Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:33:58 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > Perhaps Steven could tell you about a lovely Australian meaning for > > the word “date”. > > This is a family list, so perhaps I shouldn't. :) > > In Australia slang, "date" is short for "date hole", which is the part > of the anatomy which is also known as "the [one] brown eye". In parts > of the US, it is also known as the "corn hole", and in Cockney rhyming > slang it is a jam role. > > I trust I don't need to be any more explicit...
I think the reason “date” was initially used is because dates are most familiar to us as fleshy, dark brown, wrinkled, compressed points. My interests in etymology and scatology unite here. -- \ “In the long run, the utility of all non-Free software | `\ approaches zero. All non-Free software is a dead end.” —Mark | _o__) Pilgrim, 2006 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
