In a message dated 10/1/2002 6:28:02 PM Mountain Daylight Time, pamjknight@yahoo.com writes:
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> Please keep it clean. I find the use of the term "boner" to be extremely
> offensive. I thought this list had ethics.
Geeze Pam, Dale's intent was not to be offensive... I would hope that members are not that hypersensative!
In fact, The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms defines this term in the context that Dale choose as:
This expression is derived from the noun bonehead, for "blockhead" or "stupid person." [Slang; early 1900s]
Mike "Hope nobody objects to the word member" Wilkinson Parker, CO