I recently heard this explanation for the origin of the the word "fuck":
"In ancient England, people couldn't have sex without the King's consent (except if the person was a member of the royal family). When people wanted to have a child, they had to ask for permission from the King, who gave them a plaque to be hung outside over the door while they were having "love encounters". On the plaque was written: " Fornication Under Consent of the King" (F.U.C.K.)."
Has anyone here heard of this before. Is it true?
Posted by Lost (Member # 417) on :
I heard it was the Puritans in the early American times hanging a plaque around peoples heads in the stocks..... For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Same place Sammy Hager or Van Halen got the name of that album......
Posted by Michael_T (Member # 144) on :
And this is anther useless fact.
Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :
If anyone remembers the wav file that went around, it comes from the German word "to strike." Flichen or something like that. that Fornication under consent of King is just silly.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
It's not a useless fact. Useless, yes. Fact, no. For one thing, if people were married, they couldn't possibly fornicate w/ each other. Fornication, by definition, is sex between people who aren't married to each other.
Read what Snopes have to say about it.
Posted by Lost (Member # 417) on :
It could be just a once common verb..... like shit, both can be conjugated....
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
Another useless fact: the first movie to use this word was M*A*S*H* , in 1970.
Posted by Tora Ziyal (Member # 53) on :
I think one of the origins of fuck, "fuccant", was encoded in the Canterbury Tales. I remember coming across that fact last year, but not sure if that's where I got it.
Oh, when I said "encoded" I meant the word looks like gibberish until you deciphered it. Or read the footnote.
[ February 04, 2002, 15:12: Message edited by: Tora Ziyal ]
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
quote:bang, batter, beef, bumble, blow off the loose corns, bounce the brillo, dance the buttock jig, do a dive in the dark, flimp, flurgle, foin, foraminate, futz, get one's leather stretched, get one's nuts cracked, get one's oil changed, go bird's nesting, go bush-ranging, go like a rat up a rhododendron, go star-gazing on one's back, have a bun in the oven, have a game in the cock-loft, have a leap up the ladder, have hot pudding for supper, hide the ferret, hide the salami, hide the sausage, hive it, jazz it, knock it off, lay some pipe, light the lamp, lose the lamp and pocket the stake, make her grunt, mix one's peanut butter, palliardize, pestle, pheeze, pizzle, play cars and garages, plow, plug, plook, ram, rasp, ride below the crupper, shoot between wind and water, strop one's beak, varnish one's cane, wet one's wick, wind the clock, and work the hairy oracle
Well, fuck me. 8)
Posted by Lost (Member # 417) on :
The expression fuck me running always makes my sister-in-law laugh her ass off..... which takes a fuck of a lot of laughing.....
Two or three trips to all ass......
Posted by thoughtcriminal84 (Member # 480) on :
I've heard multiple theories on it's origin, but for lack of concrete evidence, my vote just goes to my favorite:
In the dark ages, "to fuck" meant to plant the seeds in a field. Presuming that most people were farmers and such, this sounds perfectly reasonable. But it's only my favorite. I have no proof.
Now, it's my favorite because I can so easily see some rustic type proudly proclaiming over breakfast:
"Time to go Fuck the field!" Or "It's a good day for Fucking, Wot?" Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"...go star-gazing on one's back..."
As opposed to stargazing on one's front, which is how it's normally done?
"...have a bun in the oven..."
I'm pretty sure this is what happens later...
"...go like a rat up a rhododendron..."
I like this one. :-)
Posted by G.K Nimrod (Member # 205) on :
Quote: bang, batter, beef, bumble, blow off the loose corns, bounce the brillo, dance the buttock jig, do a dive in the dark, flimp, flurgle, foin, foraminate, futz, get one's leather stretched, get one's nuts cracked, get one's oil changed, go bird's nesting, go bush-ranging, go like a rat up a rhododendron, go star-gazing on one's back, have a bun in the oven, have a game in the cock-loft, have a leap up the ladder, have hot pudding for supper, hide the ferret, hide the salami, hide the sausage, hive it, jazz it, knock it off, lay some pipe, light the lamp, lose the lamp and pocket the stake, make her grunt, mix one's peanut butter, palliardize, pestle, pheeze, pizzle, play cars and garages, plow, plug, plook, ram, rasp, ride below the crupper, shoot between wind and water, strop one's beak, varnish one's cane, wet one's wick, wind the clock, and work the hairy oracle
I'm aghast you got all that out of Canterbury Tales, Lee.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Actually, I got it from the Straight Dope link. Or maybe from the Snopes link, I'm sure Tim will set me straight. . .
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Strange. I'd have said that Tim would have done the exact opposite.
Posted by Tora Ziyal (Member # 53) on :
"Mix one's peanut butter" ???? How?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, you see, Diane, when a man and a woman love each other very much...
Actually, I don't get it, either. I'm not into the whole sex+food scene, personally.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
quote: Strange. I'd have said that Tim would have done the exact opposite.
LOL
quote: go star-gazing on one's back
I've heard a version of this one used once. Two people talking about an SCA gathering, one girl said something I didn't cacth, and a guy smiled at her and said "were you star gazing on your back", and she blused and said yes.
[ February 06, 2002, 13:53: Message edited by: Kosh ]
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