Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V10 #129

["Colin Childs" <Colin.Childs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Intellect - faculty of knowing and good reasoning.

Lack of Intellect - ......................................................


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hughes" <john@pureneasy.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <TheWho@igtc.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V10 #129


> Bill, re
> 
>  > > And last but not least, the immortal words of the captain of the
>  > > Titanic, who said "Full speed ahead and fuck the iceberg" and five
>  > > minutes later said
>  > >
>  > > "Where is all this fucking water coming from?
> 
> Its root is unclear; its earliest recorded use is before 1500, from the 
> English-Latin poem Flen flyys: "Non sunt in celi quia fuccant uuiuys of 
> heli" ("They are not in heaven because they fuck the wives of Ely").
> 
> There is an evident connection to the German word ficken (to fuck, in 
> dialects: to rub, to scratch, and historically: to strike), and to the 
> Latin futuere (hence the French foutre and Italian fottere), but there 
> is considerable doubt and no clear lineage for these derivations.
> 
> It has cognates in other Germanic languages, such as Middle Dutch fokken 
> (to thrust, to copulate), dialectical Norwegian fukka (to copulate), and 
> dialectical Swedish focka (to strike, copulate) and fock (penis).
> 
> There is perhaps even an original Celtic derivation; futuere being 
> related to battuere (to strike, to copulate); which may be related to 
> Irish bot and Manx bwoid (penis). The argument is that battuere and 
> futuere (like the Irish and Manx words) comes from the Celtic *bactuere 
> (to pierce), from the root buc- (a point). An even earlier root may be 
> the Egyptian petcha (to copulate), which has a highly suggestive 
> hieroglyph.
> 
> Part of the reason for the difficulty of the etymology is that the word 
> was too taboo for the original Oxford English Dictionary.
> 
> There are many imaginative, false folk etymologies, including the 
> acronyms "Fornication Under Consent of the King", which was supposedly 
> placed on signs above houses in medieval England during times of 
> population control, and "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", supposedly 
> written on the stocks above people who committed adultery or "Forced 
> Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" in various things linked to rape cases. These 
> acronyms were never heard before the 1960s, according to the 
> authoritative lexicographical work, The F-Word.
> 
> And finally, to keep this withing the bounds of an on topic post, who 
> can forget the famouw words of Pete Townshend,
> 
> Fuck off of my fucking stage!! TO aBBIE hOFFMAN.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 
> "Where'd that fucking tree come from?" - Marc Bolan
> 
> "That's not a real fucking gun." - John Lennon
> 
> "Who's gonna fucking find out?"- Richard Nixon
> 
> "Heads are going to fucking roll." - Anne Boleyn
> 
> "Let the fucking woman drive." - Commander of Space Shuttle
> 
> "It does so fucking look like her!" - Picasso
> 
> "How the fuck did you work that out?" - Pythagoras
> 
> "Fuck a duck."- Walt Disney
> 
> "I could do with some fucking rain here" - Joan of Arc
> 
> "Scattered fucking showers my ass." - Noah
> 
> "I need this parade like I need a fucking hole in my head."
> - John F. Kennedy