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A few years ago I tried to settle a word usage debate with a roommate by asking friends what they thought, but didn't have the occasion to ask that many friends and so never came to any definite conclusion. It's only just occurred to me that I now have available a much more efficient way of gathering opinions. Not that I'll ever be able to wave this in my ex-roommate's face as we don't seem to talk any more (this appears to have something to do with the fact that he owes me money, but we won't get into how I feel about that), but 'twill be useful for my own edification.

So, without further ado:

[Poll #442526]

Edit: Disregard the fact that it can also refer to a rooster or the angle of one's hat. Or a dildo. I'm just looking for penis-related applications here.

Date: 2005-02-23 01:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] adamchristopher.livejournal.com
No "any rooster" option?

Date: 2005-02-23 08:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] haggis-bagpipes.livejournal.com
Damn! You beat me to it as well! Well it was a damn obvious joke.

Date: 2005-02-23 01:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkforge.livejournal.com
I selected "any penis" above. This is because "limp cock" isn't any kind of an oxymoron... it's not even confusing. (Compare "limp boner" or "flaccid erection", which are at least disorienting, if not oxymoronic in their own right.)

Date: 2005-02-23 01:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] terpsichoros.livejournal.com
I think that the appropriateness of applying the word "cock" to flaccid penises depends on the circumstances, and is also subject to dialectical variation - in some places I suspect, the word "cock" refers to any penis.

My own usage, and that I've noticed around me, tends to limit "cock" to sexual contexts, though I suppose that if the discussion is of a sexual encounter where the penis in question was flaccid for some part of the encounter, it might still be properly referred to as a cock.

Date: 2005-02-23 01:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fyfer.livejournal.com
Not that I'll ever be able to wave this in my ex-roommate's face

*snort* That's because you don't have one!

(Ok, sorry, tasteless and stupid but I couldn't resist.)

I went there too...

Date: 2005-02-23 01:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpurple.livejournal.com
I was just giggling over finding the phrase Not that I'll ever be able to wave this in my ex-roommate's face in a posting about cocks...

V, you left off the rooster option and also the jaunty tilt of a hat!

Re: I went there too...

Date: 2005-02-23 02:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com
Gah. With friends like you people....

*edits post*

Date: 2005-02-23 01:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bdot.livejournal.com
my first thought was rooster....

:-)

Date: 2005-02-23 08:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] haggis-bagpipes.livejournal.com
You beat me to it! Damn you!

Date: 2005-02-23 01:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com
In some sexual contexts, it also applies to a dildo.

Date: 2005-02-23 02:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com
Mmm, good point. I suspect that doesn't significantly alter the question at hand, though.

Date: 2005-02-23 02:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] terpsichoros.livejournal.com
Would you, in a not-very-sexual context, refer to one of those non-erect dildos as a cock?

Date: 2005-02-23 06:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zwol.livejournal.com
Sure. Q.v. "... he grabbed the nearest thing to hand, which as it happened was a 15-inch rubber cock, and proceeded to beat poor old Smithy to death with it."

Line of dialogue from Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.

Date: 2005-02-23 06:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com
So that's what it takes to get you to comment. *smirk*

Date: 2005-02-23 07:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zwol.livejournal.com
Tar-Baby, he don't say nothin'.

Date: 2005-02-23 07:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com
*is alarmed to discover her boyfriend is petroleum-based*

Date: 2005-02-23 07:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zwol.livejournal.com
100% biologically synthesized macromolecules, baybee.

Date: 2005-02-23 07:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zwol.livejournal.com
I have to correct that - it's only 99.9% or so. Forgot the tooth fillings.

Date: 2005-03-03 11:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] januslazarus.livejournal.com
Damn, you have a lot of tooth fillings.

Date: 2005-03-04 06:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com
Gasp. And I thought [livejournal.com profile] zwol was crawling out of the woodwork.

Date: 2005-03-08 03:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] januslazarus.livejournal.com
I'm still fully submerged in the well of woodwork, just sometimes manage to affect the outside world through quantum tunneling.

Date: 2005-03-08 09:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com
Powerful force, that.

Date: 2005-02-23 03:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marmaladious.livejournal.com
I said number 3. I'm glad you gave me that option. It's got a real stiff sound, like flicking something stiff. *cock* Yeah, they're cool.:D

Date: 2005-02-23 08:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] haggis-bagpipes.livejournal.com
Doesn't the word 'cock' primarily apply to a male chicken?

Date: 2005-02-23 08:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] haggis-bagpipes.livejournal.com
Damn! You even had a thingy which is a subtext which makes the joke! Damn!

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