on 10/05/2002 10:07 AM, Jerry & Liz Moos at jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> 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.
I'd be interested in knowing the generation to which you are referring ... as early as 1976, when I was 10 years old, "boner" had its more colorful meaning.
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