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I did the same thing!!! There's some slight spoiler-age in this link....but love that Bleeding Cool had to explain the term!
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/04/2...
Same here! My friend had to poke me in the arm to get me to stop giggling.
I kept myself from laughing. Barely. I had to point it out to my husband afterwards, and explain the VF link.
Caitlin wrote: "Minor spoiler for the Avengers movie:Someone says "quim". I can't remember anything else in the sentence, or even who said it, because I laughed out loud and immediately thought "I'm the only per..."
are you sure it wasn't quimby?
Kamil wrote: "are you sure it wasn't quimby? "A quote from Joss Whedon's interview (in which I believe he's pretending to interview himself):
"JW: Getting "mewling quim" out there to the masses. Also, Hulk."
http://whedonesque.com/comments/28797
Yep. I noticed it too and thought the same thing....that I was probably the only on in the theater that knew what that was. Loki says it to Black Widow when he is being particularly vicious towards her at the time he is stuck in that chamber.
I felt the same way. I felt a little sense of exhilaration knowing I was in on a joke that the other people there didn't get. So thank you to Felicia.
Yep it's Loki lol I was so excited but there was no one to share it with at the movies lol. I think Felicia tweeted about it too.
Me too! My husband and I laughed out loud together at it. Loki has a very expanded vocabulary.Yay VFH!
I laughed too, which was kind of weird because it's a tense moment. My husband looked at me like I was a little bit crazy, but it was a cool moment!I also think Black Widow herself would be a fine VF heroine. She's sassy and tough, I just loved her character. :)
Hurm...I had no idea it had fallen so far out of common usage.Here's a puzzle for you: what is the male counterpart? (and yes, I know the anatomy - I'm looking for a word). Cock goes with cunt. Prick goes with pussy. What goes with quim (other than another quim)?
Phallus! (I'd pair cock with pussy, though I realize that's a matter of personal taste).
@Rachel - it's just C&C are both solid old Anglo Saxon words. Phallus is so formal...I expect it to have a title: Lord Phallus, 3rd Earl of Lesser Pounding on Wetting. Whereas quim is...I don't know...cute? Is there a cute word for penis?
Oh it's the euphemism tango...
Shaft? But then again, the tv series comes to mind XD.
I had a wow moment. That's a pretty vulgar word, and my sister and agreed that they got away with it, because many people didn't know what the word meant.
the direction south that this topic would take was imminent. i've been lol'ing at the whole thing.
it's funny how a cute word ( when used to describe a part of the body) could be so offensive when used to insult a person
My husband and I exchanged "Holy cow, did they just get away with calling her that?!" looks in the theater. Lady Danielle is right, I think it slipped by completely because 90% of the audience hasn't read nearly enough historical fiction to catch it.
Thanks to this thread I expected to hear the word... but couldn't stop myself from loosing it. Yes, I was the only one laughing and I know it's because nobody else had ever heard the word (although, contextually speaking, its rather obvious what it means).3 cheers for Joss Whedon though. No other male writer in that industry can put a woman in a leather catsuit and call her a cunt and do it in a way that doesn't send my mysogeny-detector into overdrive.
Sarge wrote: "Is there a cute word for penis?"Winky.
My boyfriend noticed he'd said it, I thought that I'd heard wrong! The thing is, it didn't seem out of place at all. Loki is a norse god, so it stands to reason that he would use really old terms like that. Now when someone annoys me at work I secretly call them a mewling quim under my breath. It really cheers me up!
It's actually pretty nasty. AFAIK, Jose Molina used it first in the Firefly episode The Message. Womack calls the postman "an ugly little quim". Yes, I remember that off the top of my head because I teach a class on Firefly. :)
*facepalm* OK, egg on my face! It was Joss and Tim Minear who wrote The Message, no Jose Molina! My excuse it it's finals time here, so I reserve the right to not know what I'm saying at any given moment, lol!
I want to take a class on Firefly!!!!
In many of the historical's I've read the word "member" is used most frequently for penis.
I'm another one! When he said that, at first I gasped in shock, then busted out laughing! I was the only one that got it. I kept on snickering through the movie and had to explain afterwords why I was acting like a loon. My first statement was "the censors don't know what mewling quim means!"
OK so I found this to be awesome:[image error]
Chloe wrote: "OK so I found this to be awesome:"
That was indeed hilarious. Thanks for sharing.
Glad to know I wasn't the only one pole-axed by the depth of the insult in that word. The moment it popped out of Loki's mouth my own mouth just kind of flopped open and I thought "He didn't just say that, did he? They didn't just get away with that, did they?" And a split-second later I knew they'd gotten away with it, because it's there, right? And it wasn't bleeped or cut out, which means no one knows what it really means except for a very special few.
It really is a hugely rude word. He basically called her a 'whining c**t'. Kudos to Josh for getting away with that in a 15!
please don't forget Loki is the guy no one should want to befriend, so it's legit for this piece of puppy's poo to use certain words. otherwise it would be like swimming whithout getting wet
"I expect it to have a title: Lord Phallus, 3rd Earl of Lesser Pounding on Wetting. Whereas quim is...I don't know...cute? Is there a cute word for penis?"Todger
I know that quim describes the same body part as cunt but I just don't get the same ick factor when hearing quim as I do when I hear the word cunt. I personally loved that they put it in the movie and that I was one of the only people in the audience who knew what it meant because of this book club.
I wonder how many other times the word showed up without anybody noticing. On a related note, I find it really distracting to read Speaker for the Dead whenever they mention a character named Quim (cruel parents/author).P.S. Just how uncommon is this word to have the spell checker complain about it? Dear developers, your profanity needs work.
Someone says "quim". I can't remember anything else in the sentence, or even who said it, because I laughed out loud and immediately thought "I'm the only person in the theatre who knows what that means!"
Thank you to VF for increasing my vocabulary.