I remember we had a High School social studies class on “Interaction” and we giggled about that because it was so close to “Intercourse”. Kids can be very weird.
I would think it would sound more like intercourse + erection, myself.
I hear that in much much of the American midwest, homophones are allowed to marry, merry, or even Mary these days.
From Torkildson’s blog:
http://iwritetheblogggs.com/2014/07/24/the-homophones-got-me-a-record-of-a-recent-firing/
This man is a registered pedagogue!
That’s a bit of a stretch, I remember a teacher mentioning something about intellectual intercourse that took us a second to put together and my Spanish teacher once asked someone translate something and afterwards the teacher said “that was quite the pregnant pause”. I’m sure I was the only person that went (in my head) “what, oh, I guess that makes sense”
It’s milk for your beard? 
And he masticates several times a day!
I went to an Ivy League college, where you’d expect economics students to be fairly serious and mature. But in statistics class, any time the professor pointed out that a given graph was “homoscedastic,” the whole class would start snickering or giggling.
According to the * Book of Lists 2, * in 1950 Claude Pepper, campaigning in the primary for a U. S. Senate seat in Florida, was the victim of dirty fighting by his opponent. He said that Pepper’s sister was a “thespian,” he was “a known extravert” [sic] and his brother was a “practicing homo sapiens.” When Pepper went to college, he “matriculated.” Worst of all, he “practiced celibacy” before marriage. Of course, rural voters were repelled at this and Pepper lost.
Who needs issues when you can fight dirty? :rolleyes:
Sometimes I wish * Roget’s Thesaurus* had never been published.
I thought I smelled bullshit. But the supposed quotes were published in Time and Life.
As far as the principal goes, my money’s on homo insipiens.
Well, maybe now you know better than to assume someone is shining you on!
Decades ago in a largely male graduate school public policy program that included microeconomics and econometrics, I penned these lyrics for a male classmate to sing in the talent show - we were singing to the Gilbert and Sullivan tune “My Eyes Are Fully Open (It Really Doesn’t Matter)”:
With only twenty women, there’s no female elasticity
Supply can’t meet demand, so there’s homoscedasticity.
Over 30 years later, I’m still pleased with myself for coming up with those lines.
They were still a hoax. Time and Life got fooled by the hoax. Doesn’t make the hoax true.
Got Homo?
Shouldn’t that be “insipidens”?