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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Origin of the strongest of words (with joke, yet!)
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Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 12:39:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 11 12:39:58 1984
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Regarding "nookie", I don't believe it is from the Dutch "neuken", or
even (as Piet Beertema slyly suggests) from an American fascination
with "nuking" people, but from the Hawaiian word for virginity,
"lakanuki".

And if you believe that, maybe you need to read the subject line again!


				with apologies to native Hawaiians,
					Jeff Winslow
					(the howling haole)