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This one had me rolling
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Stone Angel
First Post
HAHAHA this is tooo funny.
Boner of the year. lol
The Seraph of Earth and Stone
Boner of the year. lol
The Seraph of Earth and Stone
der_kluge
Adventurer
I guess I don't get it. Does boner have some other meaning of which I am not aware?
edit: let me rephrase that. I *know* what a boner is in the pre-pubescent boy, haha sense, but assuming these were legitimate comic panels, it must have something other meaning. Joke, or gag, or prank, perhaps?
edit: let me rephrase that. I *know* what a boner is in the pre-pubescent boy, haha sense, but assuming these were legitimate comic panels, it must have something other meaning. Joke, or gag, or prank, perhaps?
Pbartender
First Post
die_kluge said:
Webster says, "2 : a humorous and ridiculous blunder"
Desdichado
Hero
Right, before the word got coopted into meaning 'erection', pulling a boner was making a stupid mistake.
Mystery Man
First Post
Yes, now using "boner" to refer to a embarrasing mistake is a major boner. 
Henry
Autoexreginated
THe funny thing is, I read this comic in a Batman Anthology in my pre-teens, and I knew the term as "mistake" LONG before I heard it in the "pre-pubescent" sense.
I dunno, It's kinda like someone laughing incessantly at an old gangster movie where the gangsters keep calling the detectives "private Dicks." (For Dick Tracy) :\
And that's all I'll say about it.
I dunno, It's kinda like someone laughing incessantly at an old gangster movie where the gangsters keep calling the detectives "private Dicks." (For Dick Tracy) :\
And that's all I'll say about it.
tarchon
First Post
Yeah, mid-century slang, bonehead mistake. Used a lot with bad plays in sports.
I'd guess the writer of the strip probably was familiar with the other sense of the word, but perhaps the editor wasn't. Post-code comic book writers often took advantage of the "ambiguously gay duo" effect to slip in funny off-color innuendos under a pretense of innocence. The nice thing about puritanical censors is that they often don't know a lot of slang usages and tend to be oblivious to double entendres, so you can slip a lot past them if you're clever about it. If you get caught, well, obviously, you just don't have the kind of dirty mind that picks up on such things.
I'd guess the writer of the strip probably was familiar with the other sense of the word, but perhaps the editor wasn't. Post-code comic book writers often took advantage of the "ambiguously gay duo" effect to slip in funny off-color innuendos under a pretense of innocence. The nice thing about puritanical censors is that they often don't know a lot of slang usages and tend to be oblivious to double entendres, so you can slip a lot past them if you're clever about it. If you get caught, well, obviously, you just don't have the kind of dirty mind that picks up on such things.
