Walloon doesn't say sucks

The BBQ Pit
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i.e., Whoop dee freakin’ doo.

When challenged on this nonsensical bit of snobbery, he responds with:

and links to a cite that says the word may originate from fellatio, but may also originate from a reference to a baby’s nursing.

He asked me to explain my comment in the thread, so here it is: with your nose that high in the air, I figure you must spend all your time looking at the heavens. Not an all-time winner in the clever retort category, I know, but I wasn’t trying for that. I don’t know what kind of get-offa-my-lawn curmudgeon you are in real life, but on the Internet, you’re behaving like a first-class threadcrapper.

Daniel
who knows this is lame and minor, but who can’t really post an explanation in Cafe Society

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I was under the impression that “sucks” derived from the term “sucks eggs” or “sucks the hind teat”, etc. I have no cite.

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I always thought that it had to do with ‘sucking eggs’ myself.

Then again, I also thought that Waloon was being an elitist prick…just not enough to bother with a Pit thread.

-Joe

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I always thought it referred to sucking, well you know. Anyway, sometimes the coarser word is the better fit. There are times when you would be better off using “ain’t” than “is not.”

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I say “sucks”, and I did read a book once.

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Cite?

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What is it about reading that gets some people all uppity? Guess what, literacy doesn’t make you a genius.

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a reply to the blog entry Walloon linked in the thread LHOD linked suggests as much.

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I wonder if Walloon refuses to read books with expletives – so as not to offend his delicate sensibilities and all? *“Do people who actually use the word sucks read books” * indeed! What a rag. :rolleyes:

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This thread sucks.

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Just kidding, LHoD! I couldn’t resist! :slight_smile:

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Yeah, there’s something funny and unbelievably pathetic about people patting themselves on the back just for knowing how to read.

Congratulations! You, too, have mastered a task that 99% percent of people in this country pass!

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I wonder if you actually read it?

I kid! I kid! The OP’s formatting sucks, I know that for sure.

I’m not sure what the origin of “sucks” is. Even if it comes from “sucks crap off Beavis’s bunghole,” though, Walloon’s snark is nonsensical.

Preach it. I wouldn’t’ve bothered either, except that I couldn’t explain myself in Cafe Society. I was a little worried that my initial comment there was over the line–but if it was, I figure his implication that the OP was illiterate was much farther over.

Daniel

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Thanks, Skipmagic, for editing my sucktactic formatitude.

Daniel

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Sucks probably did originally refer to rotten eggs or pond scum or somesuch, but I’m pretty sure the meaning has evolved, e.g. the synonymous “blows”, or emphasizers such as “hairy gorilla balls”.

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All kidding aside, I wouldn’t necessarily argue that using the word “sucks” is the best way to express oneself, but I think the vulgarity the older generation (like my parents…in their 70s), associates with it has pretty much been washed out of it. I have not censored that particular word out of my vocabulary at home, as I have done with other worlds (my 2-year-old dropped something a couple months ago and said “oh cwap!” knew it was time to start being a little more careful…)

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Sucks to your as-mar!

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Those of us in the intellectual elite know that the correct form is “Verily, that sucketh.”

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I hear Fox News is using that as their slogan now.

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Yea, it sucketh mightily, and with great fervor.