Thursday, March 15, 2012
Butt Or Buck Friendships?
I can easily see this conversation happening, which is something of the beauty of friendship. Seriously. I am deeply thankful for the people in my life that I can say anything with and to whom I can ask those “Better-not-ask-that-because-you’ll-get-ridiculed” questions. While we’ve all been made wonderfully well-off with God and each other, believing that and actually enjoying the fruit of Christ’s labor of love is often difficult. Maybe being real and asking questions like the one below will assist you in your friendships.
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Frank Friedmann preached a sermon on this once. Naked=when you don't have any clothes on; butt naked=when you don't have any clothes on and you're doing something you shouldn't; buck neked=when you don't have any clothes on, you're doing something wrong, and you get caught.
ReplyDeleteThis is so funny! I have heard people say it both ways and have often wondered the same thing!
ReplyDeleteMore for the entomology: Hunters used to say "naked as a buck," referring to the beauty of deer in all his naturalness as he was in the hunter's sights. It is one of my absolutely-drives-me-crazy peeves that we've rolled into "butt naked," largely because few know that a male deer is called a buck.
ReplyDeleteAwesome - few things more valuable in life than being afforded the grace to screw up (in my case, a lot!).
ReplyDeleteJackie Hyatt Lacy You are so right!! True friends can ask the "tough" questions! LOL! I am sharing this!! I just have to ask...which is it? :D
ReplyDeleteI don't know! It might be debatable. . .maybe we'll find out.
ReplyDeleteI love entomology: One theory backed by the American Heritage Dictionary proposes the original phrase was actually "butt naked." The phrase was then cleaned up to "buck naked" so it could be used in polite company. A post on a message board forwards the idea that "buck" in this sense is an adverb meaning "stark" or "completely."
ReplyDeleteBrit wordsmith Michael Quinon has another theory. He's of the notion that "buck" and "buff," another term to describe nudity, are both derived from buckskin and buffalo hides. He argues that buff leather is tan in color, much like the color of the Europeans' skin after being in the sun. This led to the expression "to be in the buff," or naked. Thomas Dekker was the first to go on record with the term when he said in 1602, "I go in stag, in buff." The assumption is that "buck naked" has a similar derivation from buckskin.
Another one that is cool is boatload vs buttload (a local saying here) I have not looked that one up yet. I grew up with boatload and my husband grew up with buttload. Crazy how these sayings develop in different areas of the world.
ReplyDeleteSee?! Now THIS is Christian fellowship. . .at least it's the kind I know and love!
ReplyDeleteI find that there are some questions which is of an 'unspoken' rule that we are not suppose to ask in church Or rather...some christians don't want to be seem to be "rocking the boat" in their traditions and things pertaining to certain questionable church practices. I find that sad because it only shows that they want to be comfortable and settle for respectability. I am not saying that one should always find things to debate about. All I am saying is that we should speak the truth in love and ask in love.
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