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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread fug #186412 08/11/2009 2:56 PM Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 1 ajl stranger ajl stranger Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 1 That is awesome... my first encounter with the word was Norman Mailer's brutal use as a substitute for what wouldn't be printed! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: fug ajl #186415 08/11/2009 4:19 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA dalehileman Pooh-Bah dalehileman Pooh-Bah Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA Welcome ajl I agree, I had quite the same reaction Though I suppose you ought to be careful how you use it dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: fug dalehileman #186417 08/11/2009 4:57 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,974 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,974 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water Better than the word used on Battlestar Galactica, even. Fug, neat! ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: fug LukeJavan8 #186433 08/12/2009 1:21 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh The word always makes me smile and think of the Fugs (Kupferberg and Sanders) and that (seemingly apocryphal) story about Ms Bankhead (I always heard it was Dorothy Parker) and Mailer at a party: Quote: "...The word has been a source of great embarrassment to me over the years because, you know, Tallulah Bankhead's press agent, many years ago, got a story in the papers which went...'Oh, hello, you're Norman Mailer,' said Tallulah Bankhead allegedly, 'You're the young man that doesn't know how to spell...' You know, the four-letter word was indicated with all sorts of asterisks... I thought she [Bankhead] should have hired a publicity man who had a better sense of fair play." (1968 Panel Discussion, CBLT-TV, Toronto, moderated by Robert Fulford) From "Conversations with Norman Mailer", 1988. Edited by J. Michael Lennon. (link) Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: fug zmjezhd #186439 08/12/2009 6:19 PM Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 3 timbabwe stranger timbabwe stranger Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 3 The Fugs named themselves after Mailer's euphemism. After the sixties, Sanders wrote the first book on Charles Manson and continued as an unreconstructed Beat poet; Tuli Kupferberg assembled "As They Were", a post-modern album of baby pictures of prominent people; and, of the most interest to this list, the drummer and lexicographer Ken Weaver compiled "Texas Crude", an earthy collection of Texas slang, profusely illustrated by R. Crumb. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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