News Dumb Lunt
posted by on April 9 at 9:41 AM
The Telegraph reports that a village in the UK is considering a name change—villagers, the paper asserts, are sick of local “yobs” defacing signs identifying the village. The name of the village? Lunt—which also so happens to be the name of the street in Chicago where my family lived for, oh, twenty years. (Old joke: There are three streets in Chicago that rhyme with vagina: Paulina, Carolina, and Lunt.)
But if you read the story it’s pretty clear that villagers, plural, aren’t pushing this name change. All the villagers the paper spoke to—save one—are against the name change. So who’s for it? One local politician, a conservative naturally, who can’t stand to see all those innocent Ls being transformed into dirty Cs. But Lunt has been Lunt—and jokes have been made (cunt has been around for ever)—for centuries. The village first appears in the records in 1215.
That joke made me laugh.
They're a lunt hair away from change.
There's a town in Germany called Fucking. They think it's funny. So do I.
STOP
FOR ME
IT'S
THE
CUNT!
Change the town name to Locksucker.
You forgot Melvina.
Remember when AOL blocked all mention of the town of Scunthorpe?
if they were clever they would change the town name to "cunt" and the local "yobs" would change the "c" to an "l," thus solving the problem.
Why not just get the conservative politician drunk and wheel him down to a recruiting office to go die in Iraq?
That would solve it.
I love that joke. But, I've always told it with Paulina, Regina, and Lunt -- all streets I know. I've never heard of Carolina (or Melvina).
Indeed. Cunt comes from the Latin cunctus, meaning crack. (But my research on this vital matter in the past didn't tell me when it started being used this way.)
Is it for ye wolde have my queynte allone?
Wy, taak it al! lo, have it every deel!
Is it for ye wolde have my queynte allone?
Wy, taak it al! lo, have it every deel!
medina, regina and lunt
When I was living in Chicago, and whenever I was visiting the Heartland Cafe w/ friends, I always made sure I kicked Lunt. I like kicking Lunt.
Um, excuse me? This from a man named Dr. Ball?
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