Tech: bonk ?

Subject: Tech: bonk ?
From: GUEST,Andy Shandy
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 12:08 PM

bonk ? what's all that about then ???

If it's a new experimental system device for mods to have fun with;
you are aware of the UK slang meaning of 'bonk' ???


If it was an offer,
well maybe if I was 30 years younger and had some idea of your gender and contact details ????

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 01:43 PM

Yes I am aware. Thanks for the offer but no thanks.

It really took off as a usage after Boris Becker used it in connection with his paternity suit.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 03:25 PM

spelled as 'boink' in some places, .....but why on earth LOOK for smarmy cultural uses of words which have many other uses? I am 'aware' of a number of UK uses of slang and vernacular which put a slightly naughty twist to phrases, but perhaps if I ignore them, they will go away!

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 03:48 PM

I've never yet needed to know what Americans mean by the word, though I have seen it alluded to in geeky circles in ways that suggest they don't always mean "shag".

So what's the story with the American usage? (I haven't seen it on any control in the Mudcat user interface, which it seems Andy Shand has spotted).

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 04:02 PM

BOINK, said Zebedee

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 04:37 PM

Has the initiating post in this thread gone missing? Otherwise, what's it all about?

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 05:52 PM

We have one regular (or maybe it's a few regulars) noted for half-as(s)king a question, or posting an unintelligible statement with no context or explanation, and expecting discussion.

Perhaps GUEST, A S thought it was a standard protocol here.

The first post is just as it was when the thread appeared, although another thread with nearly identical subtect/title was deleted - unless someone half-a(s)sked "This thread has been deleted" and expected us to discuss that(?).

So far as I've been aware, "to bonk" (v) meant to strike a blow, or "bonk" (n) to the blow itself, usually associated with a blow to the head, and may have originated here around the time when the Three Stooges were considered hilarious comedy, or perhaps before.

I am aware that some have corrupted the usage to suggestive meanings, but that's common for "slang" or "jargon" where most of those who use the terms have no idea what their usual/customary meanings are or were, and ass.ume that any term they only vaguely know must be "dirty." (Listen to a tent full of preteen boys at their first campout for samples of "dirty talk" totally lacking in comprehension or intelligence - but sometimes vaguely funny in spite of it all.)

John

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Bert
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 06:06 PM

Nice when you can get it.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: GUEST,Andy Shandy
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 06:25 PM

Nope, nothin too complicated or sinister behind my opening question.
Wasn't even aware there'd been a similar thread recently.

But the someone[s]on the mudcat exec team, to whom this open question was addessed, does know what & why I asked;
but is so far remaining tight lipped ???
I would presume for either serious top secret security reasons
or sheer sunny weekend daft humoured sillyness...???????????

yeah !!!!!

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: artbrooks
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 07:19 PM

"Bonk" has the same meaning as "hit the wall"...i.e., totally run out of energy. Any (US) cyclist knows the word.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Newport Boy
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 03:46 AM

Correction, Art - any sports cyclist knows the word. I remember it from the 1940s, and heard it used by French cyclists (with an accent) in the 1950s.

Phil

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 03:51 AM

The Science Behind Bonking

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 04:54 AM

Well obviously our transpond friends, and the clean minded members of Mudcat are unaware of the euphemism, "A quick bonk" meaning to engage in what Mike Harding calle 'carnival knowledge' with another person.
Whereas having'Hand shandy' (see Andy Shandy) is normally a solo occupation.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 05:05 AM

Un bonc (sic)

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 05:51 AM

For cyclists, "hunger knock" is the forerunner to the dreaded bonk. Once you get the knock you have to grab some energy food quick. Bonk makes you light-headed, dizzy, very shaky, weak and incredibly thirsty, and it takes some time after eating before it goes away, and you're never quite the same that day.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 08:21 AM

It sounds as if the opening poster chose a pretty appropriate pseudonym.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 09:22 AM

Respect and a raised glass of good rough cider to your perceptive sense of humour McGrath of Harlow

spot on observation..

Just check out the first entries of "GUEST,Andy Shandy" daft short lived posting history......

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 09:33 AM

that'll be


GUEST,Andy Shandy RE: BS: Olympics opening ceremony 28-Jul-12 - 10:21 AM


Name search results seem to be in reverse order
so need to disregard 29-Jul-12 - 05:43 AM & 29-Jul-12 - 03:43 AM
which are the ramblings of a dull minded imposter..???


of course that's if anyone cares enough to be bothered by all this time wasting frivolity !!!???

Gotta respect mudcat mod's for dealing with the additional workload
on hot drunken summer weekends...

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 01:48 PM

British slang seems to go for words like that.

I think Andy Shandy has bonk mixed up with boink.

boink - to have sex with, esp. if one is male
bonk - to hit
plonk - cheap wine
pong - bad smell

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 02:26 PM

Bonk

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 03:14 PM

Bonk with the meaning of sex seems to be English street slang, it has unfortunately spread to Canada.

In the U.S., it is a slang word meaning to hit (1970 first usage found by Lighter); also a term of sports cyclists as noted above in Lighter, Historical Dict. American Slang; Cudden 1979.

It was used with the meaning 'to hit' in England, 1972- "A British Judge jailed a man for bonking his wife with a hammer."

It does not appear in Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Ed. 1996.
It does not appear in OED 1987 supplement, although I think cyclists' usage is older.

If we are lucky, the nasty English usage will go away.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 03:26 PM

It's been around as a euphemism for sex, for at least 50 years that I know of. It's not only used in England, it's also used in Scotland. Is that nasty as well?

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: artbrooks
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 03:58 PM

I would certainly think so! I mean, just think of all those thistles stuck up your unmentionables!

...oh - you meant the word itself? I dunno...

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 04:10 PM

Hmm, is that whit they mean when they say, they felt a prick?

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Megan L
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 04:11 PM

SKELP

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 05:47 PM

..."at least 50 years." 2012-50= c. 1962.
Source?

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 05:11 PM

Of course bonk is knob backwards. Make what you can of that.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 06:07 PM

Yeah, I read about that somewhere in a pullout supplement.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: maeve
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 06:30 PM

http://www.wordreference.com/definition/bonk:

"Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bonk /bɒŋk/ (N. Amer. also boink) informal
▶verb

    1 hit so as to cause a reverberating sound.

    2 have sex.

▶noun

    1 a reverberating sound.

    2 an act of sexual intercourse.

– origin 1930s: imitative."

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 09:16 PM

I need OED post-1987 revision, obviously.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 04:39 AM

(2nd attempt at posting so apologies if it arrives twice)

"origin 1930s: imitative"

I assume that is the origin of the first meaning, imitating the sound if something being hit. A date for the origin of the second meaning is probably not the same. My Shorter Oxford gives it as L20 - i.e. late twentieth century - but gives no examples.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Jim McLean
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 12:43 PM

How about someone who is bonkers?

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 12:50 PM

I'm just 'gobsmacked'* that I never in all my life realised that bonk is knob backwards !!!

thanks immensly for that exceptional revelation.




* gobsmacked is a word i have never spoken aloud or written before in my entire life.

Even some of us born working class Brit's can't stand some of our own blokey colloquialisms.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 12:54 PM

Trafalgar backwards ir Raglafart.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 01:58 PM

Gobsmacked has invaded Canada. Probably will spread throughout English-speaking countries.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 02:26 PM

That leaves the USA out then :)

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 06:27 PM

John, are you familiar with the USian phrase "Bite Me"? (Or "em etib" backwards.)

For the record, "gobsmacked" is "dekcamsbog" backwards.

I think if someone is bonkers, it means they're fucked up. Not too different.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: GUEST,worried
Date: 15 Apr 14 - 06:38 AM

Has any one else been bonked on Mudact..?my mate cant access this site becaause bonk keeps coming on screen can anyone please help?

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: GUEST,concerened
Date: 15 Apr 14 - 06:43 AM

It has happened to me as well..cant access mudcat other than getting that

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Apr 14 - 01:12 PM

Guest you're talking to yourself. If you will visit http://www.whatismyip.com/ to learn what your IP address is and post it maybe someone will figure out what the trouble is, i.e., an existing spam bot block that covers a wide region (since you're apparently blocked out and can't send a PM). If you have been trolling at mudcat then you probably already know the answer.

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Stanron
Date: 15 Apr 14 - 01:53 PM

Bonk was in use with both definitions in the 1960s Merseyside of my memories. What's nasty about it? We'd none of us be here without a bit of sex.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 15 Apr 14 - 02:43 PM

We'd none of us be here without a bit of sex.
Except for Christ, Adam & Eve, ...
Test tube babies.

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Stanron
Date: 15 Apr 14 - 03:14 PM

Except for Christ, Adam & Eve, ...
Test tube babies.

Wow, what a forum!

Subject: RE: Tech: bonk ?
From: Musket
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 08:05 AM

Aye, there are a number of sexually transmitted diseases posting.