# "Manquake": real word? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 24, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manquake-real-word/397358 "2007-03-24T21:27:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manquake-real-word/397358/1 "2007-03-24T21:27:32Z")
I got “Doctor Zhivago” from Netflix today. The description on the label reads in part: “A brilliant, epic film about a man (Omar Sharif) and his mistress (Julie Christie) caught up in the manquake of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.” Now, if I become a pornstar, I will certainly consider making this my porn name. But in any other context, would anyone consider this to be a proper usage? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manquake-real-word/397358/2 "2007-03-24T21:44:28Z")
Manquakes. Manquakes with butter and maple syrup! [Charleton Heston] Manquakes are pee-pul![/Charleton Heston] ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manquake-real-word/397358/3 "2007-03-24T21:54:08Z")
God what a horrible construction (if it isn’t a misprint or something)! Googling, it appears that someone called Bernard Berenson may be to blame. Damn his eyes! ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manquake-real-word/397358/4 "2007-03-24T22:42:09Z")
I have no idea what it means, but it conjures images of morbidly obese people, running. If I didn’t know it came from Dr. Zhivago, I wouldn’t doubt that meaning, either. ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manquake-real-word/397358/5 "2007-03-25T17:46:25Z")
All I can think of is the monkeybusiness with [macaques](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaque) ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manquake-real-word/397358/6 "2007-03-26T02:10:20Z")
Letting a fart that others can feel besides the traditional hear and smell. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manquake-real-word/397358/7 "2007-03-26T03:03:14Z")
Could a mantrain run after a manquake? Or would it fall into a manhole? ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manquake-real-word/397358/8 "2007-03-26T08:15:43Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Could a mantrain run after a manquake? Or would it fall into a manhole? [/QUOTE] More importantly, could a manplane take off from a treadmill?