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SPUNK LAKES  

spunkycumfun 63M/69F
29519 posts
2/20/2013 12:00 am
SPUNK LAKES

Bloody internet! I went from finding this photo below to the exploring the historical meanings of the word, spunk. My life has been enriched!



Have you stopped at this rest area? If so, what did you do?
Would you stop at this rest area?
Have you ever stopped at a rest area or a motorway service station to have sex?


The Big Spunk Rest Area is a rest area by Big Spunk Lake near the town of Avon in Minnesota. The rest area is “clean and filled with supplies” with “Plenty of space to stretch your legs”. I would have to stop just to see what it was all about!

Nearby is the Middle Spunk Lake rest stop by Middle Spunk Lake, and the Upper Spunk Lake Country Park on the shore of the Upper Spunk Lake.

Have you been to Big Spunk Lake, Middle Spunk Lake and Upper Spunk Lake?

I have never visited Minnesota; all I know about the state is from the film, Fargo. But why are there spunk lakes in Minnesota?

The word, spunk, has been used in the English language since the sixteenth century. According to Anatoly Liberman, a leading etymologist, spunk “means ‘spark’ and ‘touchwood’. Touchwood is what becomes of wood when certain fungi convert it into a soft mass; once ignited, it can burn for hours like tinder”. He added that the meaning of spunk as courage, mettle, pluck, spirits “can be understood as a figurative extension of ‘tinder’” and the meaning of spunk as semen “is an obvious extension of ‘spirit, virility’”.

Liberman also suggested that punk and funk, both derived from ‘touchwood’, are etymologically linked to spunk. He does not speculate whether the phrases, touch wood and morning wood, are also linked.

From a rest area to a spunky, funky punk – blame the Minnesota spunk lakes!

FullOn4U 58M
20399 posts
2/20/2013 2:48 am

An Aussie once described the young Kylie to me as "she's got a lot of spunk in her" and couldn't understand why I was


lok4fun500 M
51906 posts
2/20/2013 5:08 am

no!
If I had to!
No! but it is on the bucket list!


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
2/22/2013 11:14 pm

    Quoting FullOn4U:
    An Aussie once described the young Kylie to me as "she's got a lot of spunk in her" and couldn't understand why I was
That's funny!


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
2/22/2013 11:17 pm

    Quoting lok4fun500:
    no!
    If I had to!
    No! but it is on the bucket list!
Let's hope it gets ticked off your bucket list.
I'm sure a big welcome awaits you at the Big Spunk Rest Area if travelling in the area!


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
2/22/2013 11:18 pm

    Quoting  :

Thanks for your post and also many thanks for your kind words. x


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