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[shanafan]

Yeah, I agree

Fuck

[KazuyaWaruasobi]

Yeah. . .that's a good word. Fits many aspects of my life right now too. . . .I need a fuck. . .I'm fucked. . .fuck this, fuck that. Questions is: how many of you know the true origin of the word?
FUCK=Fornicating Under Consent of the King. Medieval England had a fornications law to control the population, so a married couple would have to petition the king for the right to FUCK, and if permission was granted they were given a placard that said FUCK, and they had to hang it on their door when they were FUCKing.

[cykiller]

probrably this is y they needed the FUCKcard so they can FUCK under king's permission.

[methadone_pretty]

QUOTE (KazuyaWaruasobi @ Dec 29 2002, 06:48 AM)

FUCK=Fornicating Under Consent of the King. Medieval England had a fornications law to control the population, so a married couple would have to petition the king for the right to FUCK, and if permission was granted they were given a placard that said FUCK, and they had to hang it on their door when they were FUCKing.

what the fuck?
read..

Although this sounds like the most Anglo-Saxon of all Anglo-Saxon words, the origin of the f-word meaning 'sexual intercourse' is actually rather obscure. There is a legend that the old name for the crime of rape was 'Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge', and part of the punishment was that an abbreviation of the crime would be branded on the perpetrators head. Hence, people with 'F. U. C. K.' on their head were known to be rapists. A similar story is that during the time of the plague when it was necessary to increase the population a royal injunction was issued telling the common folk to 'Fornicate Under Command of the King.' These, however, would appear to be acronyms intentionally spelling out an existing word rather than new creations themselves.

Eric Partridge, a famous etymologist, has suggested that the Old German 'ficken' or 'fucken', meaning 'to strike or penetrate', was related to the Latin words for pugilist, puncture, and prick, or to the Latin 'futuere' which had the slang meaning 'to copulate'. There are also clearer links to Dutch where 'fokken' means breed and is applied to cattle, and to a Swedish dialect word 'fokken' which has the English meaning. Certainly, all the earliest uses of the word in English came via Scotland, suggesting a Scandinavian origin4.

Records from as early as 1278 identify a man called John Le-Fucker (which, considering people often had names to do with their occupations, makes the mind boggle), and it was certainly in common usage by the 16th Century, appearing in a dictionary, John Florio's A World of Words, in 1598. By the 18th century, it had became a vulgar term; It was even banned from the Oxford English Dictionary.

DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover (written in 1928) was the first serious (ie non-pornographic) book in English to use the word accurately and in context and was famously banned for over thirty years. In 1960, US publishers Grove Press won a court case permitting it to publish the book in America, meaning it was the first time the word had been legally used in print, while three years later, the ban was overturned in a British court in the infamous 'Lady Chatterly trial'. American author Norman Mailer used the euphemism 'fug' in The Naked and the Dead, and when famous wit Dorothy Parker met him at a party, she said, 'So you're the young man who can't spell f***?'

It has been recognised as one of the most versatile words in the English language, and can be put to use as an expletive, an adjective, a noun or a verb, as demonstrated in an email circular that has been widely distributed over the years.

Poet Laureate Philip Larkin used the word in the opening lines of one of his poems, writing one of those sentences which is simple, lucid and which cannot possibly be expressed in any other way:

'They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad,
They may not mean to, but they do'
Kenneth Tynan the enfant terrible of mid 20th century British cultural criticism was the first person to use the word on British TV, on the BBC no less, during a live discussion programme, sparking a major and significant debate in the British press. Everyone could see what the articles were about, their eyes were drawn by the asterisks.

The word is often shortened by Brits to just 'Eff', as in the phrase 'effing an blinding' to describe someone who swears a lot. ('Blinding' probably refers to an archaic usage 'God Blind Me' still heard in 'Cor Blimey').

The F of the f-word also appears in various quasi-military acronyms most of which can be traced back to and may even have been spawned by the second world war. There is 'FUBBED up' - 'F****d Up Beyond Belief'; FUBAR - 'F****d Up Beyond All Recognition'; FUNDY - 'F****d Up, Not Dead Yet' - as used on the notes of patients in hospitals who were, well... FUNDY. There is also: 'NFW' - 'No F***ing Way'; and 'SNAFU - 'Situation Normal, All F****d Up'. This last one is reputed to be the origin of 'naff', which was popularised in Britain in the 1970s programme Porridge, and reportedly used by Princess Anne5. In recent years, it has also come into gay parlance to disparagingly refer to heterosexuals - standing for 'not a f***ing fairy'.

In 1999, Conservative Future - the youth wing of the Conservative Party - started using the logo 'CFUK'. Sadly, this got them into trouble with the clothing company French Connection UK, who had recently rebranded themselves 'fcuk'. It is strange to think that there may be an entire generation who, like Norman Mailer, cannot spell the word.

A phrase that, until recently, was almost exclusively American, is 'mother-f****r'. Despite sounding very Oedipal, this does not have Freudian derivations. The word was apparently coined by African slaves to describe the slave owners who had raped the slave's mothers. Simple as that.

From the Middle English for 'wriggle' or the Old French for 'rub', 'frig' is sometimes used as a euphemism for 'F***', at other times used to mean 'masturbate'; usually only seen as a gerundive (or verbal adjective) 'frigging'. The Sex Pistols did a version of The Good Ship Venus with the chorus 'Frigging in the rigging 'cos there's f*** all else to do'.


(source: http://www.bbc.co.uk...baster/A753527)
there you go, you can feel educated more

[MorfiusX]

OK, this is on topic. Credit to Knuck3ls:

http://www.its.calte...yel/english.htm

[M3_DeL]

I have always found the word to sound quite uneducational when used today!!!!!!

[Scan-C]

QUOTE (MorfiusX @ Dec 29 2002, 07:12 PM)

OK, this is on topic. Credit to Knuck3ls: http://www.its.calte...yel/english.htm

fuck where did you find this fucking movie?
my english is fucking bad but i'll use fuck now more often in the fucking next time

ah well as the movie says: fuck you  

[Zero]

methadone_pretty's post was way to fucking long.

[Hammy]

Fuck all these fucking posts

[rooicity]

who gives a fuck ...

[bagel5009]

La La La La Laaaaaaaaaaa, Ill kick the liveing fuck out of you, you silly, silly fat fuck, ill eat the shit out of you while i give a nice sweet fuck, be nice and jolly and be a fuck-a-holic, fuck to the left fuck to the right, fuck so much till the shit turns white, fuck satna, and rudof too, fuck em all and give em a nice pat too.Ohhhhhhhhhhhh sweet jolly fat fuck where are you i want to fuck you in your yoooooooooooo-hooooooooooooooooooo.

Copyright - Bagel5009

[LumbraX]

   

[xbox_freak!!]

[Fuzzy]

School has started again so i certainly must say

FUCK

[Hammy]