Anyone who knows me well knows I love slang. Particularly foul, sexually explicit slang. It just cracks me up. And "felch" is always a favorite. It's so shocking! So few people know what it is!
This week it came up at work. My coworker asked if someone was "filching" and I misheard it. I said, "Did you just say, "felching"? No one knew what I was talking about. They became curious. They pressed the issue.
Being somewhat modest due to a strict Protestant upbringing (we only have sex, we don't talk about it), I couldn't tell them the definition. I made them look it up on that new-fangled Internet thingy. Turns out, it's on Wikipedia (also home to a very nice definition of Mad Dog). No where near the quality of the Random House Dictionary of American Slang - of which I am reportedly a contributor, thanks to PWTS - but pretty decent nonetheless.
The best thing about the Wikipedia entry is that it has the "Cultural References" section. However, this one neglected the "Family Guy" reference - a marquee for Chevy Chase in "Felch". That was a play on "Fletch". Get it?
While we're at it, if anyone knows the definition of "donkey punching" (not in terms of logging), please share. It's a current research question.
I will discuss the Random House Dictionary of American Slang tomorrow, at greater length. You will find that if you Google it, you find it is not complete. That is disturbing as it is the best, most well researched dictionary of slang I've ever found. It's a shame (and yet fitting) that it was never published past the H-O volume. Which, for those who are completely stupid, spells HO. As in whore or prostitute.
UPDATE: I took the 2 minutes or less it requires to Google "donkey punch". That's on Wikipedia too! My parents are going to start thinking Wikipedia is the Antichrist if they keep this up! Some people think Wikipedia is all lies but personally, I believe every single word.
I would also like to note that, as an MBA candidate, I may at some point be required to write a paper where I can use the phrase "donkey punch" since it was apparently used to refer to some Enron dealings.
Sex, business and politics. So much in common.
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I wish I had found out what a donkey punch was first, she would have never seen that coming.
What I'm astounded by is when a particular sexual slang term becomes all the rage--I can hardly turn on the tv without hearing the term "MILF." When a term gets used so frequently, are we to assume everybody's doing it, or can we only handle one word's worth of naughtiness at a time?
Really, any sex acronym appeals to me. With all the acronyms we use on a daily basis, consider the filthy conversations you could have without anyone else knowing. After all, who would think ATM means anything other than Automated Teller Machine?
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