"Felicity" <felicity4711@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message =
news:1129921761.684565.27290@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I've often wondered that myself.
>=20
> Could the early eighties really have been that much more innocent a
> time, that "boner" didn't have that connotation? It seems unlikely,
> doesn't it?
>
It was a well-known term for an erection way before that series started. =
I think "pulled a boner" stopped being used as slang for making a =
stupid mistake a decade before that show aired.