I suppose I should also state that the word “gramamr” in my last post was not meant to be humourous, but was rather a typo. The word “grammar” was what I actually meant. I am sorry if I made you erupt into fits of unintended laughter. 
Well, you outed yourself . . . I’m glad to hear it was an unintended typo! I agree—I didn’t bust into that thread with any inappropriate cracks, either. I’d have had to Pit myself if I’d done that!
No Pit thread needed 
Let’s save em for those more deserving…
I noticed it too, and immediately read the post in an Andy Sipowicz NYPD Blue voice.
I don’t mean to trivialize your sympathies at all, CuriousCanuck, but I have to admit that I smiled a little when I saw that typo.
[whew]
I didn’t want, of course, to intrude on the horror of your thread, which—till I saw that one post—nearly had me “balling” as well . . .
. . . Now, as for the other guy in that other thread, who “nearly balled his eyes out . . .”
Heh heh…it took me a long time to realize that Led Zeppelin wasn’t singing “I got a woman, wanna bawl all day…”
Ah, so young, so naive.
You may be thinking of ‘booking’ as in, “I was really booking in my Corvette, but the Maserati passed me like I was standing still.”
‘Balling’ as a synonym for fucking was very much a late 60s - early 70s thing. But since the implication is obvious, and term hasn’t been overwritten with more recent meanings, it’s still retained its meaning despite the lack of use.
Not sure if I’m being whooshed… is ‘ballsed up’ meaning exactly that in common usage, or just here?
OK, now that Zut and Cannuck have both made nicenice…can I get a link?
No, no links, please, zut’s thread is too sad for this to be attached to it, which is why I didn’t name names.
You said something about wanting to have such a look or learn to have it—something along those lines. I tried to reply to the effect that I would bet that you do have that look and wouldn’t have to learn it, but the dern board timed out on me.
Anyway, Jack Kerouak used “balling” in the sexual sense in “On the Road” back in the mid to late 1950s, so it pre-dates the hippie era. I don’t think it was in really common use until the 60s, though.