# Another "things that aren't meant to, but sound dirty" thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 27, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395 "2006-09-27T18:39:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/21 "2006-09-28T08:03:19Z")
For a long time I thought “gesticulating wildly” was a euphemism for “doing it”. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/22 "2006-09-28T15:15:07Z")
Cockles. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/23 "2006-09-28T15:17:49Z")
from back when Letterman was midly funny and relevant: Top 10 Expressions that Sound Dirty but Really Aren’t 10. “Frosting the pastry” 9. “Shooting hoops” 8. “Jumping the turnstile” 7. “Checking your oil” 6. “Tethering the blimp” 5. “Sending out for sushi” 4. “Picnic on the grass” 3. “Quarter-pounder at the Golden Arches” 2. “Shaking hands with Abraham Lincoln” 1. “Windsurfing on Mount Baldy” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/24 "2006-09-28T15:22:00Z")
[QUOTE=Ruby] Fudrucker’s Restaurant sounds naughty. [/QUOTE] Indeed! I’ve been calling them Rudfuckers for years now. Pianist Oral fixation (Seriously, it’s the only reason I ever smoke cigarettes!) Dipstick ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/25 "2006-09-28T15:33:41Z")
“Wankel Rotary Engine.” “ballcock” – a perfectly innocent plumbing supply. “plumbing supply,” for that matter, especially “female plumbing supplies” Other actual plumbing supplies that sound dirty include “male coupling,” “female coupling,” “female/male coupling,” “male adapter,” “Male connector,” “Male/female swivel aerator\*,” “pipe nipple” and “stopcock.” \*Hell, everything about the male/female designation in plumbing is sexual. Why do you think they use those terms? ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/26 "2006-09-28T15:37:08Z")
[QUOTE=The Weird One] Indeed! I’ve been calling them Rudfuckers for years now. [/QUOTE] Seven year-old Kizarvexilla, who is normally the language police of the family (“Daddy, _that_ was a naughty word!”), said “Rudfuckers” recently. I was too busy trying not to crash the car to think about chastising her for it. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/27 "2006-09-28T15:40:38Z")
“She scared the dickens out of me.” ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/28 "2006-09-28T15:58:34Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] \*Hell, everything about the male/female designation in plumbing is sexual. Why do you think they use those terms? [/QUOTE] Some connectors receive other connectors, they’re just the right size to accomodate them. Those are called female connectors. The connectors that fit tightly into the female connectors are male. Do I make you horny baby? I suppose they could have called them A & B or X & Y, but anybody old enough to be doing plumbing should know how the male & female plumbing works already. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/29 "2006-09-28T16:18:06Z")
I had a woman call in at work one day who said, “I’m looking for parts for my husband.” (Good Og, woman, you wore them out!) We also deal with naughty-sounding bits, too. Drain cocks, pistons, bowl nuts, high speed screws, blowing O-rings and sanding nipples are common terms around here. (I work in small engine and compressor parts) ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/30 "2006-09-28T16:20:58Z")
Oh, did I mention filler tubes? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/31 "2006-09-28T16:24:59Z")
[QUOTE=Manatee] Binder (if you’re into that sort of thing) [/QUOTE] Binder? I don’t even know her! ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/32 "2006-09-28T16:28:06Z")
We have a new Thai restaurant in town called **Phuket**. I’m told it’s properly pronounced “poo-ket”. That’s not how the folks around here pronounce it. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/33 "2006-09-28T16:42:40Z")
Industrial vibrator. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/34 "2006-09-28T17:27:37Z")
I did inventory for a company once. On the list of stuff was “Pocket Pull”. Didn’t know what it was or where it was kept. One of the guys working with me chimed in with, “I got yer Pocket Pull right here!” Laughed for 45 minutes! Still get a chuckle now and then. (Its a recessed plactic grab handle) ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/35 "2006-09-28T18:02:30Z")
Pretty much anything of the form “[verb]ing the [noun]” sounds like a euphemism for masturbation. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/36 "2006-09-28T18:09:11Z")
[QUOTE=Absolute] [verb]ing the [noun] [/QUOTE] \ ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/37 "2006-09-28T18:09:52Z")
There is a woman on the local TV news here named Amber Philpot. I can’t decide if she sounds like a commode color, or a stripper. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/38 "2006-09-28T18:32:27Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] There is a woman on the local TV news here named Amber Philpot. I can’t decide if she sounds like a commode color, or a stripper. [/QUOTE] Yup. In Chicago, we bring you: [Dick Johnson](http://www.nbc5.com/station/1658773/detail.html) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/39 "2006-09-28T18:37:47Z")
And from Baltimore: [Deborah Weiner](http://www.thewbalchannel.com/wbalnewsteam/2101035/detail.html) ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/40 "2006-09-28T18:39:35Z")
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