In a desperate attempt to turn the conversation away from its current squickfest, I must report that Nutty's mention of MacGyver reminds me that I heard the word "foamy" on the radio last Sunday. Used properly and everything.

A radio host on Air America was interviewing the co-anchor of some TV talk/politics/screamy show or other; she was named Rachel or Raquel or something of the sort, and was pretty and smart and lively and the radio host was obviously quite taken with her. He teased her about the coffee she was gulping down and asked if it was okay for him to call her Latte. She said that'd be lovely, she'd never had a real nickname before and she rather liked the sound of it. And he said, with a perfectly Buffista inflection to his voice:

It just suits you. You're so foamy.

I got so excited I squeed and called Hec to babble about it; he made me promise to tell erinaceous, and then I promptly forgot until now.

Is this enough to get erinaceous to bookify the word, or do we need at least one additional independent usage?

There's nothing worse than bestiality, except bestiality puns.

Dude, don't let them cow you.

There's nothing worse than bestiality, except bestiality puns

Didn't Oscar Wilde say that?

Anyway, apologies for ramming the pun in there.

I've been thinking "at least this is better than yesterday's worst-pain rundowns,"

That's also because you're sticking to mammal bestiality. Once you get into ocean life, it gets worse.

::tries to not think about fish tacos::

Why do I seem to remember a case of dolphins sexually assaulting humans (I'm pretty sure they do it to their neighbours)?

There's nothing worse than bestiality, except bestiality puns

Didn't Oscar Wilde say that?

I thought he said, "The only thing worse than fucking a sheep is not fucking one."

But I'm sure it's more than possible to make the horse stand there (horses are restrained for legit reasons, aren't they) while you bone it.

I think the term "stump-broke cattle" applies here.

I think you people are sick enough freaks that you could be elected to office in Texas, and I mean that as a compliment. Oh wait, no I don't.

I'm pretty sure they do it to their neighbours

Yes, dolphins will rape other dolphins. Sometimes gang-rape. IIRC, the rapists are dolphins that aren't getting any.

IIRC, the rapists are dolphins that aren't getting any.

So it's about the sex, not the power?

Why do I seem to remember a case of dolphins sexually assaulting humans (I'm pretty sure they do it to their neighbours)?

I think there was a link to something about that here. Sometime in the last year or so.

Or maybe it was on Scrubs.

Aha!

NORWEGIAN MAN ACCUSES DOLPHIN OF ATTEMPTED RAPE

Date: 17-Aug-99 10:28 pm
Newspaper: Regular International

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Oslo, Aug 17 Reuters - A Norwegian man is accusing a dolphin of attempted rape.

Norway's top-selling daily Verdens Gang on Tuesday quoted the 28-year-old as saying that the dolphin apparently mistook him for a female after swimming alongside him in the sea off Farsund, south Norway, earlier this month.

The dolphin's penis got caught between the man's swimming costume and his legs before the man, who declined to give his name, managed to clamber back on board his boat.

``The dolphin shoved me forward two or three metres before I got loose,'' he said. ``At first I thought it was a fin...but dolphins don't have fins on their underbellies.''

A friend of the man, a diving instructor who saw the attack, told Verdens Gang that the dolphin ``tried it on with me too, but I was wearing protection -- a wetsuit''.