Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!mit-eddie!rh 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 Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.3060 Posted: Sun Nov 4 21:31:04 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Nov-84 04:58:10 EST References: <19@mot.UUCP> <1425@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 20 >> 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