MDMD2: The Learned English Dog

Ian (Hank Kimble) Scuffling scuffling at gmail.com
Fri Dec 14 16:02:46 CST 2007


(g)Naw-fuck is the local pronunciation.

And not too far away, we have Fauquier County.  I've always always
wanted to do standup comedy there... too easy!
Fauguier Daughters (of the Revolution,) for instance.  A-and what do
we call the people who live in Damascus...?

Henry Mu (who are you?)
http://www.urdomain.us/kcuf.htm
(now with holiday music!)

On Dec 14, 2007 4:09 PM, David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's also the pun, later in M&D (ch. 39, p. 396):
>
> Dixon beams and waves at them. "Are all Virginian Ladies as merrily dispos'd?"
>
> "Ev'rywhere but at Norfolk, where talk of Passion far outweighs its Enactment,--indeed, the Sailors' Paronomasia for that wretched Place, is 'No-Fuck.' "



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