Comments on: Riverboat style?

Question: Riverboat style?

wilky — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:54:02 -0800

"Regular or River boat style?" Some mildly NSFW text inside...

So my boyfriend caught a rather lame show on Fox and at one point the main character needed some help with getting it up for a medical reason. Of course a cute blonde character then offered him assistance, giving the option of "regular or riverboat style."

So after much back and forth speculation and some Googling neither of us could figure it out. Anyone heard of this? Creative suggestions also encouraged since the phrase could just be a red herring.

Here's the synopsis if that'll help any. (Mentioned at the very bottom)

By: Napierzaza

Napierzaza — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:04:39 -0800

Circumsized?

By: edgeways

edgeways — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:37:32 -0800

wet?

By: edgeways

edgeways — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:49:19 -0800

on reflection and poking around google I suspect the writers are trying to start a mem.
What is associated with riverboats?
-Gambling
-Big Paddle wheel (which goes round and round
-Older boats are steam powered
-There may be a (false, or at least not exclusive) association with southern culture.
-?

I fail to see how any of these things can be easily linked to *cough* manual (and or oral?) manipulation of the male sex organ

The one thing the net is good for is sex related and if nothing comes up "riverboat style" in direct reference to sexual activity I'm guessing it's made up with the hope it'll be picked up in pop culture.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:23:39 -0800

Yeah, it sounds like a made up term to me too.

By: chrominance

chrominance — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:58:52 -0800

If Urban Dictionary doesn't have it, it must be made up.

So I'm going to make it up on the spot: in one of those sex-related conversations everyone has in freshman year, my female neighbour asks if any of us have ever masturbated by rolling the penis, like you were trying to start a fire with sticks. She claims her boyfriend did it. I totally don't believe her.

RIVERBOAT STYLE.

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 01:28:34 -0800

Okay, I wasn't the only one who was wondering wtf 'Riverboat Style' is.

By: Prince Nez

Prince Nez — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 01:29:47 -0800

How 'bout one hand after the other, always going in the same direction. Kinda like a paddlewheel.

By: stupidsexyFlanders

stupidsexyFlanders — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:16:51 -0800

How about doing it unprotected, where you're "gambling" on your partner's health.

By: maniactown

maniactown — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:09:56 -0800

I think supersexyFlanders and edgeways' answers are both the same thing as well as the right answer. What a strange topic to consider first thing in the morning.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:20:37 -0800

Was there anything in the context of the show that might possibly make the "riverboat style" line make any sense whatsoever? Who was the blonde character? Where were they? What had they just done? More often than a line like this is just a bad joke (in the sense that you don't have to query the hive mind if a joke is good).

By: RobotHero

RobotHero — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:31:10 -0800

Odds are that they wanted something that sounded dirty, but that the censors couldn't prove was dirty.

If you've heard the story about Clerks: the Cartoon and the quest for a way to say blowjob without the word "blowjob," you'll understand what might motivate them to do so.

By: barjo

barjo — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 10:06:49 -0800

Reminds me of the Venus Butterfly, which started out as a meaningless bit of sex talk on L.A. Law and eventually acquired a definition (NSFW dirty talk at link).

By: donpedro

donpedro — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 11:30:31 -0800

Reminds me of how writers for The Simpsons slipped in a line about "wedgies, wet willies, or even the dreaded rear admiral." The dreaded what? Sounded so delicious, and I wondered what it was for a long time until I Googled it. Disappointing, indeed, but I was happy to know I wasn't the only one who was intrigued and stumped.

By: quin

quin — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:56:08 -0800

i'm guessing you are talking about the Fox show 'The Loop', my wife and i noticed that rather than opt for a Arrested Development/ Reno 911 documentary style with the obscenities [bleeped] out, The Loop seems to enjoy using nonsensical swears, like "suck-licker", stuff that sounds dirty, but really isn't. i suspect that the riverboat style is just an extension of this.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:08:38 -0800

And now life follows art, river boat style now has an Urban Dictionary entry.