Interest in Butch Codes
Melinda Shore
OhSoButch <ohso...@aol.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>I was just wondering if anyone would like to contribute to a rough project
How timely - I was just thinking that furniture tossing
sounds like an enormously butch activity. Don't forget
to include it in the code.
Think of the possibilities! I have a very butch truck, but
it's not a butch color (*electric* blue). On the other
hand, it has no carpeting or floor mats. That's butch,
right? Also, there's Melinda's Law of Reciprocal
Butchness: the less butch you really are the more butch
your toys need to be (think garden implements).
And let's never forget that if you worry about being butch
you probably aren't. There's got to be some way to code
that, yes?
(oblesbiangardenimplements: lopping shears)
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I don't speak for Cornell.
If you send me harassing email, I'll probably post it
Melinda Shore
Melinda Shore <sh...@tc.cornell.edu> wrote:
>In article <3j2pm4$e...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
>OhSoButch <ohso...@aol.com> wrote:
>>Hello,
>>I was just wondering if anyone would like to contribute to a rough project
I completely forgot to mention - a *truly* butch code
wouldn't contain any punctuation (especially not asterisks
or exclamation points).
La! What fun!
Leith Chu
>I was just wondering if anyone would like to contribute to a rough project
>BearCodes).
Butch codes. Ohyeahsure. I can see it now:
Bit^H^Hutch Code v1.0
Butch Code (BC, as in Neanderthal) was created to give butch men and women a
handy way to describe themselves in their .sig files. Although modelled
after the NBCS and SmurfCode (tm), it is not orthogonal to any other code
(butch people do things their own way).
The main variable in BC is G (we were gonna use B for butch or T for
testosterone, but some pansy-assed bears and twinks got to 'em already,
and we didn't want anyone to mistake us for *those* kindsa people) as in
grunt. It's a given that all butch people grunt.
Attached to this is a numeric modifier that indicates the degree of grunting.
G0 - can spell "grunt"
G1 - grunted at least once sometime during their childhood
G2 - grunts during outpatient surgery (no anesthetics, please)
G3 - grunts occasionally when pretending to pay attention to someone
G4 - grunts during sex (easier than remembering your partner's first name)
G5 - grunts while thinking about sex
G6 - grunts while thinking
G7 - grunts at children and small animals
G8 - grunts before doing or saying anything
G9 - grunts to hear the sound of his/her own grunt
G10 - grunts once for yes, twice for no
Other variables describe the various aspects of butchness which apply to
the individual. Each may be followed by modifiers to further define the
quality. These include + (grunt), - (grunt-grunt), and ! (*GRUNT*). "v"
indicates that the quality changes, depending on the amount of
testosterone being produced that day.
MODIFIERS:
j - job butchness
j--- fragrance technician at Bloomingdale's
j-- waiter in chi-chi restaurant
j- office worker
j unemployed
j+ personal trainer
j++ uniform wearer (except religious, health care, and beauty-related)
j+++ contact sport athlete
j! construction worker
h - home butchness (includes location, architecture, and decor)
h--- Beverly Hills mansion with designer everything
h-- condominium with view of downtown; collection of Impressionist art
h- suburbian split-level; faux-marble and tromp-l'oeil walls
h subletting, rooming (living with Mom is an automatic h---)
h+ fixer-upper in older neighbourhood; sheets on windows
h++ basement apartment near downtown; weights, tv, garbage
h+++ studio in meat-packing district; plywood on windows
h! tent in jungle with mosquito netting
f - food butchness (what do you cook and eat?)
f--- does it have expensive ingredients without English names?
f-- does you need electric kitchen gadgets to make it?
f- where are those fruit moulds?
f who cares? (dieters = f---)
f+ does it have meat and potatoes in it always?
f++ do you need electric tools to cut it?
f+++ where's the can opener?
f! don't cook. EVER.
c - butch clothes
c--- sequins held together by string
c-- socks to match every sweater
c- it's got a little alligator on it
c it was clean
c+ jeans and t-shirts with beer brand names on them
c++ jeans, flannel shirts, construction boots
c+++ motorcycle or cowboy gear
c! who cares if it's clean? it fits (sorta)
[...]
I'd go on, but this much testosterone melts my keyboard.
Leith "Butchette" Chu
Leith Chu, panda cub and | Estne volumen in toga,
dizzy Chinese leather smurf | an solum tibi libet me videre?
Charlottetown, PEI, Canada | B1 h f- t rv c++!d g++ l++ k+ sv p
lc...@bud.peinet.pe.ca | S7 b+ g+(-) l(-) y/ z n+ o x+ a+ u v+ j++
David A. Kaye
: How timely - I was just thinking that furniture tossing
: sounds like an enormously butch activity. Don't forget
: to include it in the code.
A mahogany-colored hanky in the left pockets indicates a furniture
pitcher; in the right pocket, a catcher. Black hanky for bowling balls,
black with white stripe for tires...
--
d...@crl.com "Other men live to eat, while
San Francisco I eat to live" -- Socrates
Sammie L. Foss
sh...@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes:
>Think of the possibilities! I have a very butch truck, but
>it's not a butch color (*electric* blue). On the other
>hand, it has no carpeting or floor mats. That's butch,
>right?
does have a chrome tool-box. No carpet, no floor mats, no bed
liner.
>Also, there's Melinda's Law of Reciprocal
>Butchness: the less butch you really are the more butch
>your toys need to be (think garden implements).
auto, or a PansyPink(tm) garden implement?
Sammie
David Casti
: Speaking of codes, is there a list of _all_ codes anywhere?
No. However, the QRD does have a large collection and solicits additions.
You'll find them in the electronic/sig-codes section. Send mail to
in...@qrd.org to get a copy of the FAQ, including instructions for how to
access the QRD.
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the merrow ti ti
: (oblesbiangardenimplements: lopping shears)
lopping shears, of course, being what the truly butch lesbian uses to trim
her crewcut, right? :)
-beth, not particularly butch or femme or anything, but fairly skilled with
lopping shears (but not for haircuts).....
--
Beth
bsli...@unix.amherst.edu
"Mother Nature, Father Time, Used to be good friends of mine. But now we've
put them in a home, filed under "uses unknown" - Pop Will Eat Itself
Barbara H. Donahue
Sammie L. Foss <S...@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> wrote:
>In article <3j2t28$lv...@theory.tc.cornell.edu>
>sh...@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes:
>
>>Think of the possibilities! I have a very butch truck, but
>>it's not a butch color (*electric* blue). On the other
>>hand, it has no carpeting or floor mats. That's butch,
>>right?
>
>Hmmm...little pick-up is not very butch, but it *is* black and it
>does have a chrome tool-box. No carpet, no floor mats, no bed
>liner.
<sputter> WHAT?! Your little pick-up (TM) is _not very butch_?
I believe "How Butch of Her" was the first thing I thought of when
I saw it...And now you tell me its not very butch?
Damn, just when I thought I had all of this butch/femme stuff figured out.
Barbara, confused again.