# What are the suggestive sounding phrases in your sport/hobby/profession **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 1, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897 "2006-07-01T23:39:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/21 "2006-07-02T21:07:35Z")
My profession? A Horticulturalist. My Hobby? A Horologist. 'Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/22 "2006-07-02T21:11:15Z")
Off in [thread=7542537]another thread[/thread], **homeskillet** is talking about the ins and outs of double-entry accrual accounting. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/23 "2006-07-02T22:12:36Z")
Commentator Brian Johnson, observing Michael Holding facing a delivery from Peter Willey: _The batsman’s Holding, the bowler’s Willey._ ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/24 "2006-07-02T22:23:09Z")
I’m the anchor on a competitive co-ed tug-of-war team. It’s great to hear your entire team yelling in unison **PULL! PULL! PULL!** Or better yet… giving the pre-competition briefing, I’ve reminded my team to “Grab it firmly. Lean way back and pull as soon as the referee drops his pole.” ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/25 "2006-07-03T01:48:19Z")
A conversation I had with my sister once: _Phone rings._ Me: Hello? Sister: Hey, it’s me. Whatcha doin’? Me: Oh, boning. Sister: _Pause._ What? For the record, I was inserting [cable ties](http://modehistorique.com/elizabethan/homedepot.html) into a corset. Better yet, some people refer to this type of boning as quick’n’dirty. Not to mention cheap. And the giggles we had in jazz band over the alternate fingerings for sax and the tonguing exercises for all instruments. Man, but the trumpet section was great at flutter tonguing! Which reminds me . . . As for music, what’s two feet long, black, and something that young women love to wrap their hands around and put in their mouths? The clarinet, of course! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/26 "2006-07-03T02:29:21Z")
Back when I was a sports editor, I frequently asked my writers if they could give me 12 inches or 13 inches (i.e., column inches, the units that stories are measured in). ---
**Author:** ![MaddyStrut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@MaddyStrut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaddyStrut)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/27 "2006-07-03T03:03:09Z")
I have a trophy that reads: Adult Pleasure Champion. Pleasure is a horseback riding division. It’s usually separtated into juniors (18 and under) and adults (over 18). ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/28 "2006-07-03T03:51:53Z")
As an ornithologist, I have at times seen pairs of Brown Boobies at the beach, Great Tits in the park, and Blue Tits in winter. Once I saw a buffalo with an enormous Oxpecker on him. And then there’s a bird here that is called the Tapaculo, Spanish for “cover your ass.” ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/29 "2006-07-03T04:06:16Z")
At work I frequently write about wetted parts, and vibration tolerance. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/30 "2006-07-03T04:32:52Z")
I know a woman who describes her job as “taking men’s pants off and measuring things.” She’s a theatrical costume designer. Theatre lighting has a few too- you’re always stripping and nutting cable, and if you can’t get your genie in there, you just have to bounce it. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/31 "2006-07-03T04:33:26Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] A lawyer might be inclined to observe that he’d found something interesting in opposing counsel’s briefs… [/QUOTE] …in a case heard before a hung jury. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/32 "2006-07-03T08:24:47Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] I’m I really the first one who’s immature enough to giggle at “tight ends” and “wide receivers”? [/QUOTE] I’m a tester at EA, working on this year’s Madden game. It’s unintentionally hilarious when he says things like, “They really acheived good penetration on that play,” or, “He was looking for a place to go, and all those places were full of guys.” ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/33 "2006-07-03T09:24:22Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] Commentator Brian Johnson, observing Michael Holding facing a delivery from Peter Willey: _The batsman’s Holding, the bowler’s Willey._ [/QUOTE] Vice versa on the names. Amazing how long since that Settlers of Catan reference, and no-one’s mentioned you-know-who. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/34 "2006-07-03T09:56:58Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] Commentator Brian Johnson, observing Michael Holding facing a delivery from Peter Willey: _The batsman’s Holding, the bowler’s Willey._ [/QUOTE] It would be remiss not mention Johnners’ other classic observation: “Botham seems to be having a little trouble getting his leg over” which cracked the commentary box up so badly that they were unable to go on coherently for some minutes… mm ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/35 "2006-07-03T10:53:06Z")
[QUOTE=mamboman] It would be remiss not mention Johnners’ other classic observation: “Botham seems to be having a little trouble getting his leg over” which cracked the commentary box up so badly that they were unable to go on coherently for some minutes… mm [/QUOTE] “Yes, he just couldn’t get his leg over” - Botham was out “hit wicket” after falling off-balance and trying to do a straddle-jump over the stumps. There was once an occasion when the mike went silent at the start of play for an incident unrevealed to the radio audience. They’d been discussing a parents-v-children cricket match at Colin Cowdrey’s son’s school, in which Mrs Penny Cowdrey had played (according to Johnners). In describing her excellent bowling performance, he innocently remarked “Her swingers were quite unplayable”. Typical Johnners double-entendre so far, and unremarkable. But as the first ball was about to be delivered and the mike went live, Bill Frindall slipped a piece of paper in front of him bearing the supplementary question “Would Penny’s swingers have got bounce on a feather-bed?”. Collapse of large-nosed ex-Etonian in much disarray. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/36 "2006-07-03T11:21:00Z")
I always giggle when Americans ‘root’ for someone. US. Root=Cheer, support NZ. Root=Fuck “I root for the All Blacks” would have you painted as the town slut! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/37 "2006-07-03T13:38:01Z")
[QUOTE=Auntbeast] Poker dealer here…Not all are in common usage or encouraged …snip… Not suggestive, but funny, but not catching on Anna Kournikova: A/K, looks good but rarely wins There’s probably more, but I just got off a 12 hour shift and my mind is numb. [/QUOTE] The Gay Waiter: Q/3 (queen with a trey) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/38 "2006-07-03T13:54:33Z")
“I work for IBM global services as a penetration tester,” he said, cockily. ---
**Author:** ![krisolov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krisolov/32/3724_2.png) [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/39 "2006-07-03T13:56:53Z")
I work with, among other things, tower construction. It’s more properly referred to as tower erection. They just write themselves folks! ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897/40 "2006-07-03T16:24:51Z")
Geez, as an electric guitar player, there are so many that they aren’t even very funny anymore. Equipment manufacturers intentionally give their \ units double-entendre names. A few (and these are all items that you “plug” your guitar into, so supply your own jokes): **Swollen Pickle** by Way Huge Electronics **Aural Exciter** by Aphex \*\*Big Muff \*\* by Electro-Harmonix **Big Muff Pi** by Electro-Harmonic **Super Hard On** by Z.Vex 😃 :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-suggestive-sounding-phrases-in-your-sport-hobby-profession/362897.md?page=3)