Comments on: How Gay Were the Hardy Boys?

By: Owen Murphy

Owen Murphy — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:53:12 +0000

I love the movie of Ben Stiller which is There is something about mary, nice love story and comedy.:**

By: grungy

grungy — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:07:06 +0000

ok I am 65 started hearing, reading at 1951 from textbooks and library published in 20s 30s pre-WWll the words Gay and and many others were stll used in daily life then it was not considered Homosexual at all. we never heard; slut, whore, Fag[except to discribe a relit ciggeret] pussy was ‘cat feminien. Twat was girls downtheres . peter was boys. cock some how was for girls ‘get a piece of cock’
men’ got a piece of tail’ ie ass , slice of IT. Rubbers were the gum shoes you wore in the rain. Condoms were ‘jonny rubbers’ snakeskins or lamb skins, fish gut. girls talked nasty only when no males were in esr shot. but when they did it was attrousis.
The references to it were not baseball like boys did . it was flower gardens like it was in the 1900s -20s. or fancy house like earlier than that. I herd him knocking at my door. [petting her pubes] Let him in the foryer[kept bloomers dress on for a feelup. invited him to the vestabule'inside the clothing with his hand maybe a titty kiss]. Dressed the parlor’[took the panties/bra off,still dress/blouse on] let him work around at the fine furniture with out thenice dust covers that were kept on it unless company was cummin]’ He rang the kitchen[sic: bell]”Cunniling’us ffor us. A quite-tapping on the backdoor’ was anal OK??” let him in to clean his rubbers’ ” put on a jonny skin’ Did it that way till he was finished. Opened the pantry” he couod do anything he could to get her ‘Goat’ ‘ trip her trigger’ give her the’ Vapors’.
the other was flower garden . Swinging on the garden gate was ‘intercourse’or girl to girl fun, not as uncommon as you think of greatgrand mothers were. They were plegued with a lack of male correspondence. Flue in the late teens killed healthy working males more than females of the home . WWl took ablebodied males and sent home cripples, mustard gas was debilitating beyond our present horors. STDs were rampant. They were 3 to one in the cities and worse in the country. unwed mothers had special HOMES to vacation at for the 4 months of recurperation of ”Sick Aunt’s” Dancing was a community Effort to make money for THE BOYS overseas and the girls charged 10 cents a dance which made them 5 bucks on a good night they had dance cards to be filled. they kept the money over the card as tips. A parking lot trip for a’ bit of fresh air ‘ generallt added jingle to the mole skin pouch, velvteen shache. that hung from the wrist. and got them a swig of ‘Necters’
lavender was the AFRODISAC of the day. bayrum for men. The hot water bottle and a 6 inch long hard rubber spray head filled with vineger for cleansing the ‘ upper vestibule’ after a hard night on your heels,['round heels' were the one who tipped over on their backs easily]. pine-tar soap for killing the ever present lice .
”skads”were the amount of Ferns in your bunch””number of males you KNEW biblicaly in a certain period. ‘Clutch’ was the number of males you had to’ Choose’ from.’main squeeze’ going steady with . ‘lotus blossom’ was girls who let about anyone on her lilly pad if they felt froggy. the resulting withered up stem with miltipul holes in it was what they were to look like in a few years.” Porcupines” was ‘having as many pkling out as had been poked in”. Raffel ticket ‘was one winner a month wait for the results next period. Alum the chemical of steptic pincels , was used as a ‘Drench’ in the hot water bottle to ‘tighten the draw string on a round heeled girl. before a date. chicken liver ,one was inserted, to fake a virginity. the resulting bloody mess stunk enough to fool most guy’s they are DUMB you know. wet orgasms were refered to as ‘ private purgings” or ” slip shots” motor car sex was touted as highly as Hotel for the night is now. Picnic sex was the most common. Next time I’ll tell you about Gaslight parks that were all across America paid for by the big companies that provided lifhting gas for the communities. including the benches band shells and curvywalk was with primrose gardens 10 feet tall.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:35:22 +0000

Erm…okay…I think you’re allowing your imagination to run away with you.

There are no gay jokes in the Hardy Boys books, only phrases that have long come to have other meanings. The fact they MAY have had vague overtones way back when (according to Wikipedia, the world’s educator) doesn’t mean that McFarlane was meaning them to have any other connotation than what those words actually meant, for example, Gay = Happy.

To imply that the author wrote the Hardy Boys with a gay overtone is frankly insulting to the author, and insulting to the editor of the books at the time. Don’t you think it would have been picked up at the time? They were careful in those days as to what got passed the censor…besides which, I’m pretty sure McFarlane would have had more pride in his work even if he wasn’t enjoying it.

These are children’s books. If you feel the need, go and concentrate your strange observations on books aimed at the over twelves. Mind you, it wouldn’t be as much fun, or as contraversial, would it?

By: Bicycle Bill

Bicycle Bill — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:20:14 +0000

How appropriate that this was posted on a site named after monkeys.

Wasn’t it once said that if an infinite number of monkeys were allowed to type at an infinite number of typewriters, they would eventually reproduce all the works of Shakespeare? Material like this shows that internet blogging is probably the closest approximation we have to that scenario.

Keep typing, ‘Destiny’. Shakespeare is out there somewhere.

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By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:32:38 +0000

wow dude u r truly a fag. u got way too much time on ur hands to use all this bogus shit to try to prove the greatest book series to come out of America of being gay. Fuck you u dumb cunt!!!!

By: Destiny

Destiny — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:40:08 +0000

HardyFan: you need to read the original editions that were released in the 1920s. Applewood books re-issued them in the 1990s. (Just follow the links!)

By: HardyFan

HardyFan — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:58:04 +0000

I always thought they talked different, but I searched every chapter in those books and none of those paragraphs showed up as to what I saw. What bull crap!

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Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:28:35 +0000

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By: D. E. Young

D. E. Young — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:30:12 +0000

Nancy drew wasn’t ‘butch’; she was ‘bitch’! Poor Ted!

By: Raving Maniac

Raving Maniac — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:01:56 +0000

What are you fucking kidding with this shit?
Leave it to a sicko perverted fag to try to besmirch the Hardy Boys and Leslie McFarlane.
Go fuck yourself!

By: Cordelia MacCaine

Cordelia MacCaine — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:42:26 +0000

Haha..got the Norwegian edition published on this site..better hurry back in the closet…;-)

PS: Think the monster in the cave use to call itself ‘the eye of Hoor’

,-7 ‘ shame on you…CMC’

By: larry

larry — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:11:12 +0000

When I was young the first hardy Boy books I read were early versions and I spent some time looking words up i.e.;ruffian or reiver[my example].
As later versions were realeased these words would change ,modernized,along with the various Hardy Boy’s activities [combo became a rock band].
I wonder if good ol’ Chet ever “pulled a boner”.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:19:21 +0000

I love it. I wish that Nancy Drew was gay. She seem so…butch!

By: Down10

Down10 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:55:33 +0000

Bogus sources or not, I think Destiny is pointing out there that there are a few too many turns of phrase in this book for it to be a mere coincidence. There are a whole lot of words in there that are now just dripping with innuendo. (You see what I did there?)

“Ejaculated”? Really. One of the female characters says “I wish I was a boy”, and the other agrees, and one of the boys says “tough luck you’re not.” Really?!

By: bookfraud

bookfraud — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:54:56 +0000

funny stuff, even if you don’t sell readers on the thesis (i doubt that was the intention). reminds me of a deconstructionist english prof who once told the class hamlet’s “to be or not to be” soliloquy was all about masturbation…gave examples…ugh…

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ArtLung Blog » Misc-y Halloween! — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:24:59 +0000

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By: Pete Bogs

Pete Bogs — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:07:15 +0000

there’s a South Park episode that seems to suggest the Hardy Boys were gay… I don’t buy it, though… indeed, 21st century colloquial language is different from 20th century… but maybe this entire post was intended as a joke?

By: Rachel Dalika

Rachel Dalika — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:36:59 +0000

Since when is WiIkipedia the authority on slang of the 20’s? I have always been taught that in 1929 gay meant happy, or fun, not homosexual. Destiny is trying way to hard to make his/her point. McFarlane may have resented having to write the books to get by, but that doesn’t meen he was hiding homosexual innuendo in the prose. This is a 2007 reading of 1929 writing. Has Destiny read much fiction from that time period? If so, Destiny may realize that language was used differently then.

BTW, Why is it Gay for 4 boys to want to explore caves? Why is Destiny looking so hard to find a gay theme for a juvenile detective story from the late 20’s? I found the article very annoying.