prophet said:
RAIDER said:
Word of the Day - June 17, 2014
Stinkin'
The multipurpose HACker adjective.
If it is distasteful, you don't stinkin like it!
'Stinkin' is every "cuss" word.
Ex:
This stinkin thread is stinkin great, I stinkin love it!
Anishinabe
At the risk of losing my HACker credibility, I have to admit I never could use that word. I was around those who used it all the time. My best friend turned himself in for speeding with his bus on the Dan Ryan and got expelled so that he moved out to the "rescue mission" at the bus barn. That was the "Mecca" for all those who had perfected the use of the word stinkin, a favorite word of Bro Vineyard's.
My aversion to stinkin goes back to the summer before I left home to go to college. I had a job on a construction crew for the summer, working for the first time in a worldly environment. One day something happened to cause me to start to say my favorite "Christian" cuss word, "fiddlesticks." I caught myself and stopped after only saying the f sound. My coworkers all stopped what they were doing and stared at me. One of them said, "Go ahead and say it. We know what you were thinking." As much as I tried, I could not convince some of them that I was saying "fiddlesticks."
No, I never reprimanded any HACkers for saying stinkin, but inwardly I cringed every time I heard it. It was the same when Dr Hyles went on his "dirty brick ------------- loamer" rants. Now I'm not even sure what it was he was saying.