| Subject: Re: BOINC is slang for the F-word |
| From: Robin Laing |
| Date: 28/06/2004, 20:06 |
Martin 53N 1W wrote:
Robin Laing wrote:
Peter Hickman wrote:
[...]
No the work they used was BONK!
I have heard the term Boink used by British for years for fucking.
<http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boink&b=1>
I think it is derived from bonk and is more of an adjective. I want
to bonk her. I am going to boink him. I cannot find any real history.
No way Maaaan!!!
You obviously ain't from round these parts!
Bonk yes, and all the variations around that.
Sorry, "boink" is a corrupted figment of some imagination. That spelling
isn't used here sexually. That and similar spellings might be used for
describing the sound a cartoon character might make when
rebounding/springing off a hard surface.
Now... How do you lot spell colour? Or is it a corruption of [dog,
shirt] collar?
And get your topsy-turvy dates sorted into some logical order!
Hint:
date -R
I wonder what Boinc might mean in various other languages?...
Cheers,
Martin
I didn't say I was from England. I worked with British soldiers for
many years and I heard the term used by them. Now with some of the
dialects, it may have been bonk but sounded like boink. The link I
provided was a defention of boink.
We spell color, colour. Of course with our poximity to the US we can
use either color or colour and still be right.
Haven't been to England since 1993. Spent over three months there in
1986.
Date formats are an issue of contention with me. I have seen
YYYY-MM-DD, DD/MM/YY and MM/DD/YY on the same form. Now this is
confusing. I prefer the ISO format of YYYY-MM-DD personally.
date --iso-8601
Cheers and have a good day mate.