"The monks are not in heaven because they fuck the wives of Ely."

undeterred

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Wed May-27-09 03:42 PM
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"The monks are not in heaven because they fuck the wives of Ely."

Edited on Wed May-27-09 03:50 PM by undeterred

fuck

a difficult word to trace, in part because it was taboo to the editors of the original OED when the "F" volume was compiled, 1893-97. Written form only attested from early 16c. OED 2nd edition cites 1503, in the form fukkit; earliest appearance of current spelling is 1535 -- "Bischops ... may fuck thair fill and be vnmaryit" , but presumably it is a much more ancient word than that, simply one that wasn't likely to be written in the kind of texts that have survived from O.E. and M.E. Buck cites proper name John le Fucker from 1278. The word apparently is hinted at in a scurrilous 15c. poem, titled "Flen flyys," written in bastard L. and M.E. The relevant line reads:
Non sunt in celi
quia fuccant uuiuys of heli

"They are not in heaven because they fuck the wives of Ely." Fuccant is pseudo-L., and in the original it is written in cipher.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=fuck&searchmode=none

Etymologies can be pretty interesting. I wonder what happended to those other texts.

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undeterred

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Wed May-27-09 08:35 PM
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1. And just why are the wives of Ely a taboo subject here in the Lounge?

:shrug:

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Adsos Letter

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Wed May-27-09 10:30 PM
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2. Who is Ely? And how any wives did he have? And did the Bishops get to fuck all of them...

or only certain ones?

Damn History: asks more questions than it answers...

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old mark

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Thu May-28-09 05:47 AM
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3. " But Ely, honey, it didn't MEAN anything...." nt

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