# The governor of Massachusetts has WHAT?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387 "2011-08-11T22:43:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/21 "2011-08-12T13:46:53Z")
Maybe they’re just saying that the governor’s got a lot of spunk. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/22 "2011-08-12T13:57:01Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > we all saw what he did there. And since it was in the cum pool, we wish we hadn’t. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/23 "2011-08-12T14:00:34Z")
If it had been written as “…a 24-room house cum pool, 1,000 foot driveway, and squash court”, it would make sense. But as written, “scaled back to a mere 10 rooms, cum pool…” is just so, so wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/24 "2011-08-12T16:24:57Z")
Maybe it was originally something like “jacuzzi-cum-pool” and got edited in an unfortunate way. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/25 "2011-08-12T20:50:08Z")
I’d hate to be the pool boy for that house! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/26 "2011-08-12T23:09:40Z")
Is it twue what they say about the way you people are 'gifted? Zzzzzzzip! Oh it’s twue… it’s twue… it’s twue! ---
**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:** [August 13, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/27 "2011-08-13T02:07:24Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > If it had been written as “…a 24-room house cum pool, 1,000 foot driveway, and squash court”, it would make sense. Not really. As usually understood, a house-_cum_-pool would not be a house _with_ a pool (despite the Latin), but a _combination house and pool_ - say, a house with a floodable first floor and floating furniture. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/28 "2011-08-13T02:08:55Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > Actually, the article is off. There shouldn’t be a comma in the phrase “house _cum_ pool.” Putting a comma there suggests that, yes, there is a spooge depository out back. So, this is actually an editor’s sneaky little trick? I saw what he did there… ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/29 "2011-08-13T02:17:48Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > Actually, the article is off. There shouldn’t be a comma in the phrase “house _cum_ pool.” Putting a comma there suggests that, yes, there is a spooge depository out back. In the good ole days Fort Knox was actually full of gold. And now THIS is all we have to back up our currency? The shame… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/30 "2011-08-14T04:25:06Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > In the good ole days Fort Knox was actually full of gold. And now THIS is all we have to back up our currency? > > The shame… That explains the boom economy during Clinton’s presidency… ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/31 "2011-08-14T05:46:45Z")
Is it me or do some of those pictures look like screen shots from City of Wonder on Facebook? Especially #3, they look like Embassies. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/32 "2011-08-14T08:59:22Z")
As [Peter Gabriel sang](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0FBi5Rv1ho), “And my heaven will be a big heaven; and I will walk through the front door…” ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/33 "2011-08-14T21:06:33Z")
Conservatives have preached it for years, but after 7 years of gay marriage in Massachusetts, this was bound to happen. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/34 "2011-08-14T22:11:10Z")
I am not feeling the rage the either. There’s a bunch of nice houses in Massachusetts and I am happy that someone can still build new ones. It is a rich state and somebody has to have them. I am much happier knowing it is a governor rather than a Mafia figure. I am not a huge Duval Patrick fan but I don’t think he is corrupt or sleazy. If he has his own money to build one, good for him. Do people stay in a constant rage walking around Europe seeing all those fancy castles and elaborate chateaus everywhere? I don’t think so. This is minor league stuff in comparison. If they wanted to do a photo shoot of excessive New England mansions, they should have picked on Newport, R.I. but that is a tourist draw because those old ones are so over the top and lined up one after another. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/35 "2011-08-14T22:20:06Z")
Where’s the _cum_ line? It’s not on the page the OP links to. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/36 "2011-08-14T22:30:41Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Where’s the _cum_ line? It’s not on the page the OP links to. The original page linked to is now page 10 I think; “cum” has been changed to “with”, presumably as we’re not the only ones to point and giggle. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/37 "2011-08-14T22:55:56Z")
Ah, OK. Is that what the OP was referring to, though, or to the fact that the mansion’s just that big? If it’s the former, (s)he was expecting us to do a lot of work to look for that! ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/38 "2011-08-14T23:26:08Z")
They did change the caption to the house’s photo in the slideshow from “cum” to “with.” But the full story is currently using this wording: > [@](#): > > The original plans allowed him to build a 24-room house, though now it has been scaled back to **a mere 10 rooms-cum-pool** and 1,000-foot driveway. [http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/house/articles/2011/08/12/john\_henrys\_conspicuous\_construction/](http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/house/articles/2011/08/12/john_henrys_conspicuous_construction/) Still awkward wording, if you ask me. Ten rooms have their own pools?! Or is it that the cum-pool is the size of a mere ten rooms?! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387/39 "2011-08-15T00:58:03Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Ah, OK. Is that what the OP was referring to, though, or to the fact that the mansion’s just that big? If it’s the former, (s)he was expecting us to do a lot of work to look for that! I plead the Fifth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-massachusetts-has-what/592387.md?page=1)