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Claim: The word 'fuck' derives from an acronymic phrase, either 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' or 'Fornication Under Consent of the King.' ; Status: False.; Examples:; ... Origins: Though a few common English words have grown out of acronyms (words created by taking the first letter(s) of major words in a phrase),
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If you'd like to get the etymology of f-u-fragmented-DNA-strands from a more conventionally respectable source than Uncle Cecil, try Eric Partridge, "Origins: ... As far as I know, all acronym-based hypotheses (Fornication Under Consent of the King, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, etc.) are considered spurious,
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A friend told me it's an abbreviation of "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge,'' which was supposedly stamped on the foreheads of couples who were locked up in the stocks for fornicating without benefit of matrimony. Also, ... I did some research and found one of the origins in a book called Shakespeare's Bawdy, which says that...
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www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1009/whats-the-origin-of-the-f-word
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etymology (n) an account of the origins and the developments in meaning of a word.; ... There is a legend that the old name for the crime of rape was 'Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge', and part of the punishment was that an abbreviation of the crime would be branded on the perpetrators head. Hence, people with 'F. U. C.
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In short, "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" is meat-and-potatoes, no nonsense AOR rock n' roll. Van Halen and Hagar's third collaboration saw all involved return to their roots, more or less. The band opted to make a great hard-rock album, as opposed to a more commercial adult-contemporary one.
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THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE FOR FANTASY ROLE-PLAYING GAMES The ruling passion, be it what it will, the ruling passion conquers reason still. --- Alexander Pope Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
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www.lysator.liu.se/~johol/netbooks/CarnalGuide/carnal.txt
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In that case, the Court reviewed an Arkansas statute that made it unlawful for an instructor to teach evolution or to use a textbook that referred to this scientific theory.
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Van Halen song lyrics for albums Van Halen, Van Halen II, Woman and Children First, Fair Warning, Diver Down, 1984, 5150, OU812, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, Balance, Twister (original soundtrack), Van Halen III indexed by album and by song ... 1991 For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge...
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Listen to Van Halen – Man on a Mission . Man on a Mission appears on the album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Van Halen is an international hard rock band formed in the early-1970s, originally called Mammoth (before being called Van Halen, one of the band’s ideas for a name was Rat Salade).
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