Friday 14 May 2010

Learning English

Heavens to Murgatroyd, as Top Cat used to say (his intellectual best friends call him TC), I’ve just discovered what MILF stands for: I thought it was mother-in-law’s friend. It never crossed my mind there was a silent ‘t’ in it. And the saddest thing about knowledge is that, once you know, you know
Never mind - the loss of innocence has never before deterred me. My next goal is to pin down the meaning of ‘meme’. It’s a slippery little word that’s begun popping up everywhere. Wikipedia says it was coined by Richard Dawkins (who some regard as a slippery little man, so you could argue it all makes a sort of sense). Could he be responsible for MILF as well, I wonder. Someone must be. Why not him?

7 comments:

  1. good lord. The thought of Dawkins referring to ladies as MILFs is really quite jarring. It seems that Elberry is currently the standard-bearer for MILFs everywhere; his world seems to be populated by great numbers of them.

    I think that MILF has been replaced by the more genteel 'Cougar' these days

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  2. A cougar? What's wrong with being an old bag - that's the role I'm perfecting.

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  3. I note there is no such thing for the ladies as 'FILF', even though the saying of it gives some idea of the thought of it.

    Dawkins is his own meme.

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  4. For Dawkins the exciting taboo would be CILF (Christian...).

    You've obviously never seen the cinematic milestone that is American Pie then, Z. The meme of 'MILF' has spread from that.

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  5. Recusant - as in 'Pay attention to me - me'?
    Brit - V funny. Yes, American Pie passed me by.

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  6. Unfortunately there's an even sadder genre than MILF.... the GILF as in grandmother.

    I'm so sorry zmkc, once you know there is no unknowing....

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  7. I suppose GILF is at least sexually indiscriminate

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