Why do people say "spank the pig" when they refer to playing golf?
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I've heard "spank the monkey" to refer to other things.....never "spank the pig" for golf. \n\nWe say "slap the seed" or "tap the pill" around here.
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People who associate "playing" with the stock market are usually speculators.  Even people who do research in the stock market play by speculation.  Very few people are investors.  The few that fall into the investors category, don't play because it is their life.  \n\nI think the word "play" is used because speculators are completely unsure of winning or losing.  Its like a slot machine for some people.   Buying a stock is like pulling the handle on a slot machine.  The house has an advantage over you.
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It is Cockney 'Back slang' for boy.   This slang was also known as Butcher's Slang and I can confess that it took me nearly 40 years to find out how it originated.   You see the Butcher used to write his different meats and prices on the shop window with white wash.  It might show 'Rib of Beef  £2 per lb'.  If a shopper asked for a Rib of Beef, the butcher would look at the window from the inside and see the writing in reverse.  He would call out to his assistant 'Feeb fo bir' and so on.  The reverse slang continued to gain in order that especially young people could talk about things that the older generation would not understand.  If you asked for the price of something and it was Four pounds, the shopkeeper would say 'a rouf'.   Incidentally, one of the most interesting back slang phrases comes from the US.  It was a New York Irish emigrant family called the Muldoons.  When they did a burglary they would reverse their name in back slang and write it on the walls or windows. Noodlum.   This soon became Hoodlums with criminals becoming known as Hoods.  Sorry for going on but I could not Pots..........................
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The word is "fore"\n\nIt began, back when golf courses were not the manicured gardens that you see today. They often had lots of long grass. So it was easy to lose your ball.\n\nThey had "fore caddies" meaning, front caddie. Usually a young land who would go way out in front and watch where the ball landed. If in the long grass he had a good chance of seeing exactly where it landed.\n\nWhen the golfer hit his shot, seeing that it is headed for the long grass, he would yell "fore" to alert the fore caddy.\n\nToday of course it is used to alert another golfer that a projectile is headed his way and in a hurry.
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The phrase is usually "as likely as flying pigs" or "pigs might fly".  It is used basically to express disbelief at the possibility of a particular event ever occurring.  "oh yea, and pigs might fly."
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You know, now that I listen and recall, Dan Hicks of NBC definitely used that term!\n\nOnly tradition can truly decide this issue.  Television commentators can get it wrong and convince many, but the golfers themselves will never get it wrong.\n\nThe US Open, a fantastic challenging tournament, is NOT the Open Championship.  The British Open, the tournament steeped in the deepest of all traditions is the only championship that be correctly cited as "The Open Championship."
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They're not saying "four!" they're saying "fore!"\n\nNo certain origin for the golf word “Fore!” has ever been agreed. The Shorter Oxford Dictionary records its first use in 1878 as a warning cry to people in front of a golf stroke and, like most people, believes it is an abbreviation of the word ‘before’. There is an earlier reference in 1857 in a glossary of golfing terms. Its origin appears to be bound up with that of the word Caddie.\n\n\nCurrently there are three serious explanations for the origins of term FORE!\n\n \n\nBecause golf balls were expensive, golfers employed ‘Forecaddies’ to stand where the ball might land and reduce the number of lost balls, as is done in tournaments today.  In 1875, Robert Clark mentions that Andrew Dickson performing this role for the Duke of York in 1681 and describes it as “what is now commonly called a fore-caddie”.  It is probable that golfers called to their “Forecaddie!”, who would always be some distance ahead to draw attention to the fact the ball was coming and, in time, this was shortened to “Fore!” The almost contemporaneous appearance of the terms caddie, fore-caddie and fore! supports this theory over the others. \n\nA second explanation derives from the military battle craft of musket days, when rank after rank would fire fusillades, some over the heads of those in front. It was speculated that the term Fore! might have been used to warn those in front to keep their heads down. Modern historians pour cold water on this theory, partly because it is difficult to relate it to a Scottish golf connection and partly because the relevant military terms used do not appear to be connected. However, this theory may in fact be a misunderstanding of the theory below. \n\nThere is a third explanation, which appears utterly implausible, but which is an outside possibility. It derives from a story told by John Knox (1505?-1572) the ‘hellfire’ protestant reformer. He tells the tale, as only ‘hellfire’ preachers can, of someone arriving at the East Port (east gate) of Leith. This story was noticed by Dr Neilson and subsequently reported by Robert Browning in his book 'History of Golf’ (1955) thus: \n  \n\n‘One among many comes to the East Port of Leith, where lay two great pieces of ordnance, and where their enemies were known to be, and cried to his fellows that were at the gate making defence: "Ware Before!" and so fires one great piece, and thereafter the other.' \n\n\n \n\nSo “Fore!” could be derived from an artillery term warning gunners to stand clear. This last explanation means, firstly, that the term “Ware Before!” (“Beware Before!”) was foreshortened to “Fore!” (rather than “Ware!”) and, secondly, it must have been sufficiently well known to be used by golfers.
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It's slang from the UK & Ireland, a made up phrase to avoid cursing when surprised or annoyed.\n\nIt's also a slang term for a sexual position.
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The question is, does anybody really know what PIG stands for?\nP= Pride\nI =Integrity\nG= Guts\nand half the people in the world dont have any when it comes to trying to control stupid people, so what if we like donuts, its free, due to alot of stores and donut shops want us to protect them from a robbery or anything else that could happen.
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It looks like Dutch words with extra letters in them. In Dutch it could read something like, " 'n gras.....fuk me greata sombito...'n idioto na 'n fuk me wou.. karla soen dog troe 'n fuk on doer karla fuk", meaning something to the effect of, "a grass...f*ck the great someone....an idiot from a f*cken way..karla sees the day coming a f*ck on the karla f*ck. It makes no sense and the way it is put is just a whole lot of rubbish.
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Well if you are trying to find out the phrase a person being spanked also, it is pretty simple. It usually means, that a person is being punished by their parent by getting slapped a lot. If this phrase is repeated  on the same person it means that the child is disobedient, or the parent is abusing the shild for no reason.
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Did the word "golf" originate as an acronym for "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden"? That's a common old wives' tale. Or, in this case, more likely an old husband's tale.\n\nNo, "golf" is not an acronym for "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden." If you've ever heard that, forget it immediately. Better yet, find the person who told you and let them know it's not true.\n\nLike most modern words, the word "golf" derives from older languages and dialects. In this case, the languages in question are medieval Dutch and old Scots.\n\nThe medieval Dutch word "kolf" or "kolve" meant "club." It is believed that word passed to the Scots, whose old Scots dialect transformed the word into "golve," "gowl" or "gouf."\n\nBy the 16th Century, the word "golf" had emerged.\n\nDon't believe anyone that says it stands for gentleman only, ladies forbidden. I did a whole report on the history of golf so I know.
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Golf has become the game of choice for business interested people today.  What other event could you do where you can talk openly with another person while waiting for the group ahead of you to clear the green?  Just because it is so widely played by so many people it has become common, not cliche', so enjoy your game and I hope you pick up the tab for anyone playing with you, how about a game next week?  Will you spot me 5 strokes?
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Hello David\n\nGolf is a game of honesty and integrity, it is the only sport that one calls a penalty on themselves even when playing alone. Golf teaches ettequette, manors and respect for others and for the game its self.\nIt is one of the few games you can play poorly and still enjoy it and its a game for all ages, even some blind folks play golf.\n\nIn short, golf is good.\n\nLeon
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It comes from the early 1800s in London.  The term "pig" for a contemptable person was around a long time before that.  Particularly, the name refers to a certain group of Police called the Bow Street Runners that criminals referred to as China Street Pigs.
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Men go through their entire lives, from very early childhood, all the way to their deathbed being called pigs, by all the women in their life that they care the most about. Mother, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, girlfriends, wife and daughters. And then when we ARE pigs, you get irate & indignante with us. It doesn't make sense.\n\nBut for the truth of it, we men are simple creatures, and desire simple things. You say role-playing, and mean pretending to be someone, or something that we are not in real life, to increase sexual tension. But to us, role-playing means turning you over in the middle of sex, and trying a new position.\n\nTo quote Jeff Foxworthy:\n"Men want a beer, and to see something naked"\n"Baby you look real pretty in that, now take it off"\n\nYou really want to get your man going, it's easy, when he least expects it, jump in his lap naked, and scream out " DO-ME DO-ME DO-ME". I promise you WILL get a response.
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I know you're looking for jokes, I just wanted to be serious a second and point out that golf doesn't actually stand for anything.\n\nhttp://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/golf.htm\n\n(Cool, I'm glad it wasn't a bringdown from a joke post.)