# "Fleching" is a very useful word

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fleching-is-a-very-useful-word/27436>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 30, 2000, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fleching-is-a-very-useful-word/27436 "2000-07-30T14:28:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2000, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fleching-is-a-very-useful-word/27436/1 "2000-07-30T14:28:42Z")

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Since cretins who doesn’t read the Straight  
Dope don’t know what it means, when you  
use it people think you are being nice  
and not using the other “effing” word.  
Like flipping and freaking.

Encouraging ignorance. It’s easier than  
you thought 😉

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fleching-is-a-very-useful-word/27436/2 "2000-07-30T14:38:33Z")

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You must mean “felching” and not “Fleching” or “Fletching”. Fletching has to do with putting feathers on arrows to make them fly further and straighter.

Now that I think about it, it could be rather funny to call somebody “a damned gerbil fletcher”.

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**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2000, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fleching-is-a-very-useful-word/27436/3 "2000-07-30T14:45:47Z")

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Isn’t fletching the act of stopping your meteroic fall as a washed-up comedic actor by making a reasonably entertaining undercover detective spoof?

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**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2000, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fleching-is-a-very-useful-word/27436/4 "2000-07-30T14:48:34Z")

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I don’t think I want to take the chance of using **THAT WORD** outside SDMB - its insidious nature is known beyond these boarders.

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2000, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fleching-is-a-very-useful-word/27436/5 "2000-07-30T18:19:42Z")

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I, for one, have taught both felch and squick to my academic team, which consists mainly of CS dorks. So I’m doing my part to corrupt America’s future drewbicle-occupyers.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fleching-is-a-very-useful-word/27436/6 "2000-07-31T12:25:28Z")

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I meant felching. I rarely use profanity  
and even have a hard time typing it  
correctly. I did tell someone “I don’t  
have to take your felching crap.” Nuff said.