# Sounds really dirty but isn't.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 8, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-really-dirty-but-isnt/776657 "2017-01-08T21:14:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-really-dirty-but-isnt/776657/101 "2017-06-25T10:13:49Z")

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Quincunx. And since it’s an arrangement of five things in a cross pattern, if it were made up of a certain fruit it could be a kumquat quincunx.

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**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-really-dirty-but-isnt/776657/102 "2017-06-27T23:04:38Z")

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> [@Peanuthead](#):
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> If you are a harmonica player you might sometimes “Blow a D”.

If you are a good harmonica player you may be able to “Blow a bent D.”😉

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sounds-really-dirty-but-isnt/776657/103 "2017-06-28T11:39:37Z")

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> [@billfish678](#):
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> From the laser world.
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> Stimulated Emission

Not to mention **Spontaneous Emission**

From the world of physics we also have

**Degenerate Perturbation Theory**  
And, as one professor pointed out, you don’t even need a perverted mind to think that some atomic orbitals look obscene:

[https://www.google.com/search?q=atomic+orbitals&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwidt-3HueDUAhVGOCYKHTOUCQoQ\_AUIBigB&biw=1440&bih=708#imgrc=xLoBUycKkWNygM:&spf=1498649803867](https://www.google.com/search?q=atomic+orbitals&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwidt-3HueDUAhVGOCYKHTOUCQoQ_AUIBigB&biw=1440&bih=708#imgrc=xLoBUycKkWNygM:&spf=1498649803867)

[https://www.google.com/search?q=atomic+orbitals&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwidt-3HueDUAhVGOCYKHTOUCQoQ\_AUIBigB&biw=1440&bih=708&dpr=1#imgrc=QKdP3WLMNBJYpM:&spf=1498649884795](https://www.google.com/search?q=atomic+orbitals&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwidt-3HueDUAhVGOCYKHTOUCQoQ_AUIBigB&biw=1440&bih=708&dpr=1#imgrc=QKdP3WLMNBJYpM:&spf=1498649884795)

[https://www.google.com/search?q=atomic+orbitals&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwidt-3HueDUAhVGOCYKHTOUCQoQ\_AUIBigB&biw=1440&bih=708&dpr=1#imgrc=ilB2tPxk7xnumM:&spf=1498649884798](https://www.google.com/search?q=atomic+orbitals&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwidt-3HueDUAhVGOCYKHTOUCQoQ_AUIBigB&biw=1440&bih=708&dpr=1#imgrc=ilB2tPxk7xnumM:&spf=1498649884798)

[https://www.google.com/search?q=atomic+orbitals&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwidt-3HueDUAhVGOCYKHTOUCQoQ\_AUIBigB&biw=1440&bih=708&dpr=1#imgrc=dReM\_2Ch7BN0WM:&spf=1498649884801](https://www.google.com/search?q=atomic+orbitals&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwidt-3HueDUAhVGOCYKHTOUCQoQ_AUIBigB&biw=1440&bih=708&dpr=1#imgrc=dReM_2Ch7BN0WM:&spf=1498649884801)

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