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I am reading a book where a male Portuguese character is nicknamed Quim. Should I be giggling?

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a soccer player with that name as well. Comments were made.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm glad it's not just me! Joei thought I was making it up when I said that that word could be considered naughty.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Slang dictionary says: Noun. The vagina or more generally the female genitals. Possibly from the Celtic cwm, a valley.

― Ellie, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Porn would be so much better if it contained lines like, "I stood transfixed, marvelling at her Celtic cwm."

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did you also giggle when that film Snatch was released?

― jamesmichaelward, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, yes, but only for a microsecond and only when Madonna had on that T-shirt.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...and I giggled when, in the Henry James short story Sir Edmund Orme, one of the characters has "a roll of music in her muff".

― MarkH, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Trailers for Guy Ritchie's Snatch never fail to amuse me.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've seen Guy Ritchie's snatch and it's horrible, all over the place.

Quim is a Portugese goalkeeper.

― chris, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You could nickname the character Pita.

― helenfordsdale, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Big headline in the Observer this Sunday abt a football player named Shittu. The subs resisted any puns or comment.

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jeff Stelling made cracks about him when QPR played Chesterfield and Danny Shittu got sent off, apparently he got a yellow card, told the ref his name and got a second and was sent off. (completely apochryphal but was funny at the time) Jeff Stelling is, of course, a god-like genius.

― chris, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Speaker for the Dead? Or one of the others? That one is my favorite of the Ender books. and for him, it means 'king' ... ;)

― Chris, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My sister teaches a primary school kid called Shittu. And one called Kunti.

― N., Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was, in fact, _Speaker Of The Dead_. I forgot that "Quim" meant "King"; this is making me giggle more.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That one had the maturity lacking in some of "Ender's Game" but without all the metaphysical corners he wrote himself into in the third and fourth books. I think I've read "Speaker for the Dead" about three times, all in high school/early college ... descolada!

― Chris, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Celtic cwm? Always knew they were c*nts.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have never heard "quim" as anything other than that name before.

The Ender books started out good and got progressively worse; i think the author got bored.

― Maria, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Shittu is the same QPR side as Doudou. They did well not to mention that. Whatever happened to Newcastle's Dutchman Brian Penas anyway?

― Snotty Moore, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Ender books started out good and got progressively worse; i think the author got bored.

Card created a great universe, ratcheted everything up in the second book to a true depth of feeling on a variety of levels, then committed the Great Sin C.S. Lewis for the most part avoided -- he let his characters become mouthpieces for points of view, instead of letting the characters debate and wrestle over them in a realistic fashion, a struggling for expression rather than the trip-off-the-tongue disasters at the end of Xenocide. Such a waste.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Re Snatch and giggling: working at a cinema teaches you how many people consider themselves to be original comic geniuses, and how wrong they are (eg. "Do you have a Snatch on show here?" five-hundred times a day). Celtic words do cause problems, like with Irish-Australian film The Craic. Even What Women Want provoked pisspoor attempts at humour.

― Tim, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Reminds me of when both A Few Good Men and Last Night were appearing at the flicks, with their names appearing one above the other outside the cinema. Made for a laff or two.

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They've probably been mentioned somewhere before but the 9 year-old boy in me still cracks a smile at the sports stars Misty Hyman and Gregor Fucka.

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In the columbarium section of Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris you can see, quite close to each other, the last mortal remains of Field Marshall Fucker and Lionel Bastard.

I remember giggling at school when I had to read aloud a sentence from Joseph Conrad's 'Typhoon' ending: 'Captain McWhirter ejaculated thickly'. The context was social, not sexual, intercourse, which made the ejaculation all the more unexpected.

― Momus, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thank you, Ned and Maria; I was about to go buy _Xenocide_, but I think I'll get it from the library instead.

I think that if Card wants to see a sales spike, he'll stick a tagline that says "FEATURING QUIM!" in big bold letters on the front cover.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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