Re: ecxopic baob

--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:47:49 -0400 Sally Caves
> <scaves@...>
> writes:
> > The trouble with spam when I'm reading this list
> is that so much of
> > it
> > sounds like a new language invention.  This letter
> I got, subject
> > header
> > "ecxopic baob," sent from one "adenapickos," is
> the usual ad for
> > viagra.
> > What a disappointment.
> > Anybody care to guess what this means?  Excopic
> baob.  Now what
> > could that
> > have to do with sex, virility, performance,
> enlargement, impotence,
> > or what
> > have you?  Perhaps it has talismanic, apotropaic,
> or other magical
> > references.  How would its words parse?  What
> ethnic background
> > would Mr. or
> > Ms. Adenapickos come from, and how would we
> pronounce the name?
> > Maybe it's
> > an ANAGRAM!  Like the Jumble in the newspapers!
> Call Robert
> > Langdon!
> > Sally Caves
> -
>
> That's easy...
> It's obviously a typo for "eXCopic baob".
> "ex-" is obviously the Latinate prefix 'from', and
> "-ic" is the
> adjectival suffix.
> The "cop" in the middle doesn't have to do with
> police, but with Coptic
> (there's that '-ic' again!), which comes from
> Ancient Egyptian, and the
> Egyptians were famed for their mystical knowledge.
> So 'cop' means
> something like 'mystic', 'chemisty' (=Kemet!), or
> 'medicine'.
> "Baob" is an onomatopeia for soemthing big, like a
> didgeridoo; by
> extension, any similar large cylindrical object.
> Therefore, "ex-cop-ic baob" means "penile erection
> by chemistry/medicine"
>
> :-P
>
>
> -Stephen (Steg)
>  "word making is world making"
>      ~ avivah gottlieb zornberg
LOL! I certainly couldn't improve on that.


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