Thou sucketh donkey member.
You suck from the very teat of mediocrity, dude!
The first time I said that something “sucked” in front of my mother (a Baby Boomer) she looked terribly shocked and told me I was never to use language like ever again. I swear, she nearly smacked me!
But, then time moved on.
Nowadays, she’s all like “This sucks!” and “That sucks!” It makes me smile bit every time she says it. I’ve asked her if she remembers the time she nearly slapped me for using that word, and she denies ever having freaked out about it. 
It’s almost a relief to me to see Walloon do something that might be – maybe – just a little imperfect.
I enjoy her (I’m not ready to concede on gender) enormously and find her to be a fascinating source of information! Very much a Mystery Doper…
It’s not the most elegant of terms, but some books do indeed suck. Plus it fits better in a thread title than “The moment you realized that a book plumbs the depths of utterly incompetent banality.”
And as I mentioned in the linked thread, if Shakespeare can make a pun on the word “cunt” we can be excused an unconfirmed reference to fellatio.
How do you call the drinking through a straw in English?
I’m serious, I do not know. I always thought it was “He sucks [his lemonade]”
Wrong, huh. ?
It’s the use of the word as a general insult that Walloon was criticising. What a Gent.
Hehehehehe
Of course, to get the true effect, you need to see it in Illuminated form, complete with drawings of Kings and Knights and Wise Men in the margins and so on.
However, you’d need to own a copy of the 1427 edition of the “Booke Of Pithy Insultes, Withe Commentarie And Guide To Recognisinge Insultes Of Foreigne Landes” to do this… 
“He sucks his lemonade” would probably be considered a creative insult, a suggested theme for bizarre pornography, or both. Just use “drink”, and if you need to specify that he used a straw, say “with a straw” at the end.
“He drinks his lemonade with a straw”, or “through a straw” maybe.
Well, couldn’t you have linked to it on Amazon.com?
There’s a copy in the Yale library, but the Dover edition has been out of print for several years.
There’s the Cambridge edition- which I believe was largely taken from the Leeds Codex- but the definitive version has to be the Hampton Court Manuscript, which Henry VIII apparently kept for use with diplomats, courtiers, wives, and anyone else who displeased him. Shakespeare is known to have thumbed through it at one point, too…
The earliest usage I know of is in this extract from Chaucer’s The Swagman’s Tale:
Do people who use the term “sucktactic” actually read books? Dude, it’s “sucktastic”. :rolleyes: 
The shitteth hath hitteth the fan-eth.
/10 Things I Hate About You
Only when you’re not talking about syntactic errors, fool!
Daniel
[sub]desperately rationalizing[/sub]
suck tactic
a. choice of vacuum attachment, tailored to the terrain and species of mess to clean up
b. motion used to ingest the rivers of liquid on a tabletop after a spill
c. Usu. considered obscene strategy used when administering oral pleasure
She’s gone from suck to blow!
He may not say it, perhaps he eats it?
I told her the same thing…and got slapped!
Go figure 