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Calling all lexicologists! - 8/16/2005 9:33:26 PM   
Veav


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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/16/2005 9:41:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		Offhand I'd say it's because it usually involves people having food, I believe it's a contraction of "meeting" and "lunch."

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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/16/2005 9:57:48 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Veav
"Munch"... why?


On version relates a story something like this... The first "munch" was called a "BurgerMunch" and was started in the SanFrancisco Bay area by a member of alt.sex.bondage back in the early 90's.

As Emeraldslave mentioned above, for the most part, people relate to the combination of Meeting and lunch. It works either way.

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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/16/2005 11:56:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Munch as a noun:

Something to eat; a meal, a snack. Also: an act of munching.

example of early usage:

1819 T. THOMPSON Canny Newcassel in Coll. of Songs 9 Wiv a' the stravagin aw wanted a munch.

Munch as a verb:

To eat (food) with a continuous and noticeable chewing action; to eat eagerly and audibly, or with evident enjoyment; to make a snack of.

1425 (c1385) CHAUCER Troilus & Criseyde I. 914 Some wold monche [v.rr. muchche, mucche, muche, meche] her brede alon, lying in bed and make hem for to grone.



exact definitions and examples thanks to the OED


so i suppose the natural assumption would be .. because it involves food.


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"Munch"... why?




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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/17/2005 12:00:14 AM   
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The first munch (in April, 1992 IIRC) was announced by STella in a post to the newsgroup alt.sex.bondage. She called it a burgermunch because the first one was held at a hamburger take-out place named Kirk's in Palo Alto.

The rest is history.

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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/17/2005 12:06:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well! It seems I was reading too deeply into it. I was thinking along the lines of, "because people get the munchies after expending a lot of energy doing WIITWD..." }:D

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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/17/2005 12:54:01 AM   
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Well! It seems I was reading too deeply into it. I was thinking along the lines of, "because people get the munchies after expending a lot of energy doing WIITWD..." }:D



ahaha. maybe there just wasn't enough room to invite everyone over for a shower, so they opted for fries and shakes?

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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/17/2005 2:41:25 AM   
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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/17/2005 5:11:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		Lexicologists! Ahh now having read the posts I have it figured out. Lexicologist = Word Mechanic.. Ahah! And here’s me thing that a lexicologist was a left handed proctologist..

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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/17/2005 7:03:42 AM   
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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/17/2005 8:57:19 AM   
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“Then why are you smiling?”
“Because I know something you don't know!”
“And what is that?”
“I... am not left-handed!” *switches hands on the speculum*

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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/17/2005 9:08:58 AM   
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We go to meetings. Might be nice to call them meetings, then people would just think were drunks.

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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/17/2005 10:54:15 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Veav

“I admit it, you are better than I am!”
“Then why are you smiling?”
“Because I know something you don't know!”
“And what is that?”
“I... am not left-handed!” *switches hands on the speculum*



Ha! - And there was I under the impression that you were Mr Freeman - not Inigo Montoya...

ah..... mandy patinkin....*swoons*


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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/17/2005 11:23:58 AM   
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ORIGINAL: IronBear
Lexicologists! Ahh now having read the posts I have it figured out. Lexicologist = Word Mechanic.. Ahah! And here’s me thing that a lexicologist was a left handed proctologist..
Was that based on what they do or how they act? M


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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/17/2005 9:32:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hmmm ... I'm not questioning this, since I don't know the answer, but I remember that a Boston BBS called Argus (now defunct, like all BBS's) had something very much like munches even before that. I was sure they were called "munches," but now I'm starting to wonder.

Oh, and they were vanilla.

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ORIGINAL: sfgrrl

Bingo!

The first munch (in April, 1992 IIRC) was announced by STella in a post to the newsgroup alt.sex.bondage. She called it a burgermunch because the first one was held at a hamburger take-out place named Kirk's in Palo Alto.

The rest is history.

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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/17/2005 11:29:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was a member of Argus (and Channel One) and I can't recall there ever being any munches there.

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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/18/2005 12:01:01 AM   
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ORIGINAL: BlkTallFullfig

quote:

ORIGINAL: IronBear
Lexicologists! Ahh now having read the posts I have it figured out. Lexicologist = Word Mechanic.. Ahah! And here’s me thing that a lexicologist was a left handed proctologist..
Was that based on what they do or how they act? M


A delicate mix of both

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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/18/2005 9:21:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		Argus used to meet every once in a while in the food court of that mall in Cambridge--I forget what it's called. (Maybe it's Cambridgeside? Haven't been back to Boston in a while.) And maybe they didn't call it a "munch," but that's what I remember.

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I was a member of Argus (and Channel One) and I can't recall there ever being any munches there.


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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/18/2005 10:08:58 AM   
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RE: Calling all lexicologists! - 8/18/2005 10:17:30 AM   
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