Masturbation may not cause blindness, but ...

[fflo]

... Viagra may!

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Re: "to grunt"

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Hello, Patti. My family of origin did indeed use that expression! That side was from Kansas, via Hannibal, MO, via Parkersburg, West Virginia---with a line going back "to the boat"---they came from England before that, mostly.

Thanks for letting me know about your husband's family's use of it. I sure have found few people who had that experience. What was so weird about that being the term was when I heard it later in the conventional sense & associated it with that very, uh, private thing.

RE: Re: "to grunt"

[isneezedagain.livejournal.com]

OK, so I'm answering a post from 2005, 13 years ago, on the off chance that one of you will actually see it. Until now I thought I was the only one whose mother called it "grunting". Demographics - she was born in Virginia in 1917, her mother was from Alabama, and we lived just outside of St. Louis. She also called urinating "going wee wee".

RE: Re: "to grunt"

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Hello! Just catching up now, hunh? :) I'm still here. Lj-diehard, I guess.

Yeah, it seems a rarity. I've heard of only a few of us. I suppose mass media make family-anomaly euphemisms like this less likely to survive and be passed on now. BTW, in our family to urinate was to "wet"!