You know another gross thing I learned when I got older is that there really are Boogey Men. When I was a kid and it was getting dark outside we'd sometimes say to our friends "You better get home the boogy-man will get you!" We'd laugh and say there was no such thing.
The origin of the boogy man phrase stems from the distortion of the old word that described the homo. lifestyle as "buggary". Those men that engaged in buggary looked for male children like Mohammed the prophet did. Hence the boogey man will get you!
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The fact that bogey comes from Middle English bugge ("something scary") which is related to the Scottish word bogill , the Welsh word bwg and probably the German word böggel-mann (all meaning 'goblin'), whereas the word 'bugger' ultimately derives, in a display of Catholic prejudice against outsiders, from the Latin Bulgaris , meaning "one from Bulgaria" couldn't possibly mean anything at all, could it?
In short words you can understand: that's not the origin of the phrase.
Ponts for originality. Really, I mean that.
Not really fundy, only dumb
"The origin of the boogy man phrase stems from the distortion of the old word that described the homo. lifestyle as "buggary". Those men that engaged in buggary looked for male children like Mohammed the prophet did. Hence the boogey man will get you!"
I didn't Google it and don't happen to have an etymological dictionary handy and I can still say emphatically, bullshit! Just how fucking stupid do you need to be to not only make this up but expect other people to believe it?
Man, somebody really did a job on your head when you were a kid. You're fucked up, son.
Notice how fundie is comprised of the words "fun" and "die" as in they have fun thinking about death all the time. It even has a double meaning in that when you become a fundie your fun dies; anything you once enjoyed suddenly loses its fun and is replaced with thoughts of death.
See, I can make up bullshit etymologies too.
Well, it's the Boogie Woogie Man that's got me avoiding dark bushes at night. I'm strictly for Rock 'n' Roll, myself.
Then there's the Boogerman - jumps out of the bushes and wipes one on you. (Some, I hear, are wipers, others flickers. It's all in the wrist action.)
"bogeyman"" not "boogeyman"
bogey: World War II aviator slang for "unidentified aircraft, presumably hostile," probably ultimately from bogge, a variant of M.E. bugge "a frightening specter" (see bug). Thus it shares ancestry with many dialect words, such as bog/bogge (attested 16c.-17c.), bogeyman (16c.), boggart "specter that haunts a gloomy spot" (c.1570, in Westmoreland, Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire). The earliest modern form appears to be Scottish bogle "ghost," attested from c.1500 and popularized c.1800 in English literature by Scott, Burns, etc.
No it actually comes from "bug-eye man" and refers to the old belief that if children were left to wander alone after dark they could be snatched by rogue ophthalmologists and fitted with unnecessary and expensive glasses.
Hey, making s*** up is fun!
Did you know, get this, that homosexuality has nothing to do with pedophilia, and that not all of them engage in 'buggery'? And seeing as how some heterosexuals engage in sodomy as well, your argument crumbles.
Actually, Muslim fundamentalists come down on deviation from their normative sexual model pretty damned hard. It may include a little more polygyny than the Catholic norm, but whatever guys, it's really brutal anyway.
Not that I'd defend Mohammed the (fake) prophet, who was a pedophile, all right, but his predilection was for girls, not boys.
Nice try attempting to tie one source of fundie hysteria in with another, though.
I always thought we were accusing Mohammed of being a lolicon, not a pederast? Oh well.
Anyway, bullshit on the etymology. Boogeyman is similar to bogey and boggart (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bogey ) , which apparently have more in common with bug than with bugger, with "bugger" having the earliest etymology of the four http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=bug&searchmode=none .
Oh, homosexual is not equal to pedophile, who the fuck cares even if it was about that if there was no evidence that the phrase actually reflected reality, etc. etc.
Wade, obviously, is unfamiliar with that Satanic invention called a "dictionary". I bet he's never read the Buybull either. In fact, I would guess that trying to read a comic gives him the vapors.
Uhhhh
Citation needed.
Your move...bitch.
The origin of the boogy man phrase stems from the distortion of the old word that described the homo
Liar. That might be what you fundies try to sell to people, but it's a lie.
The etymology of the word "bogeyman" is uncertain, as is when it first appeared in the English language. Some sources date it to the 16th century, while others to around 1836, as a term for the Devil.
The roots of the word might ultimately derive from the Middle English bugge, meaning a "frightening spectre". Similar deriviations include boggart, bogy, bugbear, the Welsh bwg, the Scottish Gaelic bòcan and the German bögge, all referring to goblins or frightening creatures. "Bogey" may also come from the Scottish bogle, meaning "ghost" or "hobgoblin", dating to around 1505 and popularised in English literature around the 19th century through the works of Scottish poets like Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.
Um, no they didn't. They looked for other men who like to have sex with men. You know, just like gay men do today.
Oh, I forgot, you don't care about facts. You don't even care how to spell the word "buggery."
Yes, we gays, when we're not having 500 sexual partners by the time we're 25, we're hunting children in the night.
You guys DO realize that we have lives that GASP resemble yours on several levels? We have school and jobs and families and normal-people things to do.
The bogeyman legend may originate from Scotland, where such creatures are sometimes called bogles, boggarts, or boggers.[1]
Well, damn you for trying to sound intelligent. You fail, though, especially since 'buggery' is a relatively recent slang term. It's just English.
And darn it, Mohammed married one little girl for political reasons. We don't even have the data to know if he liked little girls in general, although he very probably had sex with her way younger than is generally considered good by normal Muslims or by Western civilization. And yes, he was very fond of Aisha, but quasi-historical sources indicate that she had a strong and engaging personality. And sat on a camel in the middle of a battle that was named after it. So there was shit to like. And there were no little boys. Doh.
Lying for Jesus, huh?
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Once again I see somebody saying that gay equals pedophile. Guess what? Gay does not equal pedophile, and there are plenty of straight pedophiles/child-molesters out there, in fact they comprise the majority of all pedos/molesters.
But of course there is no way informing you of that, since your mind, as small as it is, is made up.
it's homophobic, anti-muslim, AND historically bogus?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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