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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamie L. Olson" <olsonjl@umich.edu>
> "... Miss Horn, Miss Cole..."
>
> I can't find this is any of my dictionaries--mine are all too
> respectable!--but I know that in American slang 'cornhole' is a synonym
for
> 'asshole' (anus), and is just as vulgar too. My sense is that no one
would
> ever refer to another person as a 'cornhole', as people often do with
> 'asshole', though I may be mistaken. 'Cornhole' is instead meant to refer
> only to that specific anatomical part, and only in vulgar conversation. I
> leave the reasoning behind the word's etymological formation up to your
> imaginations.
>
> Actually, though, I am surprised that VN would have made this pun, because
I
> would have guessed the coinage to be more recent. Does anyone have any
more
> information on this word?
>
> I don't know whether this posting is "too disgusting," as Brian Howell
> suspects it could have been, though I apologize if it is. On the other
> hand, if VN made the pun himself, then it should be something that we are
> capable of discussing in a mature, scholarly fashion on this list.
>
> Jamie Olson
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 12:59 PM
> Subject: Fw: Appel/Lolita query about anagram/acrostic
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brian Howell" <fanshaw@123mail.org>
> >
> > > Maybe my brain is just tired, but Appel says in his Annotations on p.
> 402
> > > (Vintage, US, 1991) to p. 195, note 2 (for Part II, Chap. 11) 'the
first
> > > letters of the teachers' names have been transposed. "Corrected", the
> > > names combine to form an obscene verb'. I think the names he is
> referring
> > > to are Miss Horn, Miss Cole, and Miss Molar, but I don't know if you
are
> > > supposed to include Miss Redcock (!)and Miss Cormorant, let alone
Pratt
> > > in this sequence, or even the only the first letter or first letters
of
> > > each name. Anyway, if anyone can figure this out, please let me know -
> > > and if it's too disgusting just write to me off-list.
> > >
> > > Brian Howell
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EDNOTE. The verb "to cornhole" has been around along time. It was common
(in some circles) in my Indiana boyhood nearly 60 years ago. The usage is
certainly American and probably rural since our "corn" is elsewhere called
"maize." Corncobs were favored for wiping purposes in outhouses prior to the
advent of Sears and Roebuck catalogues -- or copies of Pravda in the USSR.
I recall hearing a quasi-Russian usage addressed to a dormitory full of
Russian-language students circa-1960: "Nel'zya kornholovat'," i.e. It is
forbidden to C***. Apparently the English term in still current since it is
on AOL 's list of banned vocabulary.
As an idle thought, it occurs to me that I don't recall ever having
heard the term in reference to women.
In short, I suspect VN's word play is in full knowledge of the term.
Rember you heard it all first on NABOKV-L.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamie L. Olson" <olsonjl@umich.edu>
> "... Miss Horn, Miss Cole..."
>
> I can't find this is any of my dictionaries--mine are all too
> respectable!--but I know that in American slang 'cornhole' is a synonym
for
> 'asshole' (anus), and is just as vulgar too. My sense is that no one
would
> ever refer to another person as a 'cornhole', as people often do with
> 'asshole', though I may be mistaken. 'Cornhole' is instead meant to refer
> only to that specific anatomical part, and only in vulgar conversation. I
> leave the reasoning behind the word's etymological formation up to your
> imaginations.
>
> Actually, though, I am surprised that VN would have made this pun, because
I
> would have guessed the coinage to be more recent. Does anyone have any
more
> information on this word?
>
> I don't know whether this posting is "too disgusting," as Brian Howell
> suspects it could have been, though I apologize if it is. On the other
> hand, if VN made the pun himself, then it should be something that we are
> capable of discussing in a mature, scholarly fashion on this list.
>
> Jamie Olson
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 12:59 PM
> Subject: Fw: Appel/Lolita query about anagram/acrostic
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brian Howell" <fanshaw@123mail.org>
> >
> > > Maybe my brain is just tired, but Appel says in his Annotations on p.
> 402
> > > (Vintage, US, 1991) to p. 195, note 2 (for Part II, Chap. 11) 'the
first
> > > letters of the teachers' names have been transposed. "Corrected", the
> > > names combine to form an obscene verb'. I think the names he is
> referring
> > > to are Miss Horn, Miss Cole, and Miss Molar, but I don't know if you
are
> > > supposed to include Miss Redcock (!)and Miss Cormorant, let alone
Pratt
> > > in this sequence, or even the only the first letter or first letters
of
> > > each name. Anyway, if anyone can figure this out, please let me know -
> > > and if it's too disgusting just write to me off-list.
> > >
> > > Brian Howell
-----------------------------------------------
EDNOTE. The verb "to cornhole" has been around along time. It was common
(in some circles) in my Indiana boyhood nearly 60 years ago. The usage is
certainly American and probably rural since our "corn" is elsewhere called
"maize." Corncobs were favored for wiping purposes in outhouses prior to the
advent of Sears and Roebuck catalogues -- or copies of Pravda in the USSR.
I recall hearing a quasi-Russian usage addressed to a dormitory full of
Russian-language students circa-1960: "Nel'zya kornholovat'," i.e. It is
forbidden to C***. Apparently the English term in still current since it is
on AOL 's list of banned vocabulary.
As an idle thought, it occurs to me that I don't recall ever having
heard the term in reference to women.
In short, I suspect VN's word play is in full knowledge of the term.
Rember you heard it all first on NABOKV-L.