Car accident: Sucks beyond words. Sue the bitch. Art show: OMG! That is so Fornication Under Consent of the Kinging cool! I'm so happy for you! ^___^ I need to enter an art show that I'll have something to show on my college apps. I won a writing contest, and all I got was fake money. :p You deffinetly got the better deal. ^__-
It was the equivelent of money to get math/science/english/ect. guids form thier specific site. But I already have all that stuff. :/ Educational prized. Pfft.
sadly the acronym is just another stupid internet urban legend. snopes.com (good resource for checking out stupid urban legends, incidentally)
exhibit b: american heritage dictionary program, 1995, possibly inaccurate but funny anyway: Notes: The obscenity fuck is a very old word, first recorded in English in the 15th century. Age has not dimmed its shock value, even though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in a poem entitled “ Flen flyys ” written sometime before 1500, is in code, illustrating the unacceptability of the word even then. The poem, composed in a mixture of Latin and English, satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, with the title taken from the first words of the poem, “ Flen, flyys, and freris, ” that is, “ fleas, flies, and friars. ” The line that contains fuck reads “ Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk. ” The Latin words “ Non sunt in coeli, quia ” mean “ they [the friars] are not in heaven, since. ” The code “ gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk ” is
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Oh internet! Why must you lie to us? Long time no see! Thank you for the information. I find it all fascinating. English is so odd. I just don't understand why someone would write something not true online. It's so mean!
That's "Fornication Under Consent of the King"ed Up!etank1111May 4 2004, 23:09:22 UTC
Mr. Engels (crazy pothead bio teacher) told me a different version. According to him, police officer during the 18th century would arrest prostitutes under the crime "Fornication Under Carnal Knowledge". Eventually the lazy cops got tired of writing it out all the time that they reduced it to it's acronym: F.U.C.K. Personally, I don't care much for the history of the word, I just like occasionally using it.
wow am i in troubleinnerdespairMay 8 2004, 17:03:28 UTC
ummm.....Boy am I an ass. IM REALLY SORRY ABOUT FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I TOTALLY FORGOT!!!!! REALLLY REALLY REALLY REALLY SORRY!!....but you are probably gonna hate me anyways...so i propose a bargain...after senior ball (im broke until then) I will take you to lunch anywhere you want, (well im lying, if you choose like some $100 place ill laugh at you) Ok??? ReAlly sorry... P.S. if its any consolation, VAN HELSING MADE ME WAnT TO KILL MYSELF
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Art show: OMG! That is so Fornication Under Consent of the Kinging cool! I'm so happy for you! ^___^ I need to enter an art show that I'll have something to show on my college apps. I won a writing contest, and all I got was fake money. :p You deffinetly got the better deal. ^__-
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Educational prized. Pfft.
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snopes.com (good resource for checking out stupid urban legends, incidentally)
exhibit b: american heritage dictionary program, 1995, possibly inaccurate but funny anyway:
Notes: The obscenity fuck is a very old word, first recorded in English in the 15th century. Age has not dimmed its shock value, even though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in a poem entitled “ Flen flyys ” written sometime before 1500, is in code, illustrating the unacceptability of the word even then. The poem, composed in a mixture of Latin and English, satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, with the title taken from the first words of the poem, “ Flen, flyys, and freris, ” that is, “ fleas, flies, and friars. ” The line that contains fuck reads “ Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk. ” The Latin words “ Non sunt in coeli, quia ” mean “ they [the friars] are not in heaven, since. ” The code “ gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk ” is ( ... )
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Long time no see!
Thank you for the information. I find it all fascinating. English is so odd. I just don't understand why someone would write something not true online. It's so mean!
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Why were you discussing that with him?!
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P.S. if its any consolation, VAN HELSING MADE ME WAnT TO KILL MYSELF
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