Sure this phrase is just a mishearing of Goa Trope? Referring of course to the meme of the famously disorganised former Portuguese colony in India, now virtually a hippie colony.
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When Al Goldstein the publisher of Screw Magazine wrote about orgies he referred to them as the art of the clusterfuck. That somehow sticks with me.
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Yes, I suppose it would adhere rather stubbornly.
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When Al Goldstein the publisher of Screw Magazine wrote about orgies he referred to them as the art of the clusterfuck. That somehow sticks with me.
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well, it would be sticky
Another favorite in the Navy was describing something as “like watching monkeys trying to fuck a football.”
The genius of this description is almost Zen-like.
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My wife and I were trying to figure out where this phrase came from and why it’s associated with something that’s a complete mess. Wiki isn’t much help. My take is that it’s a polite version of “It’s a clusterfuck” (which, by the way, doesn’t make any sense either), and it’s amusing because of the image of someone roping goats. Also, I recall using the phrase to poke fun at C&W music fans: goat-roper music, as opposed to bull rider, calf roper, shit kicker (another puzzler), etc.
So I turn to the Dope to enlighten us as to the etymology of this quaint phrase. Any clues?
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Clusterfuck as I heard it , was to denote a screw up commited by a major.
Declan
A friend of mine worked for a lobster fisherman who was ex Coast Guard. He refered to any pleasure boater as a “goat roper”. Especially those who got into trouble and had to call for help.
It is my misfortune to own a goat. Yes, I am a goat roper. Have you ever had the pleasure of untangling a rope after a goat has been working on it? Thats all I’m going to say on this subject, except if some one offers you a goat “to eat the poisen ivy” don’t partake.
Bob Z
NE Pa
But is it true that goat ropes are nine yards long?
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Another favorite in the Navy was describing something as “like watching monkeys trying to fuck a football.”
The genius of this description is almost Zen-like.
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It was my experience that the football usually came out on top.
[QUOTE=Mr. Moto]
Another favorite in the Navy was describing something as “like watching monkeys trying to fuck a football.”
The genius of this description is almost Zen-like.
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Drill Sergeant variant (about a clumsy recruit): “Watchin’ that boy tie his bootlaces is like watching a retard trying to fuck a doorknob.”
I remember this term coming up in one of my books of curious phrases as:
Meaning, of course, that the speaker has seen everything. As I recall, this was supposed to be the clean version, the dirty one using either the word “fucking” or “raping.”
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While the military no doubt appropriated the “clusterfuck” to mean a SNAFU, it originally was used, just like it sounds, in the 1960s to refer to group orgies.
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Perhaps I’m overly formal, but I’d always heard the full phrase as a “Mongolian clusterf__k.” Why that particular intensifier, haven’t a clue.
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Perhaps I’m overly formal, but I’d always heard the full phrase as a “Mongolian clusterf__k.” Why that particular intensifier, haven’t a clue.
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That was from a George Carlin routine. It was when he expanded his seven dirty words. He pulled out a roll of paper and let it roll across the stage. Mongolian Clusterfuck was one of his terms.
Here you can see Carlin go through the list. You have to wait till about 5:41 to hear MCF. (Just footage of Carlin on stage but obviously the language is NSFW) That clip is from 82. I seem to remember it getting longer.
Here’s a classic goat rope:
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A 76-year-old Baptist minister was found dead in Clarksville, Tenn., in March after he had tried to pull a goat back into a fenced-in area of his property; apparently, the goat had resisted the slip knot, and somehow the animal’s jumping had wound the rope around the minister’s feet and neck, and he had begun to turn blue by the time his wife found him. [Leaf Chronicle (Clarksville), 3-19-08]
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See here.
Sailboat
Please, for the love of Maude, what in the blue fuck is an Alabama dick dance?!
Did I somehow miss the explanation somewhere?
It’s just like a goat rope only with less rope.
Looking at it from another point of view, it’s just like a clusterfuck without the cluster.
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That was from a George Carlin routine. It was when he expanded his seven dirty words. He pulled out a roll of paper and let it roll across the stage. Mongolian Clusterfuck was one of his terms.
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Ah! This brings back memories of what I thought was the ultimate putdown of a none-to-enchanting individual:
“He looks like the syphilitic remains of a Mongolian Grudge Fuck”
Misread thread title as “It’s a complete goat rape”.
Just imagine my disappointment.
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Misread thread title as “It’s a complete goat rape”.
Just imagine my disappointment.
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I think initiations take place in MPSIMS.
When I was a tyke, an eon or so ago, a “goat-roper” was someone considered a hick even by the residents of a small, rural town. It also applied to certain types of cowboy boots, but I was never sure just what made a pair of boots “goat-ropers”. It may have been along the line of “shit-kickers”, but then I was never quite sure just what those were either. (My boot education was sadly lacking.)
And I, too, am still waiting for the exact definition of Alabama Dick Dance. Nuances, people, nuances are important!
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Here’s a classic goat rope:
See here.
Sailboat
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http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080318/NEWS01/80318015
Hmmmm. If it really went down the way the family says it went down, any reason you’d need to shoot the goat?