Re: REQ: a dork!
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 12:29:12 +0100, "Carl R. White" <crw...@comp.bradx.xac.uk> wrote: >On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, peter cliffe wrote: > >> > Could someone please post or email an ascii picture of a dork ( >> > preferably an Oriental dork wearing glasses )? Please, please! I will >> > be very grateful. >> > >> > Best regards, >> > >> > Siu Ling >> !!!!! In England a dork means, er, how can I put this? >> erm, it means a penis! Are you sure you want a drawing of >> one of them wearing sunglasses? guffaw guffaw! What does dork >> mean in the States? >> :-) Pete > >I don't know which part of the UK you're from Peter, but I've never heard >male genitals called a dork before, and I've been on this God-forsaken >island for nearly all my born days (I went to France once, oh, yeah and >the Isle of Man :) ). > >Common euphemisms I've heard for it, are: >>>>>>>>SNIP....(ouch)<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Actually in my part of the NW US dork would have made the list of euphemisms when I was much younger. But evidently since some kids grow up calling people names without knowing what they mean, now you see children scripted to use this word in TV shows. It always seemed to refer to a person as that object though and usually not the object itself and as opposed to calling someone a p***k was more like calling them a really dumb oddball p***k or maybe a wanker.....
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,5ecdee5991aa4c X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: los...@sea.com (Dirk Taylor) Subject: Re: REQ: a dork! Date: 1997/10/16 Message-ID: <344647ed.135370364@news>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 281500150 References: <344...@total.net> <344...@oldstreet.agw.bt.co.uk> <Pin...@dcsun7.comp.brad.ac.uk> Organization: Internet Connection, Spokane, WA, USA Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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