Andre; In a message dated 2/14/97 7:29:33 PM, you wrote: <<Would you be so kind to explain in detail what F*** means? I am so curious!>> Although you wrote this to Barrie in response to his post I am sure that the Staid English reserved nature, as displayed so well by Barrie, will prevent him from answering this question. So although it is rather presumptuous of me to attempt to reply for him, I think I know exactly the four letter word that he referred to. Actually it was developed as a technical term by 'red neck' technicians in the South of this country. The word of course is "FRAM", verb/adjective/noun, rather interchangably. "FRAM"-meaning to strike a hard blow or make a decisive movement toward something. 'I frammed home the hammer shank into the hammer butt." Fram has many uses and many of them are rather idiomatic, such as that damn frammer! ,or this frammer won't fit! see also; Frammed, Frammer, Frammee, Framming, and in the most often heard usage in politics "I don't Framming believe it !" As to "Bonkers" and "Framming" just remember you can 'fram' with a 'bonker' but you can't 'bonk' with a 'frammer', unless you break your 'bonker'- then it becomes that "framming bonker"! Andre I do hope I have cleared up this momentary confusion for you. :-) And Barrie I do hope you will forgive my interceding here. ;-) Jim Bryant (FL) P.S.I was inspired to this by Horace so any blame or adverse comments should be sent directly to him. hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Horace Greeley)
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