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Storm Saxon
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[Smile]
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You know those really weird looking lumps on the top of a monkeys head...

Or it could just be a shameless bump of a thread.

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It's like the chicken pox, only a lot hairier.
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Ralphie
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Good gravy - weren't you properly tortured as a child?

A monkey bump is when you use your middle knuckle and "bump" it resoundly against the extremely sensitive tendon that runs along the outer edge of your upper thigh.

It hurts like a MoFo.

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Storm Saxon
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Ouch.

I had a big kid sit on top of me and hold me down for about an eternity while he lightly rapped on my breastbone. If you've never had it done, let me tell you that about one minute into it, it's probably one of the worst pains you'll ever experience. [Frown]

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In some parts of the country, that is known as "frogging" someone. It can also be done to the arm.
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Ralphie
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Don't I know it!

Stormy - I had variations of Chinese Water Torture performed on me. And Slash is a surprisingly dedicated torture artist.

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zgator, frogging someone is completely different from what I am talking about, at least when I grew up. Frogging when I grew up was used in the 'BB' game, or just in passing. That is, you hit someone very hard, once, in the arm.

What I'm talking about is on virtually naked bone, doesn't hurt at first, and is done over time.

Also, speaking as the oldest sibling, and therefore the one who tortured, let me say that I suffer the worst pangs of guilt about how mean I was to my brothers. I suspect that if Slash hasn't already said so, he probably feels the same way.

Then again, judging from your sauciness on Hatrack, you probably needed it, so maybe not. [Wink]

[ September 09, 2003, 01:55 PM: Message edited by: Storm Saxon ]

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Ralphie
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Oh, that's it. I demand your AIM nick.

We shall discuss this mano y mano.

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Storm Saxon
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I seriously have to go, but I'll put it in my profile now that I have Trillian.
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SS, I was talking about what Ralphie refers to as monkey bumps, not yours. When you frogged someone, you did extend the middle knuckle, didn't you?
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Actually, I found a much better frog could be produced with the knuckle. [Evil]
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What about Bumpy Monks?
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[No No]
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Some people are so violent!

[Frown]

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Yes. Yes we are. You better be careful around us!
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This is called "noogies" in my husband's family. My family wasn't touchy feely enough for that sort of thing. If you touched someone, you were engaged for full on death match.
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Wow, that's a very different kind of noogie than what I'm used to. Where I come from, a noogie is the rapid and forceful rubbing of knuckles back and forth across a person's scalp.
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I want to know what is being expressed by monkey bumps? Is it a dominance marker? Does it serve to express affection in a way that affection-impaired people can manage? In what way is it superior to a hug or pat? Is the pain suffered by the recipient an important part of the message or can "ritual" monkey bumps, which have the outward form only and don't inflict actual pain serve as well? I find this behavior incomprehensible, and would like to understand it better.
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Ralphie
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pooka - That's crazy. Noogies are clearly when you rub the top of someone's head vigorously with your knuckles, not bump the side of the leg.

Anne Kate - Dominance, pain, precision training - these are all integral parts of the Monkey Bump.

So I hear. I don't really know, I just receive 'em.

(j/k [Wink] )

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Good to see I'm not alone in my noogie definition.

Although I think this whole j/k [Smile] thing is getting WAY out of hand.

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Ralphie
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Do not speak against what you do not know, padiwan.

(j/k [Wink] )

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Mmm... bully techniques. I loved it when I hit 6'4 (that being 193cm for all you metric fans out there.) Nobody f---ed with my anymore.

Charlie Horses, Swirlies or Pink Bellies anyone?

[ September 24, 2003, 01:38 PM: Message edited by: Primal Curve ]

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katharina
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Primal Curve, in keeping with the recent spirit of the forum, placing a few dashes in place of letters doesn't actually mean you're not really swearing. Is there another word you could use?
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Then of course there is what we called the "rubber noogie". This involved running your fingers (open hand) rapidly across the victim's ear, flipping it back and forth.

Doesn't really hurt at first, but can become extremely irritating.

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No, because I know that I'm swearing.
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quote:
Do not speak against what you do not know, padiwan.
Hey, if that's the way you want it, kiddo.
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Maybe the people reading don't want to know. Please?
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Ah, the hazards of scanning. I kind of had T's description in my head as I was reading yours. Though interestingly, the iliotibial band (on the outside of the thigh) contains an accupuncture point for the gall bladder. So if it's tender that could be problematic. Of course, you were a kid then.

Yes, noogies seem like they would intend to involve the scalp if a recipient could be captured. Come to think of it, I haven't actually witnessed noogies.

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quote:
in keeping with the recent spirit of the forum
Seeing the fact that I have no idea what this refers to and the fact that I feel my self-censorship is enough, I don't really want to remove it.
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kat, this will probably come as a shock that I was once an AOL community leader, trained in all ways of curbing youthful exuberance. Primal could mean "fooled". Of course, it's unusual to euphemize "fooled" but "fool" is sternly warned against in the New Testament. [Wink]
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And THAT is why people don't bother with warnings and blow the whistle. Some people don't care if they are offending someone.
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But, Kat - You pointed it out. You asked him to remove it.

I think we were referring to blowing the whistle without taking any of those measures. I've had people blow the whistle on me and had NO CLUE until after the fact.

It's not the whistle blowing, it's the preemptive whistle blowing that I find obnoxious.

Glynn, be a pal and edit it, will you?

(j/k [Wink] )

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So we can't even cuss with dashes in the middle of the word?! Well, da- darn it!
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-Jexxster pretends, in vain, that the whole censoring discussion in this thread never occured and continues to think of ways to torture younger siblings-

And, of course, we cannot forget the venerable mule bite. Around these here parts that involved using the knuckles of the index and middle fingers to pinch skin and then pull off rapidly. These often left behind nice big bruises. Favorite spots for those were the back of the upper arm and the inner thigh near the knee.

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RRR - The f-bomb is a far cry from "damn" for most people.

(j/k [Wink] )

[ September 24, 2003, 09:15 PM: Message edited by: Ralphie ]

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I'm glad I had a nice older brother and was never physically tortured. Physically tortured.
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I was going to edit my post, but then I realized that Ralphie was just kidding. [Razz]
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If you could please edit your post, Ralphie...we all know what f-bomb stands for.
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Kat, what would blowing the whistle accomplish here? Do you think the mods would delete the hyphened-out expletive? Or ask Primal to change it?

What I got from that thread was not that phony versions of swear words are equivalent to the real thing, but that blowing the whistle on them is . . . a bit much?

(j/k [Smile] )

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Eddie, you forgot to add: (j/k [Smile] )
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Once again, I feel compelled to ask what the difference between Primal's use of the f-word with dashes and Patrick's use of frickin is. Also, merely discussing the f-word is the same thing, for that matter, isn't it?

[ September 24, 2003, 09:36 PM: Message edited by: Kayla ]

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Personally, I don't find any of the three offensive.

Which may mean that I'm not qualified to offer an opinion on how people who are offended should proceed.

But when has that stopped me? (j/k [Smile] )

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When I see "f---ing" my mind immediately translates it into the f-word. When I see frickin', my mind thinks "frickin'."

It's an associative thing - not all euphemisms translate mentally to the words they are taming, whereas the "fill in the blanks" game is intended SPECIFICALLY for that, but to 'get away with it'.

If, in your mind, you automatically translated "frickin'" into the f-bomb, then yes: it's just as bad. If your mind simply reads frickin' and goes on, then it's not the same thing at all.

And if you don't find the f-bomb offensive in the least, then none of it matters.

I wonder how many people mentally translate the euphemisms into the words they are taming? Is that why some feel euphemisms are offensive, while others see them as no problem?

(You are ALL forgetting "j/k [Wink] ")

(j/k [Wink] )

[ September 24, 2003, 09:44 PM: Message edited by: Ralphie ]

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But but but... "nobody 'fricked' with me" sounds so pathetic!
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anyhow it's much better than making up a more descriptive and colorful phrase as a replacement. Which is what we'd have to do, of course.

(kidding. [Wink] )

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If, in your mind, you automatically translated "frickin'" into the f-bomb, then yes: it's just as bad.
i don't agree with this. "frickin'" is not the same word as the "f-bomb." if you you replace the word "chicken" with "poultry" everytime i say it, it doesn't mean i said "poultry." but i don't really understand how a word can be considered bad in the first place, so i'm probably not making the best argument. okay, a better example...if someone says "oh my gosh" because they don't want to take god's name in vain, does that mean that they just said "oh my god," when they were specifically saying the former not to say the latter? i hope this is a coherent argument.
oh, and....
(j/k [Wink] )

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Icky - of course I didn't blow the whistle. I don't do that when people swear. I think I've reported a post exactly four times in three years of Hatrack, which is, I believe, about average for regulars.

*points to Ralphie's post* What she said, though. A replacement word replaces the sound - blanks just fill in the meaning.

Primey KNEW that - that's why the blanks have a different connotation that "frick". Frick sounds weenie, but the blanks are fully as effective as the word he was trying to invoke.

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It hurts like a MoFo.
Would someone please inform me what a MoFo is? I have a suspicion that I ought to be offended.
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If I were you, Tristan, I'd blow the whistle.

Like a MoFo.

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