Midnight_Scarlet_Angel wrote:do you know where "Fuck" comes from?

turn of the century legal term, a acronim (sp/)
F. for
U. unlawful
C. carnal
K. knowlege

cool, huh? another bit of trivia that I can't use in "polite company"

The acronym FUCK is actually much older then that. In medieval days it stood for Fonication Under Concent of King. Meaning the King had given his concent to the union of a man and a woman and had given his concent to allow it to be concimated.

Spam wrote:

Midnight_Scarlet_Angel wrote:do you know where "Fuck" comes from?

turn of the century legal term, a acronim (sp/)
F. for
U. unlawful
C. carnal
K. knowlege

cool, huh? another bit of trivia that I can't use in "polite company"

The acronym FUCK is actually much older then that. In medieval days it stood for Fonication Under Concent of King. Meaning the King had given his concent to the union of a man and a woman and had given his concent to allow it to be concimated.

yep...we talked about that in western civ. several years back. of course, we were also told the ancedote of the "plucking yeomen" and the oh-so popular universal sign associated with the phrase
"fuck you"