# You're smart people, and I bet most of you DO it, so why in hell can't you spell it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 8, 2000, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-smart-people-and-i-bet-most-of-you-do-it-so-why-in-hell-cant-you-spell-it/44681 "2000-12-08T20:20:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ronald33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@ronald33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ronald33)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-smart-people-and-i-bet-most-of-you-do-it-so-why-in-hell-cant-you-spell-it/44681/81 "2005-09-28T03:30:40Z")
Let’s see…think this word derives from the phrase _masturbari_ . As in (Gloria Trevi’s) “more disturbed than usual” (LOL!) I wrote a copyrighted story called GUITAR FETISH and I learned a ritual whereby I placed an old-style plastic ukulele between my legs, and got down with it until I climaxed! (Especially if loud, orgasmic steel guitar music were playing in the background!) This has something to do with Hawaiian eroticism… ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-smart-people-and-i-bet-most-of-you-do-it-so-why-in-hell-cant-you-spell-it/44681/82 "2005-09-28T04:03:56Z")
Zombie masturbation threads just dry wrong. Yuck. Oh, and welcome to the Straight Dope Message Board, **ronald33** , but we really discourage zombie threads from even a few months old. This one, of course, was from over 4 years ago. I’m going to close it down, but you’re welcome to start a new thread with a link to this one if you’d like. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-smart-people-and-i-bet-most-of-you-do-it-so-why-in-hell-cant-you-spell-it/44681.md?page=4)