Remember way back when, when "boner" meant "mistake"?

[Dave Reynolds]

I must be old or something...

[SeattleGirl]

1. Then I guess I'm old too

Because I remember when it meant "mistake". :cry:

[Dave Reynolds]

8. You are not a day over 27,

someone must have told you about the old meaning.;-)

[Fox Mulder]

2. ...

:wtf:

Seriously???

[Dave Reynolds]

9. Yep,

there used to be advertisements for blooper albums (vinyl) that said "listen to these classic boners."

[CarpeDiebold]

3. how'd 'mistake' turn into the nasty jim?

:shrug:

[SeattleGirl]

4. Who knows? How did "gay" go from meaning happy

to meaning "homosexual"???

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Not only that, but

when you made a mistake, you "pulled a boner."



We are evolving. :7

[Dave Reynolds]

11. And now, pulling a boner

in public will get you on a sex offender's list.

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. Especially if it isn't yours

:evilgrin:

[JVS]

6. Did people ever make raging monster mistakes?

[Fox Mulder]

7. Question...

the guy who played Kirk Cameron's friend (Boner) on the show "Growing Pains", was he named after a mistake or after something else?

[Dave Reynolds]

10. That may be a coin toss,

but since it was on a wholesome network, it must have been a mistake.

[RevCheesehead]

12. Yeah.

When my parents moved, I found an old book called "Book of Boners."

I was so disappointed that it wasn't illustrated. :(

[Dave Reynolds]

15. I think I have just been given a new literary idea.

A "coffee table book", so to speak.

[RevCheesehead]

17. ROFLOL

:rofl:

Well, Madonna did it - why not you?? :evilgrin:

[HuskerDU]

13. 'Merkle's boner' vaulted the Cubs to the 1908 World Series.

And they haven't won one since!

[Dave Reynolds]

19. And he was able to use it

instead of a bat?

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. And he was referred to ever after

as "Bonehead Merkle."

If you research that, though, you find Merkle wasn't really at fault. Rather, it was the quick thinking of Cubs' second baseman Johnny Evers that "cost" the Giants the pennant. Merkle only did what all runners did in thinking the game was over when the winning run scored and subsequently not bothering to touch second base.

Still, from the Wikipedia entry on baseball jargon:

bonehead play or just "boner"
A mental mistake that changes the course of a game dramatically. See "Merkle boner".

[swag]

14. Quite often, it still does.

[southlandshari]

16. .....

:spray:



:D

[Dave Reynolds]

18. ROFL...

Oh yeah...

[alittlelark]

20. I remember the time, and I remenber the change.

It was (for me) when a HS friend explained to me what the definition of a 'boner' was...... circa 1981 or something.

[Hardrada]

22. Or "jock" was someone from Bonnie Scotland!

You tak the low road an' I'll tak the high road....

[CanuckAmok]

23. you mean like this?

[britpopper]

24. Wow...Impressive

That is some good research...and entertaining...and yet mildly stimulating...

[hfojvt]

25. I am not sure what the difference is

usually when a boner happened it was a "foolish and obvious blunder" certainly not something that had any practical purpose.

[aclog]

27. Well there's the obvious tie-in

Boners do tend to lead to mistakes 9 months later after all...