Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Origin of the strongest of words (with joke, yet!) Message-ID: <4111@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 12:39:58 EDT Article-I.D.: tekecs.4111 Posted: Thu Oct 11 12:39:58 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 02:14:04 EDT Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 11 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)