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in reply to a message by Manipura
I had to look this up to find out what it was. It's more often called the John Thomas sign and seems to have been named after a physician named Thomas Bentley Throckmorton who was born in 1885 and died in 1961. It is exceedingly unlikely that the screenwriters or film audiences in 1938 would have known about this -- I doubt if there are hardly any screenwriters or members of a film audience who have no training in a medical profession who've heard of it today. So I think the problem with "Throckmorton" has to do with its sound and length, not an association with this discredited medical sign.
https://radiopaedia.org/articles/throckmorton-sign-pelvis?lang=us
https://radiopaedia.org/articles/throckmorton-sign-pelvis?lang=us
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Oh, good. Yeah, I figured that was kind of obscure, but it does add to why the name's unenviable.
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yes ...
The sound of it is funny; throck! Like choking on a fishbone. Or like hitting someone upside his head, more solidly than a thwack but not as solid as a thump.
There is a town and county in Texas called Throckmorton.
And I believe there's some castle or family or both in England called Throgmorton, which is even funnier.
The sound of it is funny; throck! Like choking on a fishbone. Or like hitting someone upside his head, more solidly than a thwack but not as solid as a thump.
There is a town and county in Texas called Throckmorton.
And I believe there's some castle or family or both in England called Throgmorton, which is even funnier.
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Throckmorton and Throgmorton are from an English place name which according to "A Dictionary of English Place-Names" by A. D. Mills is possibly from Old English for "farmstead by a pool with a beam bridge", with the "Throc" part meaning "beam bridge".
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looked up the medical sign ...
Now I know more than I ever wanted to know about penis location in relation to pelvic or leg injuries. I didn't actually want to know anything about it at all. lol
As I recall, John Thomas was slang for penis in "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
Now I know more than I ever wanted to know about penis location in relation to pelvic or leg injuries. I didn't actually want to know anything about it at all. lol
As I recall, John Thomas was slang for penis in "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
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In Lady Chat and beyond. I know an Englishman whose ln is Thomas and who has three given names. He once remarked that he was extremely grateful that none of them was John, and everyone nodded wisely!
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A friend of mine named his son John Thomas recently. I uh didn't say anything. But I thought thing.
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