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Etymology Online offers that beaver in the gynecological sense is British slang dating from 1927, transferred from earlier meaning "a bearded man" (1910), or from the appearance of split beaver pelts.
You've never heard this one? Bedroom humor - kind of the opposite of a beaver cleaver...
Be careful if you take her to bed, some women have very powerful "leg" muscles and Elly may (or may not) clamp it shut on you!
Nope! Never heard it...........................................
.....................................sounds like a boy's 6th grade playground humor.
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You're right. I forgot all about the Bond women. They take this to the extreme...
Plenty O'Toole - obviously named after her father.
Holly Goodhead
Mary Goodnight
Tiffany Case
One has to remember that a Bond flick is an adolescent's boy's fantasy. Hence the first two names at least are there for a reason.
Mary Goodnight and Tiffany Case, however, came out of the books. Now maybe it's because I'm not a boy or maybe it's because of my exposure to other Brit TV, such as Dempsey & Makepeace, but I fail to see the joke there.
Or maybe it is because, as Drax said,
"You must forgive me but not being British, I often find your humor hard to follow."
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.....Robert Blake played an Italian cop named after an Italian shotgun...Baretta.
Well, some are deliberate such as "Purdey"....she's named after the shotgun company. But at least in a spy show, what one's name of address is and one's real name is may be two far different items indeed.
As a teenager, I was always amazed that TV's "Growing Pains" got away with a character named "Boner." The character's real last name was Stabone. His father's name was Sylvester.
Me, too. I think "Boner" isn't widely accepted as a dirty word. A lot of people don't react to it. Someone once told me boner meant to joke. Like he's being a boner. That person was like 50 when Growing Pains was one. Speaking of which, wasn't Boner what the high put on his diploma?
To ad to the list, Sookie Stackhouse, Buffy Summers and most of the names on that show (Xander? Oz? ).
......... Buffy Summers and most of the names on that show (Xander? Oz? ).
Xander is short for "Alexander" as in Alexander Lavelle "Xander" Harris ....... and Oz is, properly, Daniel "Oz" Osbourne.What's so strange about a name of Buffy Anne Summers?
Me, too. I think "Boner" isn't widely accepted as a dirty word. A lot of people don't react to it. Someone once told me boner meant to joke. Like he's being a boner.
Yeah. In the '50s it had an entire different meaning. See:
But by the time I was in junior high and high school (the '80s), it had an entirely different meaning that, at least as far as I know, was pretty widely accepted nation wide. I certainly saw it referenced in movies of the era. So either the producers of "Growing Pains" were so old that they didn't get it, or they were purposefully putting this innuendo on TV.
Yeah. In the '50s it had an entire different meaning. See:
But by the time I was in junior high and high school (the '80s), it had an entirely different meaning that, at least as far as I know, was pretty widely accepted nation wide. I certainly saw it referenced in movies of the era. So either the producers of "Growing Pains" were so old that they didn't get it, or they were purposefully putting this innuendo on TV.
I recall a children's cartoon, probably an HB one, where the heroes crash into a skeleton and the sidekick says, "Looks like we really pulled a boner there.".
Well, it's not a character's name, but rather an actor, but Rider Strong is a pretty awful name. Sounds like a adult film star.
I think his parents were hippies. I don't know why, but I'll always remember some article about him where he said his parents forced him to eat like a vegetarian and other things he didn't want to do as a child. Not child abuse stuff, just hippie stuff.
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That person was like 50 when Growing Pains was one. Speaking of which, wasn't Boner what the high put on his diploma? 
Oz? 
