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Traffic boners are on the way out!, October 2, 1939
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From LIFE Magazine
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I read everything in that pic and I still have no idea wtf they are talking about.
Boner used to be used as "accident"
More generally, “blunder” or “mistake.”
There are a lot of old comics that used “boner” in this way. See Joker’s boner as a classic hilarious example.
A local radio station has a morning show segment called "boner of the day," which presents three idiots and the hosts pick one (or maybe a caller, I forget) to "win". They're usually people from the news (like Florida man) doing something incredibly dumb or messing up hard.