# Another "things that aren't meant to, but sound dirty" thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395>\
**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\
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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/41 "2006-09-28T19:07:45Z")

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[QUOTE=Ruby]  
And practically anything having to do with golf…balls, shafts, drives, holes, ad infinitum  
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Old golf jokes and passing references often played on the now-obsolete term [mashie niblick.](http://golf.about.com/cs/golfterms/g/bldef_mashienib.htm)

From the world of food: Kumquats

Add to the personal names: [Dickensheets](http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/fact.aspx?fid=7&ln=Dickensheets&fn=)

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**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, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/42 "2006-09-28T21:39:03Z")

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[QUOTE=freckafree]  
Formication.  
[/QUOTE]  
Mastication.

[QUOTE=control-z]  
The connectors that fit tightly into the female connectors are male.

[/QUOTE]  
I’ve been working with serial data a lot lately. I just ordered some new DB9 male-male gender-benders, because I can never find a male connector when I need one.

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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/43 "2006-09-29T03:26:52Z")

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“James, you always were a cunning linguist”. Miss Moneypenny on the phone to James Bond in that Bond flick as he was coming out from under the sheets “brushing up on his French” with a piece of Danish.

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**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/44 "2006-09-29T03:43:28Z")

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From a very recently disappeared thread…

“IF WE WILL ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS OUR LORD WITH OUR MOUTH…”

(Talkinga bout saying some sort of prayer).

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**Author:** ![The\_Golden\_Ass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@The\_Golden\_Ass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Golden_Ass)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/45 "2006-09-29T05:04:19Z")

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I was watching football last week and practically ever word out of the commentator’s mouth sounded dirty. But the one I’m still snickering about is “Well, the coach really likes the tightends to handle his balls.”

Okay!

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/46 "2006-09-29T08:26:08Z")

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[Vibration White Finger](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/260459.stm) - it’s a disease to which people who work with vibrating machinery are prone.

[Flushed Grollings](http://www.geocities.com/mmemym/bits2/fal0077.htm) (OK, that one isn’t for real)

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/47 "2006-09-29T08:27:28Z")

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And how could we have neglected Uranus?

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**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/48 "2006-09-29T09:02:50Z")

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Bowling a maiden over.  
(And never neglect Uranus.)

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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/49 "2006-09-29T11:39:05Z")

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The wheat disease Karnal Bunt.

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**Author:** ![hlanelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hlanelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hlanelee)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/50 "2006-09-29T11:52:36Z")

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I have used multivibe screeders and even wet screeders

to lay concrete…He said…“Lay” 😃

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**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 29, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/51 "2006-09-29T12:48:55Z")

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Did I miss it, or has nobody mentioned “nuts and bolts” yet?

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/52 "2006-09-29T12:59:26Z")

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[QUOTE=betenoir]  
(And never neglect Uranus.)  
[/QUOTE]  
Wouldn’t dream of it, in fact I’d like to launch a probe to analyse the ring around Uranus.

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**Author:** ![BunnyTVS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BunnyTVS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyTVS)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/53 "2006-09-29T14:30:29Z")

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Complete hijack here, but I can’t resist.

Does anyone else think that **chlamydia** sounds like a lovely name for a garden plant?

> [@](#):
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> Well here we have a breathtaking display of chlamydia. I really haven’t seen anything like it since my holiday in Thailand in 1993.

No-one?

Oh…Kay… Just me then.

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/54 "2006-09-29T14:46:38Z")

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You can’t go wrong if you have a Big Johnson!

Anybody remember those posters? All I can find is a [sucky image](http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Big-Johnson-Posters_i856267_.htm) of a composition of all the posters. They are a total hoot.

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**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/55 "2006-09-29T14:57:33Z")

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I’ve played with a [wang](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Laboratories) !

Emergency departments get lots of SOBs (Shortness of Breath).

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**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/56 "2006-09-29T23:46:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Mangetout]  
Wouldn’t dream of it, in fact I’d like to launch a probe to analyse the ring around Uranus.  
[/QUOTE]

Ok but you have to buy me dinner first.

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**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/57 "2006-09-30T01:09:31Z")

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[QUOTE=js\_africanus]  
Industrial vibrator.  
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Yup. When my garage was being built, I rented an industrial vibrator when the concrete was being poured. The manufacturer of that piece of equipment was Wacker.

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**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/58 "2006-09-30T01:19:14Z")

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“Bear Erectors”  
Construction supplier in Rochester, NY.  
Imagine that painted in 8 ft lettering on a large delivery truck.

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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/59 "2006-09-30T12:42:45Z")

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Condiments.

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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-things-that-arent-meant-to-but-sound-dirty-thread/374395/60 "2006-09-30T14:37:40Z")

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Esoteric things-you know, the things that make you horny.

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