# Do you know phrases that sound dirty but have no dirty words ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936 "2000-05-19T02:16:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Elthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@Elthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elthia)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/41 "2000-05-20T16:51:53Z")
Geek: How fast is your ram? Hard drive or floppy? Put the floppy into the drive. Booting the Hard Drive Want to see some BIND tricks? You want root? Electronic: Plug the male connector into the female… I’m too sick and sleepy to think clearly right now, that’s all I could come up with 😕 -Elthia ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/42 "2000-05-20T17:24:53Z")
Some I remember from my music days: Greasing your trombone slide Practicing your fingering Excercising your embouchure Rosining your bow Oiling your valves Double-tounging Moistening your reed Adjusting the tension on the head Paradiddle Five stroke roll ---
**Author:** ![sorrel554](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@sorrel554](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sorrel554)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2000, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/43 "2000-05-20T17:35:17Z")
Here’s the Letterman list that people were trying to find: Top Ten Expressions That Sound Dirty But Really Aren’t 1. Frosting the Pastry 2. Shooting Hoops 3. Jumping the Turnstile 4. Checking Your Oil 5. Tethering the Blimp 6. Sending Out for Sushi 7. Picnic on the Grass 8. Quarter-Pounder at the Golden Arches 9. Shaking Hands with Abraham Lincoln 10. Wind-Surfing on Mount Baldy 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainWeasel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@BrainWeasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainWeasel)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/44 "2000-05-20T20:26:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Some I remember from my music days: > > Greasing your trombone slide > Practicing your fingering > Excercising your embouchure > Rosining your bow > Oiling your valves > Double-tounging > Moistening your reed > Adjusting the tension on the head > Paradiddle > Five stroke roll When my orchestra meets in sectionals to practice a particularly difficult piece, we divide up by instruments, and, since each group plays the same thing, we started calling them homosectionals. Of course, us string players have a good time, since all of our instruments have f-holes and G strings. ---
**Author:** ![Quadzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/a4c791/32.png) [@Quadzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quadzilla)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2000, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/45 "2000-05-21T03:36:09Z")
Hee-hee…we had one in Quiz Bowl that hacked off our coach to no end. From time to time, we’d eat something in the bus and try to talk to each other - that was bad enough in her eyes. But this one time, we got the entire bus rolling in the aisle when she yelled, “What are you all doing back there???” (For the record, I think we were trying to play a card game of some sort.) My S.O. yelled back, with a mouthful of chips, “We’re masticating!!!” As I tell this, a saying comes to mind: “Clean mind or clean body, you pick.” ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/46 "2000-05-21T04:12:19Z")
From an astrology website: “How did Helene come to be in Dione’s Lagrange point?” Referring to the orbit of two of Saturn’s moons, if you must know. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/47 "2000-05-21T04:24:19Z")
I mean, an astronomy website. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/48 "2000-05-22T04:35:33Z")
From the OP: > [@](#): > > this stuff kills the boss. (She always can top 3 or 4 employees taking her on at once.) And Matt, I was about to say… An astrologer who’d heard of Lagrange points? Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Oat\_Willie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/85e7bf/32.png) [@Oat\_Willie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oat_Willie)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/49 "2000-05-22T04:46:37Z")
Slip of the tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/50 "2000-05-22T14:59:48Z")
Beer Making References: Milling the Grist. Protein rest. (Letting the grain sit in water at 120F) Multi-Stage Decoction Mash. Sparging the mash. Watching the headspace. (while bottling) Dry-Hopping with Fuggles. Pitching the Yeast. (this sounds awful, but I could not leave it out) ---
**Author:** ![blank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a4c791/32.png) [@blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blank)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/51 "2000-05-28T01:59:29Z")
Shampooing the rug. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Alpha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/52 "2000-05-28T05:21:02Z")
He says he has a Petting Zoo, but only has one snake,if you know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![enteem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b4bc9f/32.png) [@enteem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enteem)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/53 "2000-05-28T15:17:23Z")
Does “doper” used as “Straight Dope reader” count? It really had me fooled. I thought everyone here was supposted to be a 60’s dropout or something. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/54 "2000-05-28T22:07:22Z")
Hey, I was in a deli the other day and noticed a hand-lettered sign they had put up explaining why their store-brand sausage was so good. It read, in part: 1. First we bone the choicest pork butts… I didn’t want to know anything else they did after that. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/55 "2000-05-28T22:34:05Z")
There’s a new word going around my school that is used as a curse word. **MURFUR!** Pronounced phonetically, fast or slow. I have no clue as to its origin. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/56 "2000-05-28T22:43:13Z")
Garfield, I hate to nitpick, but the accurate quote for your sig. is “My friend, either you are closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge, or you are unaware of the caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of a pool table in your community.” Congrats on getting the Prof’s alma mater and graduation class correct. I had forgotten he was Gold Medal Class. ---
**Author:** ![X-files](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/76d3ee/32.png) [@X-files](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X-files)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2000, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/57 "2000-05-29T00:26:32Z")
Prestidigitation ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2000, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/58 "2000-05-29T04:26:57Z")
Dave, are you going from the movie? I am, and my soundtrack just says, “Well. . .” ---
**Author:** ![Wood\_Thrush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@Wood\_Thrush](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wood_Thrush)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2000, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/59 "2000-05-29T05:18:09Z")
Once, a boy in my class, not known for his mastery of words, was responding to the (female) teacher saying he failed infront of the whole class. > [@](#): > > Why do you have to give me a low blow like that? The class started giggling. He realized what he said and began corrections. > [@](#): > > No, I mean you’re giving me a blow down low— a low blow, you know? Er, a blow low down! The class was in an uproar by then. BTW, he didn’t get in trouble. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2000, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936/60 "2000-05-29T06:05:12Z")
A few years ago, I got an e-mail from a friend with the “Top 10” dirty lines from each of the original three Star Wars movies. Some of them included: “You came in that thing? You’re braver than I thought.” “Get on top of it!” “Pull out, Wedge! You can’t do any more good back there.” “And I thought these things smelled bad on the outside.” “Not bad, for a little fuzzball.” “You want this, don’t you?” One line that wasn’t on the list, but my wife always thought should be, was by the Emperor in Return of the Jedi: “I can feel your hate swelling within you.” That particular line has thus become a euphamism for us for when something else is swelling… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-have-no-dirty-words/19936.md?page=4)