I think this may be a generational thing. Old farts like Dale (sorry, Dale) and me learned this phrase in our youths as short for "bone-head", i.e. dumb. The more obscene connotations are, I believe, more recent. One shouldn't have to ban a prefectly good English phrase just because some vulgar persons have recently perverted its meaning.
Regards,
Jerry "sometimes guilty of bone-head moves" Moos Houston, TX
> "> Please keep it clean. I find the use of the term "boner" to be
extremely
> offensive. I thought this list had ethics.
> > Pam J Knight
> > Western New York"
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> I haven't heard the term mentioned, in that context, since I was in junior
> high school. The term "boner" has been used, for years, as a synonym for
> doing something really dumb, as in "I really pulled a boner" (I'm sure,
put
> that way, you're even more offended).
>
> Grow up, Pam, and come into the 21st century. Or join a convent. Jeez!
>
> John Dunn in Boise, who hopes he hasn't pulled a "boner" by being trolled
by
> Pam. This is so stupid I suppose it's more than possible. Is Pam for
real?
> ;-)
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> > OROBOYZ@aol.com wrote:In a message dated 10/1/2002 4:58:46 PM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> > rrose@normandassociates.com writes:
> >
> > << This seller claims that the track bike that he is selling is a Rhen
> > Shun, apparently the name of a Japanese track racer? >>
> >
> > Could it be a hugely smeared up pronunciation boner and they
> > mean..................3 (San) Rensho?
> >
> > Dale Brown
> > Greensboro, NC
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