At one time, a boner was a mistake. And now, it’s — you know. Beware of that outdated usage, grownups! This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Innocent Boner”
We’re talking about the things that people say that make them seem old-fashioned or out of touch.
There was a Reddit discussion that we’ll link to, and I wanted to share a couple that I liked.
One says that her friend’s mom, when teaching a church class, would call a mistake a boner, which of course means a completely different thing to a certain set of Americans.
Oh, yeah, you young whippersnappers. I remember hearing that. It was just a mistake, right? Yeah, a goof. A goof.
And then another one is, this fellow says, or it could be a woman, it’s hard to tell with those nicks on Reddit. They said that their dad asked if they were doing the pot. And then when this person left, their dad said, I know you are because I found your being. My being.
So there’s two things happening there. One is this article, there’s no reason for the pot. It’s just pot or marijuana or MJ, whatever you want to call it, right? Right.
And then to get the name kind of wrong, right? Yeah, that the is, or the, is a really, it’s a telltale kind of shibboleth, right? Like the internet, the internets.
Yeah, and then getting the name a little bit wrong, interweb, or your interface web tube. I’ll put it on the Facebook.
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