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I can only speak for the #culture I grew up in, but I believe the following also applies to most human cultures. We seem to expect our children to know what they want to do, and stick with it. I get how it's imperative to have #goals, #ambitions, and be held #accountable. But our blind demand towards #teenagers to decide on their #future at a time when the #brain is still developing, and then having the expectation that this is a #lifelong decision is ludicrous.
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Global stock markets are bracing for falls when trading resumes on Monday
after Donald Trump threatened eight European countries with fresh #tariffs until they support his ambition to acquire #Greenland.The US president’s plan to impose new trade levies of 10% on goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland
from 1 February, rising to 25% on 1 June, is creating #fear in the #markets, and among European businesses.Trading on the brokerage IG’s weekend markets suggest there will be #losses on the London Stock Exchange when it reopens on Monday,
while rising geopolitical fears could drive precious #metal prices towards new record highs.
Wall Street, which reopens on Tuesday, is also on track for a fall.There were signs on Sunday that European business groups were pushing the EU to flex its muscles in response.
Germany’s engineering association,
the VDMA,
called on the European Commission to consider using its “#anti-#coercion instrument”
against the US.“If the EU gives in here, it will only encourage the US president to make the next ludicrous demand and threaten further tariffs,”
the VDMA president, Bertram Kawlath,
said in a statement on Sunday. -
Muy interesante y oportuna esta jornada sobre #CambioClimático en el marco de #LaUniClimática2025 de @climatica_coop
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Trying to get https://github.com/pythonspeed/profila working on macOS.
Good news: I've gotten debugger-based sampling using lldb, which means it's usable on macOS.
Bad news: lldb is ludicrously slow. It takes 100ms to take a sample. And that's not time the program is running, that's just lldb. So if you spend 50% time in lldb, and 50% time actually running, that's 5 Hz sampling rate, not exactly the best rate for profiling.
(For comparison, I'm easily getting 50Hz from gdb).
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Giertycha można nie lubić (ja nie lubię), ale cenić za umiejętności go trzeba. Tutaj jeden z najlepszych standupów w historii polskiego Sejmu, rok 2007.
I marszałek Dorn: "jeszcze tylko 10 sekund na okrzyki, potem przerwa techniczna". W dawnych czasach to chyba i te Sejmy ciekawsze zwoływano. :)
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█ Svalbard, un futur epicentre de la febre àrtica a 1.300 km del pol nord ▓▒░ El remot i inhòspit arxipèlag noruec, on el desgel s'accelera, és l'únic territori de l'OTAN on Rússia té assentaments
https://www.3cat.cat/3catinfo/svalbard-un-futur-epicentre-de-la-febre-artica-a-1300-km-del-pol-nord/noticia/3408612/?ext=MASTODON_SOCIAL -
[P] I think I'm not a fan of the concept of canon, it feels more like an egomaniacal need for control than aught else, where things are writ in stone that ought not be. The SCP wiki preferring hubs and self-contained, cohesive storylines over canon appeals to me. It feels patently ludicrous to claim that any given person's interpretation is invalid "'Cause dat ain't cannon! Kaboom!" An annoying, nonsensical farce.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #scpfoundation #scp #writing #canon
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cornhole
The following article appeared in the online news site the Baltimore Banner on 23 March 2026:
Putting aside the fact that this headline is a wonderful example of the infinite expressiveness of language—expressing a thought that no one would ever have imagined prior to reading it—its use of cornhole is remarkable, for that word is an apparent violator of Gresham’s Law as applied to language—that “bad” meanings will drive out “good” ones. For cornhole is both a noun referring to a wholesome beanbag game, played by children and serious adult competitors alike, and a verb meaning to engage in anal intercourse.
Cornhole is not a case where the sexual sense of the word is restricted to a niche discourse community, so that those who participate in the beanbag game are unaware of its carnal meaning. The sexual sense is much older than the ludic sense and is well known to the wider public. In my own case, I was familiar with the sexual sense long before I learned of the game, which was when I first moved to Texas in 2016, and one of my students proudly admitted, to my confusion and surprise, that they enjoyed cornhole.
The game has recently made an appearance on the HBO series DTF St. Louis, where the protagonists get to know one another over a game of cornhole in the first episode; the episode is even titled “Cornhole.” But despite the sexual theme and plot of the series, in the show the game is simply a game. No one makes a crack about the sexual meaning of cornhole and there are no obvious double entendres involving it. While the writers must have been aware of the double meaning, there is no indication that is the case from watching the show. Cornhole is just about the most innocent aspect of the series.
As the setting for DTF St. Louis indicates, the game of cornhole is especially popular in middle America, apparently less so on the coasts. For those unfamiliar, it is played with a raised and tilted board that has a hole cut in it, and players attempt to toss beanbags into the hole. There is an American Cornhole Association, founded in 2005, that claims to be the “governing body for the sport of cornhole,” but its website seems to exist mainly to sell cornhole-related products. The rival American Cornhole League was founded in 2015; its website, while it also sells merchandise as a side hustle, focuses on organizing and promoting tournaments. And there is even a World Cornhole Organization that has held a Cornhole World Cup competition since 2023.
Equipment for the game of cornhole. Michael Rivera, 2015. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0The game is first described in an 1883 patent under the name Parlor Quoits, the name cornhole being much more recent. That later name is only reliably attested to in the twenty-first century, although it may be a few decades older. I found the following classified ad in the Cleveland, Ohio Plain Dealer from 4 March 1979:
ANYONE KNOWING WHEREABOUTS of Mary Oriti of Parma, cabinet cornhole expert, please call Chuck at [phone number].
Putting aside the mystery of what happened to Mary, I can’t tell whether or not cabinet cornhole is a reference to the game. I’m reasonably confident that it doesn’t refer to the sex act, although it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that Chuck and Mary were into non-vanilla sex.
The earliest clear reference to the game of cornhole is in another Ohio classified ad, this one from 13 July 2001 in the Cincinnati Post:
CORNHOLE—Beanbag style yard game fun/safe for all $50 [phone number].
The Oxford English Dictionary has a first usage citation from 2002, so it’s a good assumption that the name of the game was becoming well established during the opening years of this century.
The sexual sense, on the other hand, dates to over a century ago. The gay slang verb to cornhole is recorded in academic literature in Edward Kempf’s 1920 Psychopathology:
He said the “boys call me chicken and kid me about cornholing me (sodomy) and they call me shitpot.” He was very suspicious of everyone and reluctant to tell me about his case. He was having auditory hallucinations and other vivid sensory disturbances. When asked, using his phrase, if he had been “cornholed,” he said not unless they had “chloroformed” him. He believed that this might have occurred. He admitted having had such sexual relations with his brother when a boy.
And J. E. Lighter’s Historical Dictionary of American Slang cites Henry N. Cary’s Sexual Vocabulary, a typescript from c. 1920, as glossing the noun cornhole as the “anus.” So it’s pretty clear that the sexual sense was in oral circulation in the opening years of the last century.
While the term started out as gay slang at the start of the twentieth century, by century’s end it had become generally familiar to heterosexuals, making its way into mainstream entertainment in the 1990s. The MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-Head featured an alter-ego of Beavis named Cornholio; that is Beavis with his t-shirt pulled over his head and saying things like “I am Cornholio, I need TP for my bunghole.” Cornholio made his debut in season 4, episode 29, “Generation in Crisis,” which aired 14 July 1994.
CornholioAnd the sitcom Arrested Development (S1E3, “Bringing Up Buster,” 16 November 2003) contained a conversation between Lucille Bluth, played by the inimitable Jessica Walter, and her son Michael about her other son, Buster, with a line that will forever live rent free in my head:
LUCILLE: Everyone’s laughing and riding and cornholing except Buster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LntVJf9UG3g
Jason Bateman, who plays Michael, is also one of the stars of DTF St. Louis.
The cornholing double entendre in the Arrested Development scene doesn’t involve the beanbag game. It is playing off another trope in the show, the “Cornballer,” a defective deep fryer for balls of corn meal that burned the hands of anyone who tried to use it. Still the word’s use on the show demonstrates that the sexual sense was well established enough to be a joke on network television at the same time the game of cornhole was rising in popularity.
As to the etymology of the anal intercourse sense, that, like the origin of most slang terms, is more guesswork than fact. There is a literal sense of cornhole, meaning a hole in which a corn seed is planted, that dates to the seventeenth century. It seems likely that the sense of an anus came from this, and the verb from this anatomical sense. The origin of the name of the game is less mysterious, although it too is not known with absolute certainty—the bags were originally filled with dry corn kernels and the hole, obviously, refers to the target hole in the board.
And while the game of cornhole is played in earnest, I would not be entirely surprised if the name was coined as a kind of inside joke, with full knowledge of the carnal sense, a case of Middle America “owning the libs” on the coasts and enjoying the shocked looks on their faces when they hear the name of the game for the first time.
Sources:
Classified Ad. Cincinnati Post (Ohio), 13 July 2001, 12C/10. Readex: America’s Historical Newspapers.
Classified ad. Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), 4 March 1979, Section 7, 1/1. Readex: America’s Historical Newspapers.
“Cornholio.” Beavis and Butt-Head Wiki. Accessed 25 March 2026. Fandom.com.
Green’s Dictionary of Slang, accessed 24 March 2026, s.v. cornhole, n., cornhole, v.
Kempf, Edward J. Psychopathology. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1920, 676. HathiTrust Digital Library.
Lighter, J. E. Historical Dictionary of American Slang, vol. 1 of 2. New York: Random House, 1994, s.v. cornhole, n.
Oxford English Dictionary Online, September 2021, s.v. cornhole, n., cornhole, v.; June 2021, s.v. beanbag, n.
#analSex #ArrestedDevelopment #BeavisButthead #cornhole #popCulture -
cornhole
The following article appeared in the online news site the Baltimore Banner on 23 March 2026:
Putting aside the fact that this headline is a wonderful example of the infinite expressiveness of language—expressing a thought that no one would ever have imagined prior to reading it—its use of cornhole is remarkable, for that word is an apparent violator of Gresham’s Law as applied to language—that “bad” meanings will drive out “good” ones. For cornhole is both a noun referring to a wholesome beanbag game, played by children and serious adult competitors alike, and a verb meaning to engage in anal intercourse.
Cornhole is not a case where the sexual sense of the word is restricted to a niche discourse community, so that those who participate in the beanbag game are unaware of its carnal meaning. The sexual sense is much older than the ludic sense and is well known to the wider public. In my own case, I was familiar with the sexual sense long before I learned of the game, which was when I first moved to Texas in 2016, and one of my students proudly admitted, to my confusion and surprise, that they enjoyed cornhole.
The game has recently made an appearance on the HBO series DTF St. Louis, where the protagonists get to know one another over a game of cornhole in the first episode; the episode is even titled “Cornhole.” But despite the sexual theme and plot of the series, in the show the game is simply a game. No one makes a crack about the sexual meaning of cornhole and there are no obvious double entendres involving it. While the writers must have been aware of the double meaning, there is no indication that is the case from watching the show. Cornhole is just about the most innocent aspect of the series.
As the setting for DTF St. Louis indicates, the game of cornhole is especially popular in middle America, apparently less so on the coasts. For those unfamiliar, it is played with a raised and tilted board that has a hole cut in it, and players attempt to toss beanbags into the hole. There is an American Cornhole Association, founded in 2005, that claims to be the “governing body for the sport of cornhole,” but its website seems to exist mainly to sell cornhole-related products. The rival American Cornhole League was founded in 2015; its website, while it also sells merchandise as a side hustle, focuses on organizing and promoting tournaments. And there is even a World Cornhole Organization that has held a Cornhole World Cup competition since 2023.
Equipment for the game of cornhole. Michael Rivera, 2015. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0The game is first described in an 1883 patent under the name Parlor Quoits, the name cornhole being much more recent. That later name is only reliably attested to in the twenty-first century, although it may be a few decades older. I found the following classified ad in the Cleveland, Ohio Plain Dealer from 4 March 1979:
ANYONE KNOWING WHEREABOUTS of Mary Oriti of Parma, cabinet cornhole expert, please call Chuck at [phone number].
Putting aside the mystery of what happened to Mary, I can’t tell whether or not cabinet cornhole is a reference to the game. I’m reasonably confident that it doesn’t refer to the sex act, although it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that Chuck and Mary were into non-vanilla sex.
The earliest clear reference to the game of cornhole is in another Ohio classified ad, this one from 13 July 2001 in the Cincinnati Post:
CORNHOLE—Beanbag style yard game fun/safe for all $50 [phone number].
The Oxford English Dictionary has a first usage citation from 2002, so it’s a good assumption that the name of the game was becoming well established during the opening years of this century.
The sexual sense, on the other hand, dates to over a century ago. The gay slang verb to cornhole is recorded in academic literature in Edward Kempf’s 1920 Psychopathology:
He said the “boys call me chicken and kid me about cornholing me (sodomy) and they call me shitpot.” He was very suspicious of everyone and reluctant to tell me about his case. He was having auditory hallucinations and other vivid sensory disturbances. When asked, using his phrase, if he had been “cornholed,” he said not unless they had “chloroformed” him. He believed that this might have occurred. He admitted having had such sexual relations with his brother when a boy.
And J. E. Lighter’s Historical Dictionary of American Slang cites Henry N. Cary’s Sexual Vocabulary, a typescript from c. 1920, as glossing the noun cornhole as the “anus.” So it’s pretty clear that the sexual sense was in oral circulation in the opening years of the last century.
While the term started out as gay slang at the start of the twentieth century, by century’s end it had become generally familiar to heterosexuals, making its way into mainstream entertainment in the 1990s. The MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-Head featured an alter-ego of Beavis named Cornholio; that is Beavis with his t-shirt pulled over his head and saying things like “I am Cornholio, I need TP for my bunghole.” Cornholio made his debut in season 4, episode 29, “Generation in Crisis,” which aired 14 July 1994.
CornholioAnd the sitcom Arrested Development (S1E3, “Bringing Up Buster,” 16 November 2003) contained a conversation between Lucille Bluth, played by the inimitable Jessica Walter, and her son Michael about her other son, Buster, with a line that will forever live rent free in my head:
LUCILLE: Everyone’s laughing and riding and cornholing except Buster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LntVJf9UG3g
Jason Bateman, who plays Michael, is also one of the stars of DTF St. Louis.
The cornholing double entendre in the Arrested Development scene doesn’t involve the beanbag game. It is playing off another trope in the show, the “Cornballer,” a defective deep fryer for balls of corn meal that burned the hands of anyone who tried to use it. Still the word’s use on the show demonstrates that the sexual sense was well established enough to be a joke on network television at the same time the game of cornhole was rising in popularity.
As to the etymology of the anal intercourse sense, that, like the origin of most slang terms, is more guesswork than fact. There is a literal sense of cornhole, meaning a hole in which a corn seed is planted, that dates to the seventeenth century. It seems likely that the sense of an anus came from this, and the verb from this anatomical sense. The origin of the name of the game is less mysterious, although it too is not known with absolute certainty—the bags were originally filled with dry corn kernels and the hole, obviously, refers to the target hole in the board.
And while the game of cornhole is played in earnest, I would not be entirely surprised if the name was coined as a kind of inside joke, with full knowledge of the carnal sense, a case of Middle America “owning the libs” on the coasts and enjoying the shocked looks on their faces when they hear the name of the game for the first time.
Sources:
Classified Ad. Cincinnati Post (Ohio), 13 July 2001, 12C/10. Readex: America’s Historical Newspapers.
Classified ad. Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), 4 March 1979, Section 7, 1/1. Readex: America’s Historical Newspapers.
“Cornholio.” Beavis and Butt-Head Wiki. Accessed 25 March 2026. Fandom.com.
Green’s Dictionary of Slang, accessed 24 March 2026, s.v. cornhole, n., cornhole, v.
Kempf, Edward J. Psychopathology. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1920, 676. HathiTrust Digital Library.
Lighter, J. E. Historical Dictionary of American Slang, vol. 1 of 2. New York: Random House, 1994, s.v. cornhole, n.
Oxford English Dictionary Online, September 2021, s.v. cornhole, n., cornhole, v.; June 2021, s.v. beanbag, n.
#analSex #ArrestedDevelopment #BeavisButthead #cornhole #popCulture -
cornhole
The following article appeared in the online news site the Baltimore Banner on 23 March 2026:
Putting aside the fact that this headline is a wonderful example of the infinite expressiveness of language—expressing a thought that no one would ever have imagined prior to reading it—its use of cornhole is remarkable, for that word is an apparent violator of Gresham’s Law as applied to language—that “bad” meanings will drive out “good” ones. For cornhole is both a noun referring to a wholesome beanbag game, played by children and serious adult competitors alike, and a verb meaning to engage in anal intercourse.
Cornhole is not a case where the sexual sense of the word is restricted to a niche discourse community, so that those who participate in the beanbag game are unaware of its carnal meaning. The sexual sense is much older than the ludic sense and is well known to the wider public. In my own case, I was familiar with the sexual sense long before I learned of the game, which was when I first moved to Texas in 2016, and one of my students proudly admitted, to my confusion and surprise, that they enjoyed cornhole.
The game has recently made an appearance on the HBO series DTF St. Louis, where the protagonists get to know one another over a game of cornhole in the first episode; the episode is even titled “Cornhole.” But despite the sexual theme and plot of the series, in the show the game is simply a game. No one makes a crack about the sexual meaning of cornhole and there are no obvious double entendres involving it. While the writers must have been aware of the double meaning, there is no indication that is the case from watching the show. Cornhole is just about the most innocent aspect of the series.
As the setting for DTF St. Louis indicates, the game of cornhole is especially popular in middle America, apparently less so on the coasts. For those unfamiliar, it is played with a raised and tilted board that has a hole cut in it, and players attempt to toss beanbags into the hole. There is an American Cornhole Association, founded in 2005, that claims to be the “governing body for the sport of cornhole,” but its website seems to exist mainly to sell cornhole-related products. The rival American Cornhole League was founded in 2015; its website, while it also sells merchandise as a side hustle, focuses on organizing and promoting tournaments. And there is even a World Cornhole Organization that has held a Cornhole World Cup competition since 2023.
Equipment for the game of cornhole. Michael Rivera, 2015. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0The game is first described in an 1883 patent under the name Parlor Quoits, the name cornhole being much more recent. That later name is only reliably attested to in the twenty-first century, although it may be a few decades older. I found the following classified ad in the Cleveland, Ohio Plain Dealer from 4 March 1979:
ANYONE KNOWING WHEREABOUTS of Mary Oriti of Parma, cabinet cornhole expert, please call Chuck at [phone number].
Putting aside the mystery of what happened to Mary, I can’t tell whether or not cabinet cornhole is a reference to the game. I’m reasonably confident that it doesn’t refer to the sex act, although it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that Chuck and Mary were into non-vanilla sex.
The earliest clear reference to the game of cornhole is in another Ohio classified ad, this one from 13 July 2001 in the Cincinnati Post:
CORNHOLE—Beanbag style yard game fun/safe for all $50 [phone number].
The Oxford English Dictionary has a first usage citation from 2002, so it’s a good assumption that the name of the game was becoming well established during the opening years of this century.
The sexual sense, on the other hand, dates to over a century ago. The gay slang verb to cornhole is recorded in academic literature in Edward Kempf’s 1920 Psychopathology:
He said the “boys call me chicken and kid me about cornholing me (sodomy) and they call me shitpot.” He was very suspicious of everyone and reluctant to tell me about his case. He was having auditory hallucinations and other vivid sensory disturbances. When asked, using his phrase, if he had been “cornholed,” he said not unless they had “chloroformed” him. He believed that this might have occurred. He admitted having had such sexual relations with his brother when a boy.
And J. E. Lighter’s Historical Dictionary of American Slang cites Henry N. Cary’s Sexual Vocabulary, a typescript from c. 1920, as glossing the noun cornhole as the “anus.” So it’s pretty clear that the sexual sense was in oral circulation in the opening years of the last century.
While the term started out as gay slang at the start of the twentieth century, by century’s end it had become generally familiar to heterosexuals, making its way into mainstream entertainment in the 1990s. The MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-Head featured an alter-ego of Beavis named Cornholio; that is Beavis with his t-shirt pulled over his head and saying things like “I am Cornholio, I need TP for my bunghole.” Cornholio made his debut in season 4, episode 29, “Generation in Crisis,” which aired 14 July 1994.
CornholioAnd the sitcom Arrested Development (S1E3, “Bringing Up Buster,” 16 November 2003) contained a conversation between Lucille Bluth, played by the inimitable Jessica Walter, and her son Michael about her other son, Buster, with a line that will forever live rent free in my head:
LUCILLE: Everyone’s laughing and riding and cornholing except Buster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LntVJf9UG3g
Jason Bateman, who plays Michael, is also one of the stars of DTF St. Louis.
The cornholing double entendre in the Arrested Development scene doesn’t involve the beanbag game. It is playing off another trope in the show, the “Cornballer,” a defective deep fryer for balls of corn meal that burned the hands of anyone who tried to use it. Still the word’s use on the show demonstrates that the sexual sense was well established enough to be a joke on network television at the same time the game of cornhole was rising in popularity.
As to the etymology of the anal intercourse sense, that, like the origin of most slang terms, is more guesswork than fact. There is a literal sense of cornhole, meaning a hole in which a corn seed is planted, that dates to the seventeenth century. It seems likely that the sense of an anus came from this, and the verb from this anatomical sense. The origin of the name of the game is less mysterious, although it too is not known with absolute certainty—the bags were originally filled with dry corn kernels and the hole, obviously, refers to the target hole in the board.
And while the game of cornhole is played in earnest, I would not be entirely surprised if the name was coined as a kind of inside joke, with full knowledge of the carnal sense, a case of Middle America “owning the libs” on the coasts and enjoying the shocked looks on their faces when they hear the name of the game for the first time.
Sources:
Classified Ad. Cincinnati Post (Ohio), 13 July 2001, 12C/10. Readex: America’s Historical Newspapers.
Classified ad. Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), 4 March 1979, Section 7, 1/1. Readex: America’s Historical Newspapers.
“Cornholio.” Beavis and Butt-Head Wiki. Accessed 25 March 2026. Fandom.com.
Green’s Dictionary of Slang, accessed 24 March 2026, s.v. cornhole, n., cornhole, v.
Kempf, Edward J. Psychopathology. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1920, 676. HathiTrust Digital Library.
Lighter, J. E. Historical Dictionary of American Slang, vol. 1 of 2. New York: Random House, 1994, s.v. cornhole, n.
Oxford English Dictionary Online, September 2021, s.v. cornhole, n., cornhole, v.; June 2021, s.v. beanbag, n.
#analSex #ArrestedDevelopment #BeavisButthead #cornhole #popCulture -
cornhole
The following article appeared in the online news site the Baltimore Banner on 23 March 2026:
Putting aside the fact that this headline is a wonderful example of the infinite expressiveness of language—expressing a thought that no one would ever have imagined prior to reading it—its use of cornhole is remarkable, for that word is an apparent violator of Gresham’s Law as applied to language—that “bad” meanings will drive out “good” ones. For cornhole is both a noun referring to a wholesome beanbag game, played by children and serious adult competitors alike, and a verb meaning to engage in anal intercourse.
Cornhole is not a case where the sexual sense of the word is restricted to a niche discourse community, so that those who participate in the beanbag game are unaware of its carnal meaning. The sexual sense is much older than the ludic sense and is well known to the wider public. In my own case, I was familiar with the sexual sense long before I learned of the game, which was when I first moved to Texas in 2016, and one of my students proudly admitted, to my confusion and surprise, that they enjoyed cornhole.
The game has recently made an appearance on the HBO series DTF St. Louis, where the protagonists get to know one another over a game of cornhole in the first episode; the episode is even titled “Cornhole.” But despite the sexual theme and plot of the series, in the show the game is simply a game. No one makes a crack about the sexual meaning of cornhole and there are no obvious double entendres involving it. While the writers must have been aware of the double meaning, there is no indication that is the case from watching the show. Cornhole is just about the most innocent aspect of the series.
As the setting for DTF St. Louis indicates, the game of cornhole is especially popular in middle America, apparently less so on the coasts. For those unfamiliar, it is played with a raised and tilted board that has a hole cut in it, and players attempt to toss beanbags into the hole. There is an American Cornhole Association, founded in 2005, that claims to be the “governing body for the sport of cornhole,” but its website seems to exist mainly to sell cornhole-related products. The rival American Cornhole League was founded in 2015; its website, while it also sells merchandise as a side hustle, focuses on organizing and promoting tournaments. And there is even a World Cornhole Organization that has held a Cornhole World Cup competition since 2023.
Equipment for the game of cornhole. Michael Rivera, 2015. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0The game is first described in an 1883 patent under the name Parlor Quoits, the name cornhole being much more recent. That later name is only reliably attested to in the twenty-first century, although it may be a few decades older. I found the following classified ad in the Cleveland, Ohio Plain Dealer from 4 March 1979:
ANYONE KNOWING WHEREABOUTS of Mary Oriti of Parma, cabinet cornhole expert, please call Chuck at [phone number].
Putting aside the mystery of what happened to Mary, I can’t tell whether or not cabinet cornhole is a reference to the game. I’m reasonably confident that it doesn’t refer to the sex act, although it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that Chuck and Mary were into non-vanilla sex.
The earliest clear reference to the game of cornhole is in another Ohio classified ad, this one from 13 July 2001 in the Cincinnati Post:
CORNHOLE—Beanbag style yard game fun/safe for all $50 [phone number].
The Oxford English Dictionary has a first usage citation from 2002, so it’s a good assumption that the name of the game was becoming well established during the opening years of this century.
The sexual sense, on the other hand, dates to over a century ago. The gay slang verb to cornhole is recorded in academic literature in Edward Kempf’s 1920 Psychopathology:
He said the “boys call me chicken and kid me about cornholing me (sodomy) and they call me shitpot.” He was very suspicious of everyone and reluctant to tell me about his case. He was having auditory hallucinations and other vivid sensory disturbances. When asked, using his phrase, if he had been “cornholed,” he said not unless they had “chloroformed” him. He believed that this might have occurred. He admitted having had such sexual relations with his brother when a boy.
And J. E. Lighter’s Historical Dictionary of American Slang cites Henry N. Cary’s Sexual Vocabulary, a typescript from c. 1920, as glossing the noun cornhole as the “anus.” So it’s pretty clear that the sexual sense was in oral circulation in the opening years of the last century.
While the term started out as gay slang at the start of the twentieth century, by century’s end it had become generally familiar to heterosexuals, making its way into mainstream entertainment in the 1990s. The MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-Head featured an alter-ego of Beavis named Cornholio; that is Beavis with his t-shirt pulled over his head and saying things like “I am Cornholio, I need TP for my bunghole.” Cornholio made his debut in season 4, episode 29, “Generation in Crisis,” which aired 14 July 1994.
CornholioAnd the sitcom Arrested Development (S1E3, “Bringing Up Buster,” 16 November 2003) contained a conversation between Lucille Bluth, played by the inimitable Jessica Walter, and her son Michael about her other son, Buster, with a line that will forever live rent free in my head:
LUCILLE: Everyone’s laughing and riding and cornholing except Buster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LntVJf9UG3g
Jason Bateman, who plays Michael, is also one of the stars of DTF St. Louis.
The cornholing double entendre in the Arrested Development scene doesn’t involve the beanbag game. It is playing off another trope in the show, the “Cornballer,” a defective deep fryer for balls of corn meal that burned the hands of anyone who tried to use it. Still the word’s use on the show demonstrates that the sexual sense was well established enough to be a joke on network television at the same time the game of cornhole was rising in popularity.
As to the etymology of the anal intercourse sense, that, like the origin of most slang terms, is more guesswork than fact. There is a literal sense of cornhole, meaning a hole in which a corn seed is planted, that dates to the seventeenth century. It seems likely that the sense of an anus came from this, and the verb from this anatomical sense. The origin of the name of the game is less mysterious, although it too is not known with absolute certainty—the bags were originally filled with dry corn kernels and the hole, obviously, refers to the target hole in the board.
And while the game of cornhole is played in earnest, I would not be entirely surprised if the name was coined as a kind of inside joke, with full knowledge of the carnal sense, a case of Middle America “owning the libs” on the coasts and enjoying the shocked looks on their faces when they hear the name of the game for the first time.
Sources:
Classified Ad. Cincinnati Post (Ohio), 13 July 2001, 12C/10. Readex: America’s Historical Newspapers.
Classified ad. Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), 4 March 1979, Section 7, 1/1. Readex: America’s Historical Newspapers.
“Cornholio.” Beavis and Butt-Head Wiki. Accessed 25 March 2026. Fandom.com.
Green’s Dictionary of Slang, accessed 24 March 2026, s.v. cornhole, n., cornhole, v.
Kempf, Edward J. Psychopathology. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1920, 676. HathiTrust Digital Library.
Lighter, J. E. Historical Dictionary of American Slang, vol. 1 of 2. New York: Random House, 1994, s.v. cornhole, n.
Oxford English Dictionary Online, September 2021, s.v. cornhole, n., cornhole, v.; June 2021, s.v. beanbag, n.
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People Magazine:
What Is Project 2025?
Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public EducationTrump's allies started Project 2025 as a blueprint for marrying church and state at the highest levels of government if he's elected
A sweeping proposal for how Donald Trump should handle a second term in office
has sparked concern for its
💥implications on the role of federal government
💥and its calls to eliminate a number of basic human rights.The 2025 Presidential Transition Project,
more commonly known as #Project2025, released a 900-page manifesto last year titled
🔸"Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise." 🔸The policy guidebook
— compiled by the conservative think tank 🔸Heritage Foundation 🔸in partnership with more than 100 other conservative organizations
— lays out a far-right, Christian nationalist vision for America
that would
🔥corrode the separation of church and state,
🔥replace nonpartisan government employees with Trump loyalists and
🔥bolster the president's authority over independent agencies.Heritage Foundation President Kevin #Roberts,
a rumored candidate for Trump's chief of staff in a second term,
promoted his group's extreme positions during a July interview, saying,
"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain 💥bloodless if the left allows it to be.💥"Shortly after Roberts' controversial interview,
Trump attempted to distance himself from Project 2025,
saying on Truth Social that he knows "nothing" about it and has "no idea who is behind it,"
before adding that he disagrees with some of its propositions.While Project 2025 is not formally a part of Trump's campaign platform,
it has been led and supported by several influential people in his orbit.The project's top leaders all worked in Trump's White House
and a number of the manifesto's contributors also served in the Trump administration,
including but not limited to former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben #Carson and imprisoned former trade adviser Peter #Navarro.Equally damaging to Trump's claim that he is unfamiliar with Project 2025 is that
he worked closely with the 🔸Heritage Foundation🔸 when he was first elected president.He was provided a similar "Mandate for Leadership" back in 2016,
and enacted nearly two-thirds of the group's proposals within his first year in office.The 🔸Heritage Foundation 🔸also reportedly played a behind-the-scenes role on Trump's presidential transition team
and had a significant hand in staffing the administration.Olivia Troye, a former adviser to Mike Pence,
called Trump's denial of Project 2025
"ludicrous" in a CNN interview.“I think what this is telling us is that Donald Trump knows that what is written in this plan is so extreme that it is damaging to his possibility of getting elected,” she said
https://people.com/what-is-project-2025-inside-far-right-plan-trump-presidency-8622964
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Foolishly thought I could look at my past apple account on windows but the dating process of passwords and codes is nothing short of ludicrous, I also live remotely so spent 20 minutes wondering around like a lunatice with my phone on the air waiting for a mf 6 digit code that made no difference #applesucks #windowssucks #outsideisgood
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#Out in the #World: #LGBTQ #news from #Europe and #Asia
#French #President #EmmanuelMacron has #described #protrans #policies as ‘#ludicrous.’ #Leftwing #NewPopularFront’s #proposal to #simplify #legal #genderrecognition, saying, “There are completely ludicrous things, like going to #change #sex in #townhall.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #France #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/06/24/out-in-the-world-lgbtq-news-from-europe-and-asia-30/
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So the D.C. Circuit finally got around to considering Trump's #ludicrous permanent-absolute-criminal-immunity #argument and properly #yeeted it into the sun. Why it took a month to come to a unanimous decision is unspecified.
So that's one less #roadblock between today and #Trump permanently retiring to Club Fed (we can hope).
I can't be the only one to have thought of this, can I?
Oh, Donny boy, the stripes, the stripes are calling.
From pen to pen, the years you will abide. -
Waco, 1993: trent’anni fa la tragedia dimenticata. Assedio, incendio e 76 morti, tra cui 28 bambini. Cosa è davvero accaduto?
🛑 I retroscena della tragedia 👇
https://boomerissimo.it/2023/03/03/waco-trentanni-dopo-lunica-verita-sono-i-morti/
#boomerissimo #wacosiege #TrueCrime #branchdavidians #stragi
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This is such a deadpan scathing and serious takedown of crypto nonsense that you don't feel the cuts from the smashed-ceramic-sharp wit and sarcasm until a few moments later. Wonderful. 24 minutes long but give it 5 and see if it hooks you like it did me.
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August 2024 Playlist!
link:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0LxMptcN6LQhIz8nXeGIPy?si=b9f40aca77104cf1
1 ‘The President Has Been Shot’ – #dEon
2 ‘Some Type Of Skin’ – #AURORA
3 ‘Lo Siento’ – #ReynaTropical
4 ‘Flashflood’ – Romeo Void
5 ‘Ms. America’ – #Bully
6 ‘Less Teeth More Tits’ – #Lunachicks
7 ‘Keep Your Wheels Straight’ – #LauraJaneGrace
8 ‘Bean Fields’ – #ShannonAndTheClams
9 ‘The Devil Jumps Up’ – Paul’s Troubles
10 ‘God Bless’ – #EatGirls...and much more!
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*Tune in to all OpenAI nerd-drama, all the time. #goofy #weird #debacle #comical #ludicrous #hubristic #SiliconValley
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#Web #usability and #accessibility ...
This is from crimethinc.com, but I'm not trying to pick particularly on them. There are many, many, many sites just as bad or worse.
This is a screenshot from an article on their site today, rendered in Firefox (Linux).
See the hair-thin font? See the fact that it's light grey on a white background? There's virtually no contrast between the text and the background.
This is an accessibility nightmare for those with any sort of vision problem. Picking the colour out of the screenshot (I didn't look at the CSS), it appears the text is basically 45% grey. This is ludicrous.
If the font face had some heft, it might be still be half-assed readable with contrast this low.
But as is... If I were to take my contacts out, I wouldn't even be able to tell that this screenshot *had* any of the normal-sized text in it, much less be able to read any of it.
Web designers, I beg you: please consider more than the appearance of what you're creating when you're making design choices.
Remember that not everyone is a 20- or 30-something with near-perfect vision.
Remember that people have cataracts or other types of eye cloudiness which necessitate high-contrast text to be able to read, even if they scale the fonts up by a huge amount.
Remember that vision degrades naturally in people in many ways other than "just wear glasses" can fix.
#WebDesign #WebDesigner #web #design #font #contrast #vision #eye #readability #legibility #unreadable
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CW: NSFW
@RedditGoneWild Classic use of the #Reddit-style ludicrous (because yes, duh, obviously) provocative question to entice post interaction for greater #viral power! #Virality #ViralityEngineering #ClickBaitAsAnArtForm
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#TatarianTuesday #TerrificTuesday #honeysuckle #flower #flowerphotography #floralphotography #floralphotographs #FlowersOfMastodon #foozma73 #pink #outdoorphotography #fotografie #fotografia #photographyisart #PhotographyOnMastodon #fotos #TatarianHoneysuckle #LoniceraTatarica
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If you buy things on #AliExpress, you are going to get scammed every so often. Their buyer protection program is pretty decent, although it can be a bit of a pain to go through the process.
You can increase your chances of getting scammed by buying things where the #deals are too good to be true. When the deals are ludicrously, impossibly good, your chances increase to 100%.
This can be fun. I have bought a few things over the years that were obviously #scams. Once, I spent a few hundred dollars for two tablets that, if they had been real, were selling for about one tenth of what they should have. Seeing how they faked them being new products, when they were actually recycled ancient low-end tablets, was fascinating.
But I generally won't do that. Instead, I buy cheap stuff, trading a few dollars for the fun of seeing what the seller/manufacturer have done. I don't even try to get my money back on these.
So I recently bought a #USB #charger that I've been seeing for months. It's described as a 240W total output, gallium-nitride, USB-PD and QC-3.0 compatible, five-port charger. The genuine article from a reputable manufacturer, if it exists, must cost over CDN $100. This one was ... five bucks.
So I knew it was going to be interesting. It arrived today. It weighed more than expected, but all at one end. The case appears to be ultrasonically welded, so getting it open is destructive.
1/x
#scam #USBPD #QC3 #Chinesium #fake #TooGoodToBeTrue #deal #deals #GaN
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Ulver – Neverland Review By Mystikus HugebeardHappy New Year, ya filthy animals! How about we usher in this stupid year with something that came out on literally the last day of 2025. That’s right, a nice, breezy slice of industrial synthwave and ambient melancholy that sounds like something you’d hear from the radio on a cruisin’ Miami drive, but on like a miserably gloomy day. Which, if you’re familiar with Ulver, the purveyor of today’s jams, is equal parts straight outta left field and yet also predictable. Ulver, the group that authored a smattering of quintessential 90’s Norwegian black metal albums, has since nestled snugly into a restless kaleidoscope of melancholic, avant-garde music that ranges from synthpop, industrial, ambient, acoustic folk, and so on. The Ulver brand is built on consistent unpredictability, each new album a bold new frontier, and Ulver’s newest album, Neverland, continues this tradition.
Neverland shifts across a diverse range of moods through its runtime, never quite landing on a single tonal descriptor I might comfortably use to pigeonhole Neverland, which was surely the intention. It’s at times mysterious, brooding, and melancholic, and defiantly optimistic, musically manifesting in a variety of ways. There’s a strong emphasis on richly textured ambiance (“Weeping Stone,” “Horses of the Plough”), there’s a lot of glitchy industrial beats (“They’re Coming The Birds,” “Hark Hark The Dogs Bark”), and the highlight comes in funky, percussive synthwave (“People of the Hills,” “Fire in the End”). It’s worth noting that apart from some spoken poetry in the opener, Neverland is, in practice, a fully instrumental affair. It’s easy to miss Kristoffer Rygg’s vocals, which were always a highlight of any Ulver record, but Neverland is specifically written in a way that wouldn’t work with vocals. Neverland effectively utilizes free-form compositions, eschewing a structure that would benefit from vocals and focusing on the strength and depth of the musicality.
To that end, Neverland is largely carried by its sound design and tight, snappy electronics. Umpteen albums in and Ulver have fine-tuned their electronic craftsmanship down to a science, keeping Neverland’s percussion straightforward and simple while swathing them in effects and ambiance. Neverland’s songs are generally catchy: the Moonlight Sonata-esque piano sequence that leads into the dramatic, glitchy crescendo of “Elephant Trunk” has stuck with me since my first listen, and “Hark! Hark! The Dogs Do Bark!”‘s bass-heavy beat never disappoints. “People of the Hills” is, for my money Neverland’s strongest song, and one of my new favorite Ulver songs. Staccato synths prelude a disco funk bass-line and grease-slick drums before some guitars drop a ludicrously tasty synthwave chord. It’s a goddamn banger, and like all of Neverland, sounds great, but the sound design is allowed to shine brightest in an ambient track like “Weeping Stone.” It starts with a comfortable rumble of brown noise before the keyboards arrive with grand washes of color and a moonlit melody.
Still, while the ambient tracks sound great, they begin to present an issue in Neverland’s latter half. The momentum constructed in Neverland’s first half falters at the ambient “Horses of the Plough” and “Quivers in the Marrow,” which are placed too closely together, with “Pandora’s Box” in between them. While I like the dreamy feel and slick bass line of “Pandora’s Box,” it begins to drag on repeat listens since the greater part of the song is a lot of build-up. Sometimes I feel that there’s an imbalance between Neverland’s ambiance and beat-driven side. Some of the more immediate tracks, including ones I like such as “They’re Coming! The Birds!” and “People of the Hills,” can feel shorter when I wish they were longer, being slightly padded on either end with ambiance or build-up, which in turn makes the standalone ambient tracks feel longer, inviting impatience for the next, more engaging track. The faltering momentum does frustrate, but I struggle to maintain much annoyance on account of the closer, “Fire in the End.” Tonally similar to “People of the Hills” but injecting a healthy dose of drama into the funk, it closes Neverland on a high note that always leaves me feeling satisfied.Anyway, pacing quibbles aside, Neverland is all in all a success. It’s an easy album to throw on and just sink into thanks to stellar sound design, with tons of highlight beats that will stick with you. While it’s not a career-defining achievement for Ulver, it is another worthy shade to add to Ulver’s ever-growing sonic kaleidoscope, one I would recommend to any who’s ever enjoyed that distinct, melancholic Ulver flavor in the past.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
#2025 #30 #Darkwave #Dec25 #Electronic #Neverland #NorwegianMetal #Pop #Review #Reviews #Synthwave #Ulver
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps
Label: House of Mythology
Websites: facebook | bandcamp
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🚨 New HBO documentary hints Peter Todd might be Satoshi Nakamoto! But Todd says it's 'ludicrous.' Discover the details! #Bitcoin #SatoshiNakamoto #Documentary #petertodd
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🚨 New HBO documentary hints Peter Todd might be Satoshi Nakamoto! But Todd says it's 'ludicrous.' Discover the details! #Bitcoin #SatoshiNakamoto #Documentary #petertodd
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🚨 New HBO documentary hints Peter Todd might be Satoshi Nakamoto! But Todd says it's 'ludicrous.' Discover the details! #Bitcoin #SatoshiNakamoto #Documentary #petertodd
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“Ludicrous” Situation: #JeffreyEpstein Case #Redaction Takes Over #FBI #NewYork Office. The bureau’s New York field office normally chases #drug dealers and #spies. Right now, according to multiple sources, priority one is #redacting the sex trafficker’s case files. None of this should surprise anyone. #corruption #fraud #abuse #illegal #children What government we have remaining is employed full time in covering up #Trump and friends illegal conduct https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/epstein-case-review-fbis-new-york
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“Ludicrous” Situation: #JeffreyEpstein Case #Redaction Takes Over #FBI #NewYork Office. The bureau’s New York field office normally chases #drug dealers and #spies. Right now, according to multiple sources, priority one is #redacting the sex trafficker’s case files. None of this should surprise anyone. #corruption #fraud #abuse #illegal #children What government we have remaining is employed full time in covering up #Trump and friends illegal conduct https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/epstein-case-review-fbis-new-york
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“Ludicrous” Situation: #JeffreyEpstein Case #Redaction Takes Over #FBI #NewYork Office. The bureau’s New York field office normally chases #drug dealers and #spies. Right now, according to multiple sources, priority one is #redacting the sex trafficker’s case files. None of this should surprise anyone. #corruption #fraud #abuse #illegal #children What government we have remaining is employed full time in covering up #Trump and friends illegal conduct https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/epstein-case-review-fbis-new-york