Klarinet Archive - Posting 000372.txt from 1997/02

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Oanastic?? [off-topic/ most off-color]
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 20:15:34 -0500

What! You mean Dan L. missed that! I knew sooner, or later, there would be
something that he would regret not being around to read "1st hand" ;)

At 05:33 PM 2/11/97 -0600, Gary Young wrote:
>-----This is an off-topic message-----
>
>The word is "onanastic," derived from the name of Onan (Onan's name, not
>surprisingly, was "Onan"). Onan is/was a character in the Torah/OT who (as
>one translation, I think the King James, says) "spilled his seed upon the
>ground," i.e. masturbated. Poor Onan is now moderately famous for what he
>did: Onanism is the practice of masturbation, and onanastic means
>masturbatory. Dorothy Parker named her pet bird Onan because he spilled
>his seed upon the ground. This is probably more than you wanted to know
>about the subject.
>
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>From: Bethany Crim[SMTP:bcrim@-----.NET]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 1997 4:26 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list KLARINET
>Subject: Oanastic??
>
> Can some please explain to me what oanastic means? I mean, I looked it
>up,
>and it wasn't there!
>
>
David C. Blumberg
reedman@-----.com
Principal Clarinet Riverside Symphonia
Adjunct Woodwind Instructor Univ. of Penn,. Bryn Mawr College
Foundation of Arts and Musical Excellence Summer Music Festival (FAME)