I couldn’t figure out why the volume wouldn’t adjust on my boombox no matter what I did. Then I realized the music wasn’t coming from my boombox but from my computer. Duh!
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That’s funny.
My brother was trying some new in-ear headphones , listening to music on his phone, and said “Am I the only one who can hear this?” . He wasn’t sure if the music was coming from his phone or not.
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oh I thought this thread would be about boners…haha
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boner means a mistake - a goof. I didn’t know the sexual definition.
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That’s funny @PinCushion , both the good and the language haha!
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I call myself a boner all the time. I thought it had a sexual connotation. Like erections were called boners and boners only know one thing and distract from everything else.
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In my case, a boner IS a mistake these days. A happy accident 
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Nobody uses boner to mean a mistake anymore and haven’t for years.
It’s been slang for erection for at least 35 to 40 years.
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I learned it from Beavus and Buthead.
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This is a very funny thread !
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You’ve called me down before about not knowing slang. I’m not “nobody”.
I haven’t “called you down” for slang. Want to be specific and argumentative today? I’ve called you out for racist things. Slurs are NOT slang.
And we’re all nobody. So calm down.
And since I’m feeling irritable to be given crap on a holiday, here’s the entymology of the word.
boner (n.)
“blunder,” 1912, baseball slang, probably from bonehead. The meaning “erect penis” is 1950s, from earlier bone-on (1940s), which is probably a variation (with connecting notion of “hardness”) of hard-on (1893).
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