Comments on: Limerick Graffiti Archive: A Bonner All The Time

By: fústar

fústar — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:22:42 +0000

Er…thanks John - though I think we’d arrived at that conclusion already…

By: John Bonner

John Bonner — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:18:33 +0000

I believe the correct interpretation of the graffito is: Dave F has a boner [that is, hard-on] all the time.

By: londoner

londoner — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:49:29 +0000

i heard once that the night shift at a munster certain cheese factory would go to great LENGTHS and PULL all kinds of STROKES to enhance their cheese flavour. The child labour laws are their for a reason - to keep 14 year olds out of cheese factories. I knew a guy who would rather stand all the way home on the after school bus than risk the inevitable ‘discomfort’ of sitting in a seat pre warmed by a female passenger, of any age size or mustache colour.

By: devo

devo — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:29:47 +0000

In the 1972 Sam Peckinpah film ‘Junior Bonner’, Steve Mcqueen plays a young lad trying to hide his erectile exitement whilst working in a cheese factory during summer break. Naturally it all ends badly in haze of ’stilton’ and ‘camembert’

By: fústar

fústar — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:35:11 +0000

What important observations!

Thanks L. This is vital work and I presume future generations will thank me for it. They’ll be still talking about Dave F’s “bonner” well into the 22nd century if I’ve anything to do with it.

…what purpose does the graffiti serve?

This is classic boys’ school stuff. Having a “bonner” all the time means that you’re…er…excited even when exclusively in the company of men. By schoolboy logic that makes you a “gaylord”, and to anxious young fellas there’s no more damaging ‘insult’ than that.

This, of course, fails to take into account the fact that young males can get “bonners” in practically any situation: looking at pieces of cheese, thinking about their homework etc, etc.

By: lauranen

lauranen — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:08:41 +0000

What important observations! :D If we go with the last one of the suggested scenarios, what purpose does the graffiti serve? Is it to warn possible future girlfriends, just to point out a curiosity or is it meant as a freak-of-nature-exposing tabloid headline?