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most events in San Francisco can easily go from a bonestorm to a bronado to a category five hisicane in a span of 30 minutes

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most events in San Francisco are such that the female/male ratio can easily go from relatively high (and therefore favourable) to very low in a relatively short span of time.

The term bronado seems to be a portmanteau of "bro" and "tornado". The term hisicane appears to be a pun on "hurricane". It uses the fact that "hurri" is a homophone of "her" then changes "her" to "his". We could not infer the etymology of bonestorm but we grokked the meaning by the context.

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Heh! I thought bronado and hisicane were Spanish or something :-)

I though bonestorm should be something more close to the finale?

bonestorm |bōn'stôrm|

noun

A sausage party: a preponderance of men in a gathering. The term is a vulgar pun implying that men in a group with even a small number of ladies will become sexually aroused (i.e. have boners).

EDIT: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bonestorm urban dictionary disagrees ... but I still prefer my interpretation.

Your interpretation seems natural, but it doesn't fit the context here, where bonestorm and bronado are evidently antonyms. The Urban Dictionary definition, on the other hand, does make sense.

Noah Webster, I might note, is currently spinning in his grave.

nandemo, I have no idea how you got to know this lingo, but I am very impressed.

"You go from a man-storm to a man-tornado to a category five man-hurricane in a span of 30 minutes" + puns on words. ha ha.

Urban Dictionary FTW!:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bronado

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bonestorm

Alas: urban ethnologists and lexologists have yet to define "hisicane."

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