber, 'gus. Sep 28, 2008

chained_bear I certainly meant to list fuck, not duck (which I also like) or suck (which I don't, so much).

I'm intrigued. Sep 28, 2008

Prolagus fuck
word
is
a
smack
wordthatisactuallyasentencewithnospaces
fish

What's the 8th? Sep 28, 2008

bilby I reckon them's were the days before open and shared lists, 'nger'. So if he/she listed 8 and only has 4 on a single list, prolly ghosties.
Edit: and words on his/her profile! Sep 28, 2008

gangerh peteyk also added fish and awordthatisactuallyasentencewithnospaces to their list of 4 words. An eclectic mix? Made a comment on TooHotty's profile ('nice words') and added 4 words, presumably to other lists. Then 'doesn't appear to have done anything recently'.
It would be interesting to know those other 4 words? Sep 28, 2008

gangerh And a high proportion of spam is really about ducks? Sep 28, 2008

gangerh Can we assume that fuck should not be so highly rated because a lot of Wordies meant to list duck or suck? Sep 28, 2008

mollusque Peteyk, the first to list fuck, was also the first to list word. Sep 28, 2008

chained_bear Yes, it certainly does. So does fugue. Well, for me anyway.

I wonder if someone has a list for these... Sep 28, 2008

mollusque Ruckus also has its perils. Sep 28, 2008

chained_bear Yes, if you try to type "duck" you're liable to miss one direction and type "fuck" or the other and type "suck." Sep 28, 2008

Telofy Right, "f" and "d" are so ducking close on qwerty/z keyboards; that really ducks! Sep 28, 2008

Prolagus We're laughing, in this room. Sep 28, 2008

gangerh Misspelling of duck. Sep 28, 2008

Prolagus ...and now it's again in the top 100. Sep 27, 2008

chained_bear Still one of the best fucking words around, is fuck. I once saw a t-shirt that said "Fuck you, you fucking fuck." Hard to find any other words quite as versatile. Also, one of my favorite language-arts books is "English as a Second F*cking Language."

Cabbagee, I'm afraid it was never true that one had to ask permission of some third party, let alone one's monarch, to have intercourse. (Thank fucking heaven.) Sep 27, 2008

bilby Backronym. Sep 27, 2008

Prolagus It's an urban legend, Cabbagee! Sep 27, 2008

cabbageeenfrancais I thought the word was from when you had to get permission to have intercourse (because you were only supposed to if you wanted children) and you had to hang a sign on your door while you were saying Fornication Under Consent of the King.
I don't know if that's correct though, I read it on a radom facts website XD Sep 27, 2008

yarb Bah. It's a far better word than diaphanous if you ask me. Sep 27, 2008

Prolagus Out of the top 100. Sep 27, 2008

lampbane Perhaps the video would be better served by being over at 99? Sep 22, 2008

artbizness I am the 99th person to list the word, the song is called "99 problems". Sep 19, 2008

bilby I can't see the point of inserting the video here, artb. Sep 19, 2008

chained_bear I would list it again if I could. :) Sep 19, 2008

artbizness Sep 19, 2008

gangerh Now 99 Wordies list it. Who's going to list the fuck of the century. (Can I say that?). Sep 18, 2008

lampbane Sep 6, 2008

dontcry Regarding Lampbane, I've almost got it -- is the noun possessive? May 19, 2008

seanahan Is it weird, Reesetee, that I immediately given only "the" and 3 f-words I guessed exactly the precise form the soldier used? May 19, 2008

reesetee Good article, Lampbane. My favorite paragraph:

"Rarely do any of these people display a glimmer of the creativity shown by a fellow soldier in my Army days. The jeep he was driving broke down. Looking under the hood, he needed only four words to pronounce the vehicle beyond repair. The first was 'the,' followed by the Simmons-Cheney-Spitzer word in its adjectival, noun and verb forms--in that order. It bordered on poetry." May 16, 2008

lampbane Bad Words, Overused, Can Lose Their Sting (New York Times, 05/16/08):

The most surprising thing about Sue Simmons’s unbleeped blooper the other night is that anyone in this city even noticed.

You may have read about her unfortunate slip. Ms. Simmons, a news anchor on WNBC-TV, tried to get the attention of her longtime partner, Chuck Scarborough, by asking him, “What are you doing?�?

Only she did not realize that they were live on the air. And she didn’t quite say “What are you doing?�? She inserted two words between “what�? and “are.�? One of those words was “the.�? Sorry to be coy about the other one, but it is not allowed to be printed here. Rules are rules. If you can’t figure out what it is, you have not been in New York very long — like less than four minutes.

Despite a certain amount of twitter over this incident, it seems that both the republic and Ms. Simmons will survive. “She’ll continue to be on the air,�? said a WNBC spokeswoman, Susan Kiel.

The reality is that this vulgar word has been tossed about with such abandon in public for so many years that New Yorkers tend to tune it out. Its endless, and mindless, repetition left them numb long ago. By now, the word is no longer shocking, just tedious. May 16, 2008

reesetee You're right. That is good. Thanks for the link! Oct 12, 2007

chained_bear I just read a fantastic article in The New Republic that has a lot to do with this word. Here, read it, it's good. Oct 12, 2007

seanahan I've seen some crazy etymologies, but this one surpasses them all, sheer awesomeness. Sep 18, 2007

oroboros Word History: The obscenity fuck is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, "Flen flyys," from the first words of its opening line, "Flen, flyys, and freris," that is, "fleas, flies, and friars." The line that contains fuck reads "Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk." The Latin words "Non sunt in coeli, quia," mean "they (the friars) are not in heaven, since." The code "gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk" is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields "fvccant (a fake Latin form) vvivys of heli." The whole thus reads in translation: "They are not in heaven because they fuck wives of Ely (a town near Cambridge)."

Aside: FUCK did not start out life as the acronym: For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Sep 14, 2007

muamor ..when you need stronger words to comfort you on the waves of life. I believe strong words can not harm you - or anyone else - if your heart is pure and you understand, that the f-word is only a tool to get you through a heck of a moment. To me swear words and the like are some sort of an instant verbal gratification. I use the f-word fluently. In Finland it's a v-word. Sounds much worse in Finnish. Trust me, I know. Jun 24, 2007

tankexmortis Is there anything it CAN'T mean? Dec 2, 2006

john Celebrity lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower's comprehensive book "The F-word" is worth a read. Good book, but by the thousandth variation, the f-bomb loses some of it's power. Dec 2, 2006