{"id":588,"date":"2010-10-01T08:46:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T12:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2010-10-01T08:46:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T12:46:32","slug":"manfaq-friday-stroke-of-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"ManFAQ Friday: Stroke of Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, and that means answer time! For those of you who have commented with questions from previous ManFAQs, thank you. I&#8217;m adding yours to the list of questions women have asked about men over the years, and I will answer them all in turn &#8211; to continue to demystify the more malodorous gender for those of the gentler.\u00a0 Actual questions, posed by real women, and answered by a REAL man. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nQuestion:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<em> Why do some guys insist on using the word &#8220;stroke&#8221;\u00a0in places I wouldn&#8217;t expect?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I <strong>really<\/strong> want to ask you about places where you don&#8217;t expect to be stroked, but you might figure out where I live, get through my security systems, and disarm my attack cats.\u00a0 So instead I&#8217;ll tell you this:\u00a0 Guys like the word stroke because it sounds nice and masculine, all those Ks and Rs and Ss, like Strong.\u00a0 &#8220;What did he die of?&#8221; &#8220;He had a stroke.&#8221;\u00a0 It sounds more manly than some wussie heart attack, anyone can die of those.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the verb, which is (A) fun to say, (B) fun to do, and (C) more likely what you&#8217;re talking about.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t like having strokes nearly as much as we like stroking &#8211; and being stroked.\u00a0 Why do you think there are more teen pregancies on crew teams than cheerleading squads?\u00a0 &#8220;Stroke!&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Why, yes please!&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Stroke!&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Oh, cockswain?&#8221;\u00a0 Once we&#8217;ve gotten you thinking about stroking something &#8211; of yours, or of ours, and really, any part of our anatomy is pretty much fair game, we&#8217;re not picky about where you start stroking &#8211; we&#8217;re pretty much on the zipline to the Hey Hey.\u00a0 And as we know, <a title=\"Hey Hey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=412\">it&#8217;s all about the Hey Hey<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course we have to be careful &#8211; if that actually worked, more of us would probably be having\u00a0strokes!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Now you know. Please, feel free to comment with any questions <strong>you&#8217;d<\/strong> like answered!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actual questions, posed by real women, and answered by a REAL man. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}