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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

donkey kong

English answer:

Nintendo platform game

Added to glossary by Özden Arıkan
Dec 1, 2004 13:24
19 yrs ago
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English term

donkey kong

English Other Slang
You'll be ROTFL, but it's Crumpler again :)

The full context is as follows: "My mama always said quit horsin around . . . so I did. I stopped ridin bareback, settled down and got me a donkey. She ain’t no wise ass, neither, she’s good donkey style or I’m hung like a penguin. Shhh, don’t mention donkey kong or she’ll start swingin her ass ass over beer barrels and I’ll never get her home"

I could've made some wild guesses judging from the context, but I'd rather wait for someone who knows...
Responses
5 +12 NIntendo platform game
4 +6 a donkey's sexual member
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Discussion

Judith Kerman Dec 2, 2004:
Oh, good grief! Messenger bags?
Charlie Bavington Dec 1, 2004:
It's from here, isn't it? http://www.unipex.cz/images/messenger.pdf I leave it to the others to judge how 'sexual' these references are meant to be!
Non-ProZ.com Dec 1, 2004:
Thanks, it's pleasant to know that my own speculations coincide with your opinions :)

Responses

+12
1 min
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NIntendo platform game

This is an old video game for Nintendo 64 with a big gorilla.

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Note added at 2 mins (2004-12-01 13:26:44 GMT)
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PS in the game you get to jump over obstacles such as barrels.
Peer comment(s):
agree Mihailolja
2 mins
thanks
agree Kevin Kelly
4 mins
thanks
agree Lillian van den Broeck
6 mins
thanks
agree Aisha Maniar
11 mins
agree Katherine Hodkinson
14 mins
agree Charlie Bavington : this is certainly the primary reference. Whether a sexual reference is intended too is open to debate - depends how your mind works, I guess :-) !!
46 mins
agree Kaori Myatt : Yes, that's it.
2 hrs
neutral Refugio : This is half the answer, the other half is given by Kim
2 hrs
agree ben baudoin
3 hrs
agree Tony M : This was my first thought, too; the allusion to 'dong' is probably also deliberate, but not, I'd have thought, the primary intention
9 hrs
agree Judith Kerman : this one, and Kim's, too
12 hrs
agree Jörgen Slet
13 hrs
agree Lisa Frideborg Eddy (X)
21 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Graded automatically based on peer agreement."
+6
8 mins

a donkey's sexual member

I think "kong" is a play on "King Kong", the giant gorilla, and in this case "kong" is a giant penis. His donkey is a jenny, a female donkey.
"I’m hung like a penguin" - very small genitals.
"don’t mention donkey kong" - his jenny gets excited when she thinks a male donkey is around
Peer comment(s):
agree SirReaL : dese dudes are cool like dat
2 mins
Play on "dong"?
neutral Terence Ajbro : There is of course the possibility that he is referring to both!
5 mins
Never heard of the video game, I must admit, but somehow I think he's not talking about a video game here.
agree Mathew Robinson : The whole text is full of sexual connotations. // King Dong (porn star) -> King Kong -> Donkey Kong -> Donkey -> Horse = its all plays on words without saying the naughty ones and keeps with the original theme of "quit horsing around"
11 mins
"ridin bareback", "swingin her ass",
neutral Charlie Bavington : dong, schlong I've heard, but never kong, w.r.t. a penis. For those that *have* heard of/played the video game (i.e. with the cultural background the text requires), it's the first thing you think of :-) // Altho TechTrans makes valid points too.
37 mins
Isn't he making the same points I made?
agree Refugio : agree, the allusion is to the game in the context you give
2 hrs
I'm glad I wasn't just imagining things.
agree KathyT
9 hrs
agree Judith Kerman : this one and Terence's, too
12 hrs
agree Lisa Frideborg Eddy (X)
21 hrs
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12 mins

Below

There's an interesting story about how that name came about. Supposedly the Japanese developers wanted to use the idea of "King Kong" but since that name was taken, they come up with something like "Monkey Kong" which was screwed up in transcription and became "Donkey Kong." Don't know if it's true, but it's a good story.
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