I have long been a fan of the parody of JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, titled Bored of the Rings. It was written by Harvard Lampoon and is pretty funny. There is a term in the book that I always wondered what it meant:
As a rule they [the Boggies, parody of hobbits] now avoid us, except on rare occasions when a hundred or so will get together to dry-gulch a lone farmer or hunter.
I really had no idea what they meant by dry-gulch, so off I finally went to the big wide internet to find out. Apparently though, this term now has many meanings!
It can mean slamming someone on the nose so hard that they die. It can mean a forearm or sucker punch to the throat. And it can mean so many other things up to and including oral sex!
Well, I'm assuming that the Harvard Lampoon meant some sort of sneak attack to the throat in a cowardly manner since that seems to be the oldest reference that I can find... but you never know! Maybe those Boggies really really liked that hunter or farmer... still, hundreds of them, maybe they're better of its a physical attack!
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