The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Having said that, I think the writer was making a double-entendre. You think?
In 1951?
Sure. Nowadays there are no double-entendres - if they want to say something, they just say it. If you watch an old movie, you'd be surprised once in a while. Sometimes they're subtle, sometimes they're still subtle, but less so.
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@jinpa That's not what I meant. How could "boner" be a double entendre in 1951?
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@jinpa Y'ever give a good listen to the song "Personality"? It's not new. It's old. And they pause significantly right before the word "Personality" so you know for damn sure it ain't what they mean. It's on the Fallout 4 soundtrack, no I don't actually listen to really old music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMTPsumjfTA
Give you one guess what they seem to mean, it also starts with P and ends with Y. Yes, double-entendres have been around a long time.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa That's not what I meant. How could "boner" be a double entendre in 1951?
I think it was probably used occasionally in the modern sense even back then. I can say that I heard it used at summer camp as early as 1970, and I suspect it was not a new term.
Indeed, I suspect that the clean sense came after (was based on) the current sense.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa Y'ever give a good listen to the song "Personality"? It's not new. It's old. And they pause significantly right before the word "Personality" so you know for damn sure it ain't what they mean. It's on the Fallout 4 soundtrack, no I don't actually listen to really old music.
Give you one guess what they seem to mean, it also starts with P and ends with Y. Yes, double-entendres have been around a long time.
I agree that it's a double-entendre, but I don't think it's the word you're thinking of. More like "bust".
And one that they'd never get away with nowadays:
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa That's not what I meant. How could "boner" be a double entendre in 1951?
I think it was probably used occasionally in the modern sense even back then. I can say that I heard it used at summer camp as early as 1970, and I suspect it was not a new term.
Indeed, I suspect that the clean sense came after (was based on) the current sense.
Well, from what I could gather, the dictionaries kinda sorta maybe not really agree with your first sentence, but the last part is definitely wrong - blunder was much earlier, the earliest citation I could find (not in link) was 1898. It comes from the word "bonehead".
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa That's not what I meant. How could "boner" be a double entendre in 1951?
I think it was probably used occasionally in the modern sense even back then. I can say that I heard it used at summer camp as early as 1970, and I suspect it was not a new term.
Indeed, I suspect that the clean sense came after (was based on) the current sense.
Well, from what I could gather, the dictionaries kinda sorta maybe not really agree with your first sentence, but the last part is definitely wrong - blunder was much earlier, the earliest citation I could find (not in link) was 1898. It comes from the word "bonehead".
You might find this blog interesting. He's pretty effective at dispelling excessive confidence in an etymology from a single source.
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@jinpa I've compared different sources. Each has given a different date, but all have put the baseball slang in early 1900s.
Etymology is extremely hard subject to research. I'm often fine with very dubious information, because the alternative is usually no information at all.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Give you one guess what they seem to mean, it also starts with P and ends with Y. Yes, double-entendres have been around a long time.
Pantry? Stomach being the road to a man's heart and all that.
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Starbucks cup spotted in Game of Thrones episode
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Each has given a different date, but all have put the baseball slang in early 1900s.
Probably the most famous:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle's_Boner
And today you can get a triple entendre out of that with an off by one German.
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@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Starbucks cup spotted in Game of Thrones episode
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Nice trolling, would click again
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@TimeBandit that's what it is on FB, too. He posted a screen shot of the ad.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle's_Boner
And today you can get a triple entendre out of that with an off by one German.
A German might appreciate a triple entendre better than a triple entente...
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That must have been constructed more than a few years ago. It's too low for the "smart" phone era.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That must have been constructed more than a few years ago. It's too low for the "smart" phone era.
Or it was sponsored by the phone shop just around the corner.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Sounds like fun.
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@DoctorJones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Yeah, I don't get it. That seems like a perfectly reasonable question. I assume it's asking to see whether you'd qualify for an educational license.
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa It wasn't just baseball; that was the common meaning until "erection" overtook it.
Ironically, we're one of the few species where a bone isn't involved.
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@DoctorJones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Funnier when there's no third possibility, like, "Are you dead or alive" "Yes/No"
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@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DoctorJones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Funnier when there's no third possibility, like, "Are you dead or alive" "Yes/No"
First name: John
Last name: Smith
Born: yes
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DoctorJones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Funnier when there's no third possibility, like, "Are you dead or alive" "Yes/No"
First name: John
Last name: Smith
Born: yesPoor fetus John Smith.
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Spaghetti Carbanana
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@Rhywden You don't want to know what the "carbonera" version looks like
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(caption not mine)
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@hungrier Every time I see that I think “saftety”
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I wouldn't be too quick to judge. I do think that could restore sight to a blind man.
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I wouldn't be too quick to judge. I do think that could restore sight to a blind man.
He might not be fully blind either, and could have severe tunnel vision instead; that'd still qualify him as legally blind and could easily make getting about without a white stick very difficult.
Or maybe he's just keeping his sight for the important things in life.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Plot twist: this is actually a photo of @boomzilla taken earlier today.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Plot twist: this is actually a photo of @boomzilla taken earlier today.
Fake News! His hands aren't that misaligned!
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Photoshop is magic, yo!
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