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David R. Preston

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Jul 22, 1992, 3:00:16 PM7/22/92
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The hanky code consists of some 60 colors worn in the back pocket to
signify what a person is interested in, sexually.

Some aren't used much, some are redundant, some are facetious. However,
there are about a dozen that I see regularly in San Francisco that people
might want to be familiar with if they visit a leather/levi bar. Some of
these are also mentioned here and in other newsgroups. Without any attempt
to refine the language, these are:

COLOR LEFT RIGHT
Black Heavy SM Tops Heavy SM Bottom
Grey Bondage (or light SM) Top Bondage Bottom
Red Fist Fucker Fist Fuckee
Purple Piercer Piercee
Teal Blue Cock & Ball Torturer Cock & Ball Torturee
Light Pink Dildo Fucker Dildo Fuckee
Light Blue Wants Head Expert Cocksucker
Navy Blue Fucker Fuckee
Yellow Pisser Pissee
White Beat My Meat (masturbation) I'll Do Us Both
Hunter Green Daddy Hunting for Daddy
Checkered Safe Sex Top Safe Sex Bottom
(checkered in various colors, as appropriate)
Orange Anything Anytime Nothing Now

Meanings change over time. For example, orange used to mean:
left - anything top, right - anything bottom. Checkered is a fairly
recent addition and is still being defined. Light blue suffers the
same ambiguity as French:active/passive, i.e. some people wear it on
the left as meaning they want to *actively* suck cock....

Obviously, the colors just give you some idea of what a person is
interested in; they shouldn't be taken as necessary or sufficient to
establish a relationship.

Most of the rest of these I've seldom seen anyone wear (and I wouldn't
know what some of these colors look like....).

Robin's Egg Blue 69-er 69-ee
Medium Blue Cop Cop-sucker
Dark Pink Tit Torturer Tit Torturee
Dark Red 2-handed Fister 2-handed Fistee
Maroon Likes Menstruating Women Woman Menstruating
Mauve Into Navel Worshippers Has Navel Fetish
Magenta Suck My Pits Armpit Freak
Lavender Likes Drag Drag
Pale Yellow Spits Drool Crazy
Mustard Has 8" or more Wants a Big One
Gold 2 Looking for One One looking for 2
Apricot Two Tons of Fun Chubby Chaser
Coral Suck My Toes Shrimper
Rust A Cowboy His Horse
Fuschia Spanker Spankee
Kelly Green Hustler John
Olive Drab Military Top Military Bottom
Lime Green Dines off Tricks (Sex w/Food) Dinner Plate
Beige Rimmer Rimmee
Brown Scat Top Scat Bottom
Brown Lace Has Uncut Dick Likes Uncut Dick
Brown Satin Circumsized Likes Circumsized Cock
Charcoal Latex Fetish, Top Latex Fetish, Bottom
Gray Flannel Actually Owns a Suit Likes Men in Suits
Cream Cums in Scum Bags Sucks It Out
Red/White Stripe Shaver Shavee
Black/White Stripe Likes Black Bottoms Likes Black Tops
Brown/White Stripe Likes Latino Bottoms Likes Latino Tops
Yellow/White Stripe Likes Oriental Bottoms Likes Oriental Tops
White Lace Likes White Bottoms Likes White Tops
Paisley Wears Boxer Shorts Likes Boxer Shorts
Fur Bestialist Top Bestialist Bottom
Silver Lame Starfucker Star
Gold Lame Likes Bottom Musclemen Likes Top Musclemen
Leopard Has Tattoos Likes Tattoos
Tan Smokes Cigars Likes Cigars
Teddy Bear Cuddler Cuddlee
Kewpie Doll Chicken Chicken Hawk
Dirty Jockstrap Wears a Dirty Jock Sucks 'em Clean
Zip-Lock Baggy Has Drugs Looking for Drugs
Kleenex Stinks Sniffs
Handywipe Gives HOT Motor Oil Massage Wears it Well
Chamois Rides a Motorcycle Likes Bikers
Cocktail Napkin Bartender Bar Groupie
Doily Tearoom Top Tearoom Bottom
Mosquito Netting Top for Sex Outdoors Bottom for Same
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Ellen Keyne Seebacher

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Jul 29, 1992, 6:17:35 PM7/29/92
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In article <1308@dosbears> d...@dosbears.uucp writes:
>Robin's Egg Blue 69-er 69-ee

It's quite a trick, working out the difference between the two.

(Is this like "let's do 70: you do me and I'll owe you one"?)

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Jess Anderson

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Jul 30, 1992, 6:34:09 AM7/30/92
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In article <1992Jul29.2...@midway.uchicago.edu>
el...@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

>In article <1308@dosbears> d...@dosbears.uucp writes:
>>Robin's Egg Blue 69-er 69-ee

>It's quite a trick, working out the difference between the two.

>(Is this like "let's do 70: you do me and I'll owe you one"?)

Well, 68 would be more like it.

Only 69-joke I know:
Q. What's the square root of 69?
A. Ate something.

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Joseph Francis

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Jul 30, 1992, 12:48:41 PM7/30/92
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In article <1992Jul30.1...@macc.wisc.edu> ande...@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>
>Only 69-joke I know:
>Q. What's the square root of 69?
>A. Ate something.

Q. What's the square root of 69i?
A. i 8 something.

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Nelson Minar

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Jul 30, 1992, 6:57:10 PM7/30/92
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In article <1992Jul30....@spdcc.com> j...@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis) writes:
>Q. What's the square root of 69i?
>A. i 8 something.

Well, not really:

Q. What's the square root of 69i?

A. sqrt(2)/2 + sqrt(2)/2 i 8 something

I think Jojo's version is funnier, although you might be able to pull
out a good squirt pun.
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Robert Lodenkamper

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Jul 30, 1992, 12:17:20 PM7/30/92
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In article <1992Jul30....@reed.edu> nel...@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:

In article <1992Jul30....@spdcc.com> j...@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis) writes:
>Q. What's the square root of 69i?
>A. i 8 something.

Well, not really:

Q. What's the square root of 69i?
A. sqrt(2)/2 + sqrt(2)/2 i 8 something

Actually, it should be A. 1/2*(sqrt(2) + i*sqrt(2)) 8 something.
Unfortunately this has little entertainment value.

However, A. 8 something < 45 degrees is also right, and has some
possibilities.

It's midway (as it were) between sqrt(69) = 8 something < 0 degrees
and sqrt(-69) = 8 something < 90 degrees.

- Bob

Don Goldberg

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Jul 30, 1992, 6:56:31 PM7/30/92
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In article <1992Jul30....@spdcc.com> j...@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis)
writes:


No No NO!

The last Q should be: What's the square root of -69?

Jojo...we're gonna revoke your Caltech degree!

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Elaine Richards

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Jul 30, 1992, 5:01:25 PM7/30/92
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>In article <1308@dosbears> d...@dosbears.uucp writes:
>>Robin's Egg Blue 69-er 69-ee
>It's quite a trick, working out the difference between the two.
>(Is this like "let's do 70: you do me and I'll owe you one"?)

That's going to be my new .sig file.

Brilliant!

ER
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Joseph Francis

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Jul 31, 1992, 10:23:13 AM7/31/92
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In article <1992Jul30....@spdcc.com> j...@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis) writes:
>In article <1992Jul30.1...@macc.wisc.edu> ande...@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>>
>>Only 69-joke I know:
>>Q. What's the square root of 69?
>>A. Ate something.
>
>Q. What's the square root of 69i?
>A. i 8 something.

I knew it didn't look right:

Joseph Francis

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Jul 31, 1992, 11:08:37 AM7/31/92
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In article <1992Jul30.2...@cheshire.oxy.edu> d...@oxy.edu (Don Goldberg) writes:
>In article <1992Jul30....@spdcc.com> j...@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis)
>writes:
>> In article <1992Jul30.1...@macc.wisc.edu> ande...@macc.wisc.edu
>(Jess Anderson) writes:
>> >
>> >Only 69-joke I know:
>> >Q. What's the square root of 69?
>> >A. Ate something.
>>
>> Q. What's the square root of 69i?
>> A. i 8 something.
>>
>> --
>> US Jojo; damp, slighly soiled, but tasty nonetheless.
>
>
>No No NO!
>
>The last Q should be: What's the square root of -69?

I feel like I'm going to disappear into a hell-spiral of "NYAA NYAA"
messages even after I looked at the original posting and realized it
was wrong, and have received mail about it, and, and. (Breathless).

Chris Adami

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Jul 31, 1992, 1:59:25 PM7/31/92
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In article <1992Jul30....@reed.edu> nel...@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:
>In article <1992Jul30....@spdcc.com> j...@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis) writes:
>>Q. What's the square root of 69i?
>>A. i 8 something.
>
>Well, not really:
>
>Q. What's the square root of 69i?
>A. sqrt(2)/2 + sqrt(2)/2 i 8 something
>

Now I *really* don't want to sound patronizing.... but Nelson forgot the
parantheses here, so we just *cannot* let it go. You know, for all these
poor undergrads trying to figure out how to reproduce the result. There-
fore, let it be known:

sqrt(69i)= (sqrt(2)/2 + i sqrt(2)/2) * 8 something

and we finally managed to make it obscure. That's math for you.

Motss content: What's a queer root?

Quote of the day: ``If God had wanted the American people to vote, she
would have given them a candidate''

Current mood: I wanna go back to Portland.


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Mark Morrissey

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Jul 31, 1992, 7:49:15 PM7/31/92
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In article <1992Jul31.1...@dirac.physics.sunysb.edu> ch...@dirac.physics.sunysb.edu (Chris Adami) writes:
>
>Current mood: I wanna go back to Portland.

Portland? ;-)

--mark

Ri Jen Chou

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Jul 31, 1992, 11:17:38 PM7/31/92
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ma...@ogicse.ogi.edu (Mark Morrissey) writes:

>Portland? ;-)
*PORTLAND*, y'all??????????


Ri-Jen

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David R. Preston

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Aug 2, 1992, 4:45:08 AM8/2/92
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In article <1992Jul30.1...@macc.wisc.edu> ande...@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>
>In article <1992Jul29.2...@midway.uchicago.edu>
>el...@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>>In article <1308@dosbears> d...@dosbears.uucp writes:
>>>Robin's Egg Blue 69-er 69-ee
>
>>It's quite a trick, working out the difference between the two.

Hmm, I saw a scene in a porno flick once where one guy takes the
other and turns him upside down and they 69 standing up (well, at
least the guy standing up is standing up, but you know what I mean.).
In that case it was fairly easy to tell who was the -er and who was
the -ee. But all seriousness aside, in the sub-sub-culture that takes
this stuff seriously, a "top" who wanted to 69 would wear the hanky
on the left and a "bottom" would wear it on the right.

>>(Is this like "let's do 70: you do me and I'll owe you one"?)
>
>Well, 68 would be more like it.

Indeed.

>Only 69-joke I know:
>Q. What's the square root of 69?
>A. Ate something.

That's the only one you know? I guess we can be thankful for that :-)

My favorite is from George Carlin:
Q. What is 71?
A. 69 with a finger up each other's ass.

Of course, it's just like a straight man to think in terms of *one*
finger....



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Arnold M Zwicky

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Aug 2, 1992, 11:11:11 AM8/2/92
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what's important is the emotional content for the participants, not
the way it looks. i believe there are quite a few guys who don't much
care for side-by-side, or equal-opportunity, 69 (the version that
suits me best, because it's the only one i'm *comfortable* in, though
to tell the truth, 69-ing is a minor pleasure for me), because the
emotional content is wrong. they prefer instead to have one guy on
top (you don't have to be into tops and bottoms to feel the way i'm
describing, by the way). the act is then conceptualized primarily as
the guy on top face-fucking the guy on the bottom, that is, as giving
his cock to the guy on the bottom. the top guy's cocksucking is a
kind of extra event, designed to increase the bottom guy's pleasure in
his cocksucking; it's concptualized more as
helping-your-fuck-buddy-get-off or something of the sort. (this is
not inconsistent with the top guy's really being into cocksucking, or
in fact with the top guy's taking the other role on other occasions.
no one said only *one* thing is going on emotionally during sex.
the truth is far otherwise.)

sex is a complicated business. for which we can all be thankful.

arnold


Tim Pierce

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Aug 3, 1992, 2:12:39 AM8/3/92
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>Motss content: What's a queer root?

I'm not even going to touch that one. Well, maybe, but you've got to
ask nicely.

>Quote of the day: ``If God had wanted the American people to vote, she
> would have given them a candidate''

If God had wanted people to go around naked, they would be born that
way.

If God had wanted there to be bisexuals, He would have made two
genders!

For some reason (stuck on your compiler, Tim?) I have been following
the discussion -- such as it is -- in alt.wanted.moslem.gay. One
person there made the really fascinating argument against
homosexuality that Vince Manis expounded on a few months ago:

"You can see for yourself that not even animals engage in this sort of
behavior."

followed by

"Come on, we are better than animals."

I didn't believe at the time that anyone actually used these two
arguments simultaneously. Now I know the truth. There is a God, and
He is Mel Brooks.

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adolphson

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Aug 3, 1992, 3:24:19 AM8/3/92
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You rang?

In article <1992Aug3.0...@amhux2.amherst.edu>
twpi...@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
[...]


|
| For some reason (stuck on your compiler, Tim?) I have been following
| the discussion -- such as it is -- in alt.wanted.moslem.gay. One

I gave it up after a day or two. It's so idiotic.

| person there made the really fascinating argument against
| homosexuality that Vince Manis expounded on a few months ago:
|
| "You can see for yourself that not even animals engage in this sort of
| behavior."
|
| followed by
|
| "Come on, we are better than animals."

Oh dear. Someone used both in the same argument? Whenever I hear
either side of that argument I'm reminded of something from the
_Saturnalia_ of Macrobius. A grumpy old fart with a rather straight-
laced view on sex asked a racy noblewoman (Popillia Laenates, in case
you want to know her name) why it is that animals only engage in
sex when they want to conceive. "Because they're animals" ["bestiae
enim sunt"], was Popillia's sensible reply.

Arne

Shawn Hicks

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Aug 4, 1992, 3:40:44 AM8/4/92
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In article <1332@dosbears>, d...@dosbears.UUCP (David R. Preston) writes:


>My favorite is from George Carlin:
>Q. What is 71?
>A. 69 with a finger up each other's ass.
>
>Of course, it's just like a straight man to think in terms of *one*
>finger....

hmmm, guess *he* didn't flag red.


Shawn, who never wears hankies because he doesn't want to limit himself
and can't fit more than 6 in one pocket.

George Dalton Madison

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Aug 4, 1992, 10:24:28 PM8/4/92
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Shawn Hicks writes:
>Shawn, who never wears hankies because he doesn't want to limit himselfand
>can't fit more than 6 in one pocket.

Isn't this what ORANGE is for? ;-{)##]

I myself have a custom four-color hankie: Yellow, Dark Blue,
Grey and Light Blue.

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Michael L. R. Simpson

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Aug 5, 1992, 1:05:54 AM8/5/92
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In article <1992Jul30....@reed.edu> nel...@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:
>I think Jojo's version is funnier, although you might be able to pull
>out a good squirt pun.

Well, that should certainly be a feta-ccompli.

(Probably only recognizable to CON attendees.)

Mike
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Josh Simon

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Aug 5, 1992, 2:09:41 PM8/5/92
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In article <1992Aug5.0...@spdcc.com> msim...@spdcc.com (Michael L. R.

Ouch. I still don't believe we let him (was it Dave?) get away with that.
We should've boiled him in olive oil for that, or made him tip the belly
dancer.... ;-)

-j
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Gerry Swetsky

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In article <63...@cup.portal.com> Fu...@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
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>I myself have a custom four-color hankie: Yellow, Dark Blue,
>Grey and Light Blue.

And in which pocket do you wear this hankie, George?

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George Dalton Madison

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Aug 11, 1992, 6:23:03 AM8/11/92
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Gerry Swetsky writes:
>Fu...@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
>>I myself have a custom four-color hankie: Yellow, Dark Blue,
>>Grey and Light Blue.
>
> And in which pocket do you wear this hankie, George?

Didn't you notice? ;-{)##]

Actually, to be truly accurate, that hankie would go in the
right pocket -- but duplicate yellow and grey hankies would
have to go in the LEFT pocket -- where, if a certain friend
of mine has his way in teaching me some new Arts, they may
be joined by a *red* hankie.

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() sex.
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