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From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: a horny dilemma
Message-ID: <3060@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Nov-84 21:31:04 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  4 21:31:04 1984
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>>    All right, you amateur etymologists.  Why the
>>    slang "horny" meaning "sexually excited" or
>>    "sexually excitable"? Has it got anything to do
>>    with the ancient and widespread "horned" meaning
>>    "cuckolded"?  And where did that come from? Any
>>    good stories for these?

>     I'd be interested to know how the word 'randy' got
>     to mean the same thing.

I'd like to know, too, since Randy is the logical dimunitive
of my name, though most people at MIT now call me Random (I've
never understood why MIT people are so obsessed with the
concept of Randomness, but that would be another article).  It's
really difficult to go through life introducing like this:
	"Hi, I'm 'Randy'."
	"Okay, so what's your name?"
And so on.
-- 
Randwulf  (Randy Haskins);  Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh