# Daisy Chain - does that still mean what I think it means? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 12, 2006, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daisy-chain-does-that-still-mean-what-i-think-it-means/368423 "2006-08-12T07:32:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daisy-chain-does-that-still-mean-what-i-think-it-means/368423/61 "2006-08-14T15:42:25Z")
Only heard that term in the lesbian sense. -Tcat ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daisy-chain-does-that-still-mean-what-i-think-it-means/368423/62 "2006-08-14T16:09:21Z")
Those who think of the term mostly as sexual, did you grow up where daisies grew commonly and were easily found. Daisies always grew in the school fields when I was in school, so real daisy ‘daisy chains’ were commonly made by girls during school playtimes. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daisy-chain-does-that-still-mean-what-i-think-it-means/368423/63 "2006-08-14T21:43:46Z")
When I was in high school, back during the Age of Aquarius, a daisy chain was the female equivalent of a circle jerk (a bunch of guys sitting in a circle masturbating each other.) Both were purely hypothetical; no one had actually seen either, let alone participated. When I was in college, I learned that a daisy chain (a sexual one, that is) was females giving each other oral sex. I actually saw a group of seven coeds try it at a party once after the beer had erased all semblance of inhibition. It was pee-my-pants funny (maybe it was just the beer, I don’t know) but there was nothing erotic about it. Most of the girls did it just to prove they could overcome the “ick factor,” and were mortified later that they’d participated. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daisy-chain-does-that-still-mean-what-i-think-it-means/368423/64 "2006-08-14T23:30:54Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] Perhaps I’m a little naive, but wouldn’t that end up being more of a daisy _pile_ ? [/QUOTE] Standing makes it easier. Or at least I’ve heard… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![samm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@samm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samm)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daisy-chain-does-that-still-mean-what-i-think-it-means/368423/65 "2006-08-14T23:37:14Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] And several years after that, I participated in the \*\*\*other \*\*\*kind of daisy chain a few times . . . all guys, oral only. [/QUOTE] So how do you get your pelvis facing one direction and your face 180 degrees to the person’s pelvis behind you? I’m trying to picture a bunch of men with their torsos all twisted around trying to form a circle of people so that everyone gets some.. It doesn’t seem practical or comfortable. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daisy-chain-does-that-still-mean-what-i-think-it-means/368423/66 "2006-08-14T23:46:18Z")
That’s the first time I have heard of the sexual connotation. I’ve _always_ known about the usage relating to children making strings of flowers, and I’ve been aware of the electronic/computing uses of the term since leaving college. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daisy-chain-does-that-still-mean-what-i-think-it-means/368423/67 "2006-08-14T23:50:01Z")
What seems strangest here is the degree of separation between the different meanings; for those of you that have never heard of the meaning relating to actual chains of daisy flowers, I’m curious… what then did you think was the reason for/meaning of the word ‘daisy’ in the phrase? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daisy-chain-does-that-still-mean-what-i-think-it-means/368423/68 "2006-08-15T05:07:24Z")
[QUOTE=samm] So how do you get your pelvis facing one direction and your face 180 degrees to the person’s pelvis behind you? I’m trying to picture a bunch of men with their torsos all twisted around trying to form a circle of people so that everyone gets some.. It doesn’t seem practical or comfortable. [/QUOTE] You’re making this way too complicated. There are two ways to do it. The easiest is with everyone on his side, with every other person facing the opposite direction. The other way is for every other person to be on his back, and the others on their stomachs. Obviously, the more people there are, the easier it gets, since the curvature of the circle is less. As long as it’s limited to oral sex, it should work with any combination of genders. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daisy-chain-does-that-still-mean-what-i-think-it-means/368423/69 "2006-08-15T14:27:26Z")
[QUOTE=Dangerosa] Chain of flowers, chain of scsi devices. Never knew it had a sexual connotation. [/QUOTE] Same here. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daisy-chain-does-that-still-mean-what-i-think-it-means/368423/70 "2006-08-15T19:28:55Z")
It’s all SCSI to me, though I am intrigued. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daisy-chain-does-that-still-mean-what-i-think-it-means/368423.md?page=3)