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Erick Vermillion-Salsbury

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Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
see wide usage?

Aside from my wife and I constantly calling each other
"spoose" -- which I can't believe is original with us --
we've come up with another one I think is pretty cute:

Near midnight, my brain usually becomes ...vegetative. By
analogy with the story of Cinderella [1], we've taken to
calling this "pumpkin time". As in, "No sense asking Rick
complicated questions; it's past pumpkin time".

I'm sure there are better ones out there :>

(On a not-quite-related note, I recently found myself, for
the first time to my knowledge, being quoted in someone's
.sig. Odd feeling...)

Regards,
--
Erick Vermillion-Salsbury, graphic artist
http://www.concentric.net/~erick/

[1] "It's in the hole! Shinderella shtory!" [2]

[2] _Caddyshack_ reference. If you haven't seen it, I'll
wait here...

Freyja

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Erick Vermillion-Salsbury <ri...@fastlane.net> wrote in message
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| Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
| see wide usage?

Groundhog Day.

We use it at work when explaining what we coders do for the steenth time to
someone who should know by now.

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Fax Paladin

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Erick Vermillion-Salsbury wrote:

> Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
> see wide usage?
>

> Aside from my wife and I constantly calling each other
> "spoose" -- which I can't believe is original with us --
> we've come up with another one I think is pretty cute:
>
> Near midnight, my brain usually becomes ...vegetative. By
> analogy with the story of Cinderella [1], we've taken to
> calling this "pumpkin time". As in, "No sense asking Rick
> complicated questions; it's past pumpkin time".

My circle of friends calls this the "raving simples," although that
tends to involve uncontrollable giggling more than mere brain shutdown.

Fax (it's incredible what becomes hilarious at 2 in the morning...)

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Joyce Melton

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Erick Vermillion-Salsbury <ri...@fastlane.net> wrote:

>"No sense asking Rick
>complicated questions; it's past pumpkin time".

We refer to this as pumpkinizing. :)

Joyce

Buddha Buck

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"Pumpkining" here... also, "to turn into a pumpkin", etc.

I'll also note that although it was Cinderella's coach, and
not her, that turned into a pumpkin, I and my friends tend to
view the person-up-past-their-bedtime as turning into the
pumpkin.

>
> Joyce


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Beth Jackson

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Erick Vermillion-Salsbury:

>>Folks,
>>do you have any pet slang terms
>>that you'd like to | see wide usage?

{:-) "Hectivity".

It's an old invention of my Aunt Millie's,
meaning "hectic activity".

I always thought it made pretty good sense.
{:-)

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Fat Controller

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Fats, who has been mounting a valiant and futile assault on his discrete
mathematics homework, looks up.

"Seeing as my homework's borked, I'll bite - because that's my favourite
term.

"Bork means 'break'; as in 'uh, somehow I managed to bork (or b0rk) my
computer', or 'the phone's b0rked again', or used to describe some
mechanical or communications related bit of b0rkage.

"Dunno where it came from. Maybe alt.fan.swedish-chef.bork.bork.bork, or
someone mistyping 'broke' in a chatroom or something. A b0rked 'broke',
if you will."

He eyes his homework with obvious hatred, finishes off his drink and
with something both muttered and vitriolic hurls the glass at the
fireplace, causing it to become quite severely b0rked.

Erick Vermillion-Salsbury wrote:
>
> Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
> see wide usage?

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Joyce Melton

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Buddha Buck <bmb...@14850.com> wrote:

>I'll also note that although it was Cinderella's coach, and
>not her, that turned into a pumpkin, I and my friends tend to
>view the person-up-past-their-bedtime as turning into the
>pumpkin.
>
>>

Yup. When some one starts yawning somebody else is sure to ask
"Feeling orange and squashy?" :)

"I'm surrounded by pumpkins."
"The evening pumpkined early."
"Pacific Daylight|Standard Pumpkin Time."

Like that... :)

Joyce

Kirsten M. Berry

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Erick Vermillion-Salsbury looked up from the want-ads, turned to me
and said:

}Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
}see wide usage?

Well, count me in as part of the Pumpkin Patch. ;-)

Beyond that, I'm partial to a coinage I picked up from Steve Allen's
novel _The Talk Show Murders_ ages ago: Scrod. One of the victims in
the book is a stand-up comedian who riffs for a couple of minutes on
how scrod *looks* as though it should be the past-tense of "screwed."
I know I've heard MurphyMom use it, and the Sniper has picked it
up...and I doubt I've ever used it where someone *couldn't* pick it up
in context.

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WareWolf

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Erick Vermillion-Salsbury wrote in message ...

>Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
>see wide usage?
>
>Aside from my wife and I constantly calling each other
>"spoose" -- which I can't believe is original with us --
>we've come up with another one I think is pretty cute:
>
>Near midnight, my brain usually becomes ...vegetative. By
>analogy with the story of Cinderella [1], we've taken to
>calling this "pumpkin time". As in, "No sense asking Rick

>complicated questions; it's past pumpkin time".
>
>I'm sure there are better ones out there :>


At my office, we always refer to a day with a high bozo count as "Dingbats
on Parade".

Dusty

betnoir

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Joyce Melton wrote:

> Erick Vermillion-Salsbury <ri...@fastlane.net> wrote:
>
> >"No sense asking Rick
> >complicated questions; it's past pumpkin time".
>

> We refer to this as pumpkinizing. :)

Or the state of Non Compes Poopus

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Jette Goldie

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Erick Vermillion-Salsbury wrote in message ...
>Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
>see wide usage?

Annawalla = umbrella. <g> It's what my daddy always called
them when I was younger and I was very surprised when I
discovered no one else did.

I still like to take my annawalla with me when I suspect it might
rain <g>

Jette Goldie

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Chris Wesling

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Erick Vermillion-Salsbury wrote:
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> Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
> see wide usage?

Well, when one or more of the cats start dashing senselessly back
and forth through the apartment, I look at Freyja and say "Flying
Kitties From Mars!"

Chris W.
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Freyja

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Chris Wesling <cwes...@home.cannedmeat.com> wrote in message
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| Erick Vermillion-Salsbury wrote:
| >
| > Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
| > see wide usage?
|
| Well, when one or more of the cats start dashing senselessly back
| and forth through the apartment, I look at Freyja and say "Flying
| Kitties From Mars!"

Yup, and those flying kitties at rest on us, purring, are Vibrating Hot
Water Bottles With Fur.

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And when Freya hisses, I call her "pottymouth".

dape...@my-deja.com

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In article <38c5e8f0...@news.mindspring.com>,

ksha...@mindspring.com (Kirsten M. Berry) wrote:

> Beyond that, I'm partial to a coinage I picked up from Steve Allen's
> novel _The Talk Show Murders_ ages ago: Scrod. One of the victims in
> the book is a stand-up comedian who riffs for a couple of minutes on
> how scrod *looks* as though it should be the past-tense of "screwed."
> I know I've heard MurphyMom use it, and the Sniper has picked it
> up...and I doubt I've ever used it where someone *couldn't* pick it up
> in context.

Ah, yes, scrod. Puts me in mind of a Newfoundlander i met once in
toronto. i met him in a fish market, whilst i was haggling with the
shopkeeper over a particularly delectable piece of salmon.

Ya see, the poor man was feeling somewhat homesick; he couldn't even
buy screech[1] in Toronto!

So he walked up to me, somewhat nervously, as i appeared to know my way
around fish. i *am* a penguin after all.

After a few hems and haws, he looked around, and then asked me quietly:

"Pssst: do you know where i can get scrod?"

to which i replied:

"Well, certainly, but i've never heard anyone say that in the
pluperfect subjunctive before...."


Penguin.


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In article <8a3j1d$on5$1...@supernews.com>,
"Jette Goldie" <bosslad...@mydeja.com> wrote:

> I still like to take my annawalla with me when I suspect it might
> rain <g>

funny, i take my umbrolligator.

Peng.

Stacy & Matthew Peterson

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> Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
> see wide usage?

<Plenty, but most of them are obscure or obscene.>

Maraud. Obfuscating...


Pat Kight

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Fax Paladin wrote:

>
> Erick Vermillion-Salsbury wrote:
>
> > Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
> > see wide usage?
> >
> > Aside from my wife and I constantly calling each other
> > "spoose" -- which I can't believe is original with us --
> > we've come up with another one I think is pretty cute:
> >
> > Near midnight, my brain usually becomes ...vegetative. By
> > analogy with the story of Cinderella [1], we've taken to
> > calling this "pumpkin time". As in, "No sense asking Rick

> > complicated questions; it's past pumpkin time".
>
> My circle of friends calls this the "raving simples," although that
> tends to involve uncontrollable giggling more than mere brain shutdown.

"Oooh! Oooh! Reminds me of a term I'm pretty sure I learned from my mom,
and have been spreading, meme-wise, ever since:

"The food-stupids.

"You know -- that dull-witted sensation that follows a heavy meal? As
expressed on Thanksgiving Day: `Nah, let's not clear the table yet -
I've got the food-stupids.'

"My mom was full of great expressions. Some were from her north Texas
childhood, I'm sure, but I always suspected others were her own
inventions. Here's another, widely used by my siblings and making
inroads to our circles of friends: `Mullygrubbing.' It describes the
sort of lazy, bathrobe-and-slippers, lie-about-with-the-paper
non-activity people do on, for instance, Sunday mornings. As in the
following phone conversation:

`So, what are you up to?'

`Oh, not much, just mullygrubbing.'

"Usage-wise, I believe one can only mullygrub in the morning - any other
time of day it's plain old laziness."

--Jezebel
kig...@peak.org

Pat Kight

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WareWolf wrote:

> At my office, we always refer to a day with a high bozo count as "Dingbats
> on Parade".

"Around here, that's just an average day with a high Bozocity Index."

--Jezebel
kig...@peak.org

Freyja

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Pat Kight <kig...@ucs.orst.edu> wrote in message news:38C58266...@ucs.orst.edu...


| > Erick Vermillion-Salsbury wrote:
| >
| > > Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
| > > see wide usage?

| "Oooh! Oooh! Reminds me of a term I'm pretty sure I learned from my mom,
| and have been spreading, meme-wise, ever since:
|
| "The food-stupids.
|
| "You know -- that dull-witted sensation that follows a heavy meal? As
| expressed on Thanksgiving Day: `Nah, let's not clear the table yet -
| I've got the food-stupids.'

Cool!

We called it puppy tummy. If you see puppies napping after being fed...

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John Vinson

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On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 23:57:43 GMT, "Freyja"
<lkpa...@cannedmeat.home.com> wrote:

>We called it puppy tummy.

ROFL... good one! <consider it stolen>

The Trinker

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pel...@centre.edu wrote:
[snippage]

> (1) Retrophrenology
> A charming Terry Pratchett concept. Phrenology was the nineteenth
> century "science," now discredited, of determining a person's
> personality by mapping the bumps on their head. Retrophrenology,
> logically enough, is the art of *changing* personality by producing
> *new* bumps on the head. When I use it in conversation, it's generally
> to state that someone seriously needs some.


OOOH! I like that one.

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Harry Cameron Andruschak

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>
>Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
>see wide usage?
>

No, but I'd like the term "to go postal" to fade away
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ri...@fastlane.net says...

>
>Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
>see wide usage?

One I've picked up from Werehatrack because it's so useful --
"having a case of The Slow."

You know, when there's no real *reason* for you not to be doing all the things
you need to be doing; you're not tired, you're not hurting, you're not
depressed, but somehow you just can't seem to get motivated...

Celine


Lee S. Billings

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cwes...@home.cannedmeat.com says...

>
>Erick Vermillion-Salsbury wrote:
>>
>> Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
>> see wide usage?
>
>Well, when one or more of the cats start dashing senselessly back
>and forth through the apartment, I look at Freyja and say "Flying
>Kitties From Mars!"

Ah yes, the Evil Chasies!

Celine


Earl P. Jones

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Erick Vermillion-Salsbury wrote:
>
> Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
> see wide usage?

There's one I picked up from my SCA household which was originally inspired
by a Bloom County strip:

"'Bark!' And again I say, 'Bark!'"

Meaning: "We've had this discussion so many times already that you know
what I'm going to say, and I know you know what I'm going to say, so let's
just consider it said." Usually interjected at the point where you realize
you're just repeating yourself.

It has the potential to save enormous amounts of time.

Earl Jones

pel...@centre.edu

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In article
<D4AEEE215832A0F0.82FF5F98...@lp.airnews.net>,

er...@concentric.net wrote:
> Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
> see wide usage?
>
> Aside from my wife and I constantly calling each other
> "spoose" -- which I can't believe is original with us --
> we've come up with another one I think is pretty cute:
>
> Near midnight, my brain usually becomes ...vegetative. By
> analogy with the story of Cinderella [1], we've taken to
> calling this "pumpkin time". As in, "No sense asking Rick
> complicated questions; it's past pumpkin time".
>
> I'm sure there are better ones out there :>
>
<snip>

Oh, lots, but I don't know that they're better. And most of them
are stolen, and a few of them may not qualify as slang. Still . . .

(1) Retrophrenology
A charming Terry Pratchett concept. Phrenology was the nineteenth
century "science," now discredited, of determining a person's
personality by mapping the bumps on their head. Retrophrenology,
logically enough, is the art of *changing* personality by producing
*new* bumps on the head. When I use it in conversation, it's generally
to state that someone seriously needs some.

(2) Kitten
'Nough said.

(3) Bad brain day
Like a bad hair day, but more common. These are days when you find
yourself asking quite seriously, "What day of the week is Thursday?"
The individual statements that tend to come out of your mouth on bad
brain days are

(4) Brain glitches

(5) Catupressure
The inalterable belief of many cats that to cure what ails you, all they
must do is seat themselves firmly on the afflicted part, with optional
purring, kneading, and shedding.

I could probably think of a few more and ramble on even further, but I'm
on the verge of a bad brain day. Night, all,

Izunya

Freyja

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John Vinson <jvi...@WysardOfInfo.com> wrote in message news:I6TFOHtNGa8sal...@4ax.com...

{smooch}

Freyja

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<pel...@centre.edu> wrote in message news:8a4g5u$oac$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...

|
| (5) Catupressure
| The inalterable belief of many cats that to cure what ails you, all they
| must do is seat themselves firmly on the afflicted part, with optional
| purring, kneading, and shedding.

{nab}

I like that one! Pixel does exactly that, though he seems to think purring is mandatory. Lung infections, urinary tract infections, back pain, abdominal cramping...

Well, with migraines, he gets alongside my head and gently purrs.

Joyce Melton

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Pat Kight <kig...@ucs.orst.edu> wrote:

>`Oh, not much, just mullygrubbing.'

Mullygrubbing, or mollygrubbing, I've heard also. Along with lollygag,
which is to dawdle or amble. Also loblolly, mudhole or other wet mess.

Joyce

Joyce Melton

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Erick Vermillion-Salsbury <ri...@fastlane.net> wrote:

>Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
>see wide usage?
>

Improctocephaly. A fake medical condition characterized by the victim
clearly having the cranial carapace firmly lodged in the anus. Comes
in both acute and chronic varieties.

Proctocrat. A bureaucrat that clearly hates the public and the job.

Momoarch. A fool in a position of power.

Proctophany. Everyone else can go home now, the asshole has arrived.

Proctogeny. The offspring of an asshole, bearing a strong family
resemblance.

Bezeek. Uniquely bizarre.

BMP. Boogie Most Profusely. Go fast.

MHP. Maximum humor potential. As a way of explaining something said
that was crass, humorously cruel or punny.

Liverwurst. This one takes a long story to explain...and it's late.

Joyce

WareWolf

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Pat Kight wrote in message <38C58266...@ucs.orst.edu>...

>"Oooh! Oooh! Reminds me of a term I'm pretty sure I learned from my mom,
>and have been spreading, meme-wise, ever since:
>
>"The food-stupids.
>
>"You know -- that dull-witted sensation that follows a heavy meal? As
>expressed on Thanksgiving Day: `Nah, let's not clear the table yet -
>I've got the food-stupids.'


Reminds me of another one of our private terms Chez WareWolf--"Sun-stun".
The sort of lazy, dazed feeling you get when you've been out in the sun all
day, like at the beach or an outdoor gathering. "Sorry, what were you
saying? I'm a little sun-stunned."

Anyone else experience this?

Dusty

WareWolf

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Earl P. Jones wrote in message <38C5BA31...@usit.net>...

>Erick Vermillion-Salsbury wrote:
>>
>> Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
>> see wide usage?
>
>There's one I picked up from my SCA household which was originally inspired
>by a Bloom County strip:
>
>"'Bark!' And again I say, 'Bark!'"
>
>Meaning: "We've had this discussion so many times already that you know
>what I'm going to say, and I know you know what I'm going to say, so let's
>just consider it said." Usually interjected at the point where you realize
>you're just repeating yourself.
>
>It has the potential to save enormous amounts of time.
>
>Earl Jones

Indeed. I nominate this for an Official Callahanian term.

Dusty


Karen Callahan

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Erick Vermillion-Salsbury wrote:

> Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
> see wide usage?
>

My DH and I use "Marx Brother" - We'll be in a bookstore, browsing
around... "Any luck?" "Nah - it's Marx Brothered" (Zeppo/Zippo):
Haven't found anything, don't wanna try further.

karen

Janet Miles

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Erick Vermillion-Salsbury <ri...@fastlane.net> wrote:
> Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
> see wide usage?

Some of these may already be common usage, I dunno.

Someone mentioned "Food Stupids" and "puppy tummy" -- I've always called it
"Fed Puppy Syndrome".

"Babblebox" for either TV or radio (I have a sneaking suspicion that's from
_SiaSL_).

"Leaded" and "Unleaded" for with/without caffeine.

"Photon alert" for "I'm about to turn on a light" and "Photons have mass!"
for "Aaagh! Why didn't you tell me you were about to turn on a light!?"

"0-dark-hundred" and "late-o'clock" for way too damn early and way too damn
late, respectively (former from McCaffery, latter from Doug and Ysabet).

TMI, kitten (from a.c.)

"Fleep" as a general all-purpose euphemism/cuss-word/interjection/emphasis
marker. Note that "fleep", like "fuck", can be conjugated: What the fleep?
Who in the fleeping hell...? Oh, for fleep's sake! etc.

"Fred" as a general all purpose fill-in-the-blank, like "thingamajig"
(probably from Sturgeon).

"Oogra" for (specifically) any vegetative matter, (generically) any topic in
which the listener has no real interest, but will be polite about for the
sake of the speaker, who is enthusiastic about it (from Anthony, by way of
Doug and Ysabet)

"Recognition" for "love and lust and wanna-be-with-forever at first sight"
(from ElfQuest).


Then there are all the things which aren't really slang, /per se/, but are
in-jokes that have acquired meanings beyond their original text, such as:

"You can't take three from two, two is less than three" for, depending on
context, "that is so far over my head you might as well not even bother
trying to explain it to me" or "oh, I see, there's no damn reason, it's
just our policy" (from Lehrer)

as well as a myriad of references to Monty Python, _ElfQuest_, _Star Trek_,
_Star Wars_, various buttons and bumper stickers, Babylon 5, etc., etc.,
etc. (from whatever the original title of _Anna and the King_ was).

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Yup. I am a sun-bunny at heart. Being a redhead who tans well sure helps.

I want warm weather and no migraine so I can bask in the sun. Now.

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Joyce Melton

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Janet Miles <jmi...@use.usit.net> wrote:

>"0-dark-hundred" and "late-o'clock" for way too damn early and way too damn
>late, respectively (former from McCaffery, latter from Doug and Ysabet).

"Dark thirty" for "it's getting late."

Joyce

Buddha Buck

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In article <cDvx4.6$75....@news1.usit.net>, Janet Miles <jmi...@use.usit.net>
wrote:

> Erick Vermillion-Salsbury <ri...@fastlane.net> wrote:
>> Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
>> see wide usage?
>
> Some of these may already be common usage, I dunno.
>
> "Babblebox" for either TV or radio (I have a sneaking suspicion that's from
> _SiaSL_).

I think that was SiaSL... I know "goddamnoisybox" is from SiaSL as well.



> "Leaded" and "Unleaded" for with/without caffeine.

same here...

>
> "Photon alert" for "I'm about to turn on a light" and "Photons have mass!"
> for "Aaagh! Why didn't you tell me you were about to turn on a light!?"

I use "Photon Alert", but when blinded by the light, I tend to use "Bright
Light! Bright Light!", spoken in an imitation of the good "gremlin" in the
movie "Gremlins".



> "Fred" as a general all purpose fill-in-the-blank, like "thingamajig"
> (probably from Sturgeon).

I use "fred" as well, and I don't think I've read that much Sturgeon.



> "Oogra" for (specifically) any vegetative matter, (generically) any topic in
> which the listener has no real interest, but will be polite about for the
> sake of the speaker, who is enthusiastic about it (from Anthony, by way of
> Doug and Ysabet)

I thought that Oogra was a Pratchettism -- Troll for "plant".

> JanetM


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Donna Leaf

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Optical rectumitis - otherwise known as a sh*tty outlook on things...

MM

Tom Luton

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"Erick Vermillion-Salsbury" <ri...@fastlane.net> wrote in message
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> Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
> see wide usage?

Lutiny- It's my family's term for what happens when the family
ignores/disagrees/reputes/etc. a decision made by the head of the family
(but doesn't really work, since it's family specific)

Example of Lutiny:
Head of the household: we're leaving at 6 am
Everyone else: Forget it!

The other term is a very old one that I've only recently been reminded of.
In elementary school, we students created our own word for when you needed
to swear, but couldn't cause you were right in front of the teacher. We
decided it had to be strange, and somewhat disgusting to indicate our
displeasure at whatever it was (i.e the end of recess), and yet not get us
sent to the principal's office. The word we came up with?

Boogernuggets

(it's amazing what you can think of in grade 1)

Janet Miles

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Buddha Buck <bmb...@14850.com> wrote:
>> "Oogra" for (specifically) any vegetative matter, (generically) any
>> topic in which the listener has no real interest, but will be polite
>> about for the sake of the speaker, who is enthusiastic about it (from
>> Anthony, by way of Doug and Ysabet)

> I thought that Oogra was a Pratchettism -- Troll for "plant".

Oh, quite likely. I couldn't remember if it was Pratchett or Anthony, and
couldn't remember trolls in the limited Pratchett I've read.

Pat Kight

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Joyce Melton wrote:
>
> Pat Kight <kig...@ucs.orst.edu> wrote:
>
> >`Oh, not much, just mullygrubbing.'
>
> Mullygrubbing, or mollygrubbing, I've heard also.

"Really??? You mean it's a real word??? Whoa ..."

Jez does a quick dance through the assorted lexicographica
www.onelist.com and damned if she doesn't come up with:

"Mollygrubbing : verb. to rest, lay about, recline, relax, dawdle.
alt. mullygrubbing. examples: "What are you doing?" "I'm jus'
mullygrubbin'." "When you jes' layin' back in a dark room with a cool
rag on your haid and your arm raise up to hold it on, and the shutters
closed, and you don't wanna see nobody, you're jes' a mullygrubbin.'"
Known Louisiana usage." (from the South Talkin' page at
http://members.xoom.com/south_talkin/)

"Which," says Jez, "makes a lot of sense, considering that my mother's
`people' hailed from Louisiana. Damn. How am I going to break this to my
siblings? Here we've grown up thinking it was one of mom's home-made
neologisms ..."

> Along with lollygag,
> which is to dawdle or amble. Also loblolly, mudhole or other wet mess.

"Loblolly's also a kind of pine - d'you supposed the name came from the
slang? And I see by one-look that British seamen use `loblolly' to refer
to gruel," says Jez. "Great words. Mollycoddle, too (while we're on the
"olly" sounding words) - to spoil someone by giving them too much
attention/protection."

The Spinster sits at her table smiling and merrily repeating to herself:
"Loblolly loblolly loblolly ..."

--Jezebel
damn, I love words
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Pat Kight

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> (4) Brain glitches

"In these parts, we refer to these as `brain farts,' " offers Jezebel,
who suffers them often enough that she's thought seriously of sticking
Gas-Ex in her ears ...

"And in another newsgroup, the same condition is widely referred to as
menofog ..." (-;

--Jezebel
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Jette Goldie

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"Looking for helicopters in the waste basket" - ie, shouting something
that sounds like "Huey!" into a container after too much imbibing <g>

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Chris Wesling

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Joyce Melton wrote:
>
> Liverwurst. This one takes a long story to explain...and it's late.

Some time when it's not so late, perhaps you would explain that one?
Would a BOYC help? <G>

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Chris Wesling

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Had a boss who used "oh-early-thirty" for way too damn early. I think that and
"oh-dark-hundred" are from military usage...

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Demi

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I'm a big fan of proctocranialmypoia... can see the truth cuz his
heads so far up his ass.
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Eleri

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:-o >Maraud. Obfuscating...
:-o >
*giggle* The Precocious 6 Year Old informed me the other day that I
couldn't tell her to clean her room, because I couldn't see her. Why?
Because she had her arms crossed over her chest. And I don't even
*play* that much!

El
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John Vinson

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On Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:00:02 -0000, "Jette Goldie"
<bosslad...@mydeja.com> wrote:

>"Looking for helicopters in the waste basket" - ie, shouting something
>that sounds like "Huey!" into a container after too much imbibing <g>

Something about this sets the Wysard off into a gale of helpless
laughter...

Eeeeeuuuwwwww....

Ari Baronofsky

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> I'm a big fan of proctocranialmypoia... can see the truth cuz his
> heads so far up his ass.


I've heard it referred to as an "anal-cranial inversion."

Sam Robinson

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My version of this is recto-cranial inversion. But I like
proctocranialmyopia.

SamR

Rick Davis

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pel...@centre.edu wrote:

>(4) Brain glitches

Known in the places I hang out as brain farts.

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Rick Davis

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Joyce Melton wrote:

>Janet Miles <jmi...@use.usit.net> wrote:
>
>>"0-dark-hundred" and "late-o'clock" for way too damn early and way too damn
>>late, respectively (former from McCaffery, latter from Doug and Ysabet).
>
>"Dark thirty" for "it's getting late."

I've always heard this as "Oh dark thirty," and I'm pretty sure I picked
it up in the Air Force where "surprise" exercises usually started around
0430 (oh four-thirty, 4:30 am).

Rick Davis

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Joyce Melton wrote:

>Improctocephaly. A fake medical condition characterized by the victim
>clearly having the cranial carapace firmly lodged in the anus. Comes
>in both acute and chronic varieties.

Cranio-rectile insertion is the way I've always heard it.

Eileen

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Joyce Melton wrote:
>
> Janet Miles <jmi...@use.usit.net> wrote:
>
> >"0-dark-hundred" and "late-o'clock" for way too damn early and way too damn
> >late, respectively (former from McCaffery, latter from Doug and Ysabet).
>
> "Dark thirty" for "it's getting late."

Interesting. I've always interpreted dark thirty as thirty minutes
after the glow from the sunset's gone... i.e. when the fire works start
on 7/4.

I've noticed a lot of these "wish they were in common use" seem to be
already, at least in certain circles. So what about warm fuzzy?
Personally as a grad student I tend to refer to a dollar as "2
cokes". As in "Wanna see a movie?" "Naw, that's 12 cokes, lets see
the matinee tomorrow instead."

-Eileen

Anne Gwin

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In article <38C73BA4...@tbear.tamu.edu>, Eileen
<winch...@tbear.tamu.edu> wrote:

> Personally as a grad student I tend to refer to a dollar as "2
> cokes". As in "Wanna see a movie?" "Naw, that's 12 cokes, lets see

Yet another thing I miss about aTm and hate about t.u.! Cokes here cost
*sixty* cents, and you can't have a machine-lunch for $1 anymore.

Anne

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Freyja

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Sam Robinson <sams...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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When I am being kind, I mutter something about "self-proctoscopies".

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Chris Wesling <cwes...@home.cannedmeat.com> wrote in message
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| Joyce Melton wrote:
| >
| > Janet Miles <jmi...@use.usit.net> wrote:
| >
| > >"0-dark-hundred" and "late-o'clock" for way too damn early and way too
damn
| > >late, respectively (former from McCaffery, latter from Doug and
Ysabet).
| >
| > "Dark thirty" for "it's getting late."
|
| Had a boss who used "oh-early-thirty" for way too damn early. I think
that and
| "oh-dark-hundred" are from military usage...

I got "oh-dark-hundred" from my dad. You remember him... the Green Beret
who contributed the pun gene to my chromosomes...

The Berean

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In article <38C6DC18...@home.cannedmeat.com>, Chris Wesling
<cwes...@home.cannedmeat.com> writes:

>
>> >"0-dark-hundred" and "late-o'clock" for way too damn early and way too
>damn
>> >late, respectively (former from McCaffery, latter from Doug and Ysabet).
>>
>> "Dark thirty" for "it's getting late."
>
>Had a boss who used "oh-early-thirty" for way too damn early. I think that
>and
>"oh-dark-hundred" are from military usage...

I tend to use '0-my-God-it's-early-in-the-morning!' when it's early that early.
Stolen, of course, from "Good Morning, Vietnam."

The Berean
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Alison

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Janet Miles <jmi...@use.usit.net> wrote on Wed, 08 Mar 2000 16:56:40
GMT:

<snip>
>TMI, kitten (from a.c.)
<snip>

Alison flutters down from the rafters and raises her hand.

"Um....what exactly *does* kitten mean? I've seen it used, but I have
two conflicting (and equally amusing) visuals to go with it..."

Alison
(remove 'SPAMKILL' from address to reply)

Janet Miles

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Alison <har...@SPAMKILLhis.com> wrote:
> "Um....what exactly *does* kitten mean? I've seen it used, but I have
> two conflicting (and equally amusing) visuals to go with it..."

"To kitten" is to spew a mouthful of beverage as a result of a startled
laugh, usually in relation to Usenet, but not always. It does not require
that the substance in question pass through the nose, distinguishing this
verb from the UNIX construct "C|N>K" (which translates to "Coke through the
Nose to the Keyboard").

"To kitten" is derived from alt.callahans's kitten trumpinski-roberts, who
has a tendency to do same (and admit to it :-) ).

Just out of curiosity, what were your visuals for the phrase?

Liana Olear

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Chris Wesling <cwes...@home.cannedmeat.com> writes:

: Joyce Melton wrote:
: >
: > Janet Miles <jmi...@use.usit.net> wrote:
: >
: > >"0-dark-hundred" and "late-o'clock" for way too damn early and way too damn

: > >late, respectively (former from McCaffery, latter from Doug and Ysabet).
: >
: > "Dark thirty" for "it's getting late."

: Had a boss who used "oh-early-thirty" for way too damn early. I think that and
: "oh-dark-hundred" are from military usage...

I am not certain, but I think I piced up "oh-dark-thirty" from working in
a building-full of ex-military. At least I don't remember using it
before. (Which doesn't mean I didn't).

Liana

Liana Olear

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Eleri <el...@aracnet.com> writes:

: *giggle* The Precocious 6 Year Old informed me the other day that I


: couldn't tell her to clean her room, because I couldn't see her. Why?
: Because she had her arms crossed over her chest. And I don't even
: *play* that much!

*giggle* So did you raise your finger to your eyes and inform her so you
can see her _now_, or did you mention that her speaking breaks the effect?

Liana,
who's helped run too many LARPs.

The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe)

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The Berean wrote:
> In article <38C6DC18...@home.cannedmeat.com>, Chris Wesling <cwes...@home.cannedmeat.com> writes:

> >> >"0-dark-hundred" and "late-o'clock" for way too damn early and way too
> >damn
> >> >late, respectively (former from McCaffery, latter from Doug and Ysabet).
> >>
> >> "Dark thirty" for "it's getting late."
> >
> >Had a boss who used "oh-early-thirty" for way too damn early. I think that
> >and
> >"oh-dark-hundred" are from military usage...
>

> I tend to use '0-my-God-it's-early-in-the-morning!' when it's early that early.
> Stolen, of course, from "Good Morning, Vietnam."

I use 0-dawn-thirty for early in the morning and "the crack of noon" for
getting out of bed late.

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Janet Miles wrote:
> Alison <har...@SPAMKILLhis.com> wrote:
> > "Um....what exactly *does* kitten mean? I've seen it used, but I have
> > two conflicting (and equally amusing) visuals to go with it..."
>
> "To kitten" is to spew a mouthful of beverage as a result of a startled
> laugh, usually in relation to Usenet, but not always. ...

This is known in the trade as a "spit take."

Alison

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Janet Miles <jmi...@use.usit.net> wrote on Thu, 09 Mar 2000 14:37:02
GMT:

>Alison <har...@SPAMKILLhis.com> wrote:
>> "Um....what exactly *does* kitten mean? I've seen it used, but I have
>> two conflicting (and equally amusing) visuals to go with it..."
>
>"To kitten" is to spew a mouthful of beverage as a result of a startled

>laugh, usually in relation to Usenet, but not always. It does not require
>that the substance in question pass through the nose, distinguishing this
>verb from the UNIX construct "C|N>K" (which translates to "Coke through the
>Nose to the Keyboard").
>
>"To kitten" is derived from alt.callahans's kitten trumpinski-roberts, who
>has a tendency to do same (and admit to it :-) ).
>
>Just out of curiosity, what were your visuals for the phrase?

"Thanks, Janet. BOYC?"

"I was actually dead on with one of my visuals. The other was just
about opposite: delicate lapping at <insert BOYC here> in the manner a
cat drinks water from a dish. That one was brought on by a post where
"Banshee kitten(ed) her Darjeeling" and followed it with a witticism
of some sort. "

"I just had this picture of Banshee sitting in an enormous velvet
chair, sipping her tea and smiling like the proverbial cat with the
canary. " <grin>

Alison, no stranger to kittening, as it happens

Pat Kight

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"The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe)" wrote:
>

> I use 0-dawn-thirty for early in the morning and "the crack of noon" for
> getting out of bed late.

Jezebel grins and cocks an eyebrow.

"Tom Waits fan by any chance?"

--Jezebel
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Pat Kight

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Chris Wesling wrote:

>
> Pat Kight wrote:
> >
> > "The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe)" wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > I use 0-dawn-thirty for early in the morning and "the crack of
> > > noon" for getting out of bed late.
> >
> > Jezebel grins and cocks an eyebrow.
> >
> > "Tom Waits fan by any chance?"
>
> Actually, "the crack of noon" originally came from _Auntie Mame_,
> IIRC.

*grin*

"And I oughta know that, since I uttered the line myself in a community
college production a few years back ...

"But I still hear Tom Waits' `Better Off Without a Wife' when I see the
phrase ...

"Well I've been sleepin' till the crack of noon
Midnights, howlin' at the moon
Goin' out when I want to and
Comin' home when I can ..."

--Jez
kig...@peak.org

Joyce Melton

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Pat Kight <kig...@ucs.orst.edu> wrote:

>"Loblolly's also a kind of pine - d'you supposed the name came from the
>slang? And I see by one-look that British seamen use `loblolly' to refer
>to gruel," says Jez. "Great words. Mollycoddle, too (while we're on the
>"olly" sounding words) - to spoil someone by giving them too much
>attention/protection."
>
>The Spinster sits at her table smiling and merrily repeating to herself:
>"Loblolly loblolly loblolly ..."

I had thought that loblolly was just a child's misprounuciation of
hogwallow until I ran across it in a dictionary. :) Odd that no
dictionary I have found lists the most common usage of the word that I
have heard: mudhole.

Joyce


Joyce Melton

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"The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe)" <poly...@pacbell.net> wrote:

>The Berean wrote:
>> In article <38C6DC18...@home.cannedmeat.com>, Chris Wesling <cwes...@home.cannedmeat.com> writes:
>
>> >> >"0-dark-hundred" and "late-o'clock" for way too damn early and way too
>> >damn
>> >> >late, respectively (former from McCaffery, latter from Doug and Ysabet).
>> >>
>> >> "Dark thirty" for "it's getting late."
>> >
>> >Had a boss who used "oh-early-thirty" for way too damn early. I think that
>> >and
>> >"oh-dark-hundred" are from military usage...
>>
>> I tend to use '0-my-God-it's-early-in-the-morning!' when it's early that early.
>> Stolen, of course, from "Good Morning, Vietnam."
>

>I use 0-dawn-thirty for early in the morning and "the crack of noon" for
>getting out of bed late.

"blunch" for eating breakfast after 12 noon
"blinner" for eating it after 4 pm :)

Joyce

Chris Wesling

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Pat Kight wrote:
>
> "The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe)" wrote:
> >
>
> > I use 0-dawn-thirty for early in the morning and "the crack of
> > noon" for getting out of bed late.
>
> Jezebel grins and cocks an eyebrow.
>
> "Tom Waits fan by any chance?"

Actually, "the crack of noon" originally came from _Auntie Mame_,
IIRC.

Not to be confused, of course, with the Crack of Doom, from Tolkien...
;-)

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pel...@centre.edu

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In article <38C6C069...@ucs.orst.edu>,

kig...@peak.org wrote:
> pel...@centre.edu wrote:
>
> > (4) Brain glitches
>
> "In these parts, we refer to these as `brain farts,' " offers Jezebel,
> who suffers them often enough that she's thought seriously of sticking
> Gas-Ex in her ears ...
>
> "And in another newsgroup, the same condition is widely referred to as
> menofog ..." (-;
>
Izunya grins. "See, I've always used 'brain farts,' to refer to the
random ideas, tangents, and half-assed notions that pop into my head on
a regular basis. (Some of these go so far beyond half-assed that they
become quarter-assed, one-eighth-assed, or completely assless.) Brain
glitches, although similar, refers to the mixed up things that pop out
of my mouth without any thought whatsoever behind them. I suppose it
says something about me that I've developed an entire vocabulary to talk
about precisely how I'm expressing my normal brain-fried state at any
one point in time . . . oh, there's another one. Brain-fried.
"Maybe I shouldn't be taking two seminars this semester . . ."

Izunya


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WareWolf

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Jette Goldie wrote in message <8a6gpt$6gh$2...@supernews.com>...

>"Looking for helicopters in the waste basket" - ie, shouting something
>that sounds like "Huey!" into a container after too much imbibing <g>
>
>Jette Goldie
>


ROTFL!

Of course, there are any number of slang terms for this activity. "Barking
at ants", "The Technicolor Yawn" and "The Big Spit" (Hunter Thompson) were
always my favorites.

Until now.

Dusty

VirtualBabe

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"Erick Vermillion-Salsbury" took computer in hand to make the following
inquiry one day at Callahans

> Folks, do you have any pet slang terms that you'd like to
> see wide usage?
>
I'm not sure if this one qualifies, but I have met people at times who
required an oral-pedectomy. In fact, I have needed that myself once or
twice.
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"WareWolf" <dus...@ac.net> writes:

Talking to God on the big white telephone.


Indiana Joe

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In article <8a8rge$2ao$1...@nnrp02.primenet.com>, Liana Olear
<li...@primenet.com> wrote:

>I am not certain, but I think I piced up "oh-dark-thirty" from working in
>a building-full of ex-military. At least I don't remember using it
>before. (Which doesn't mean I didn't).

The phrase I've heard from a friend of mine is, "the butt crack of
dawn". Too freaking early. :-)

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Indiana Joe :

> The phrase I've heard from a friend of mine is, "the butt crack of
> dawn". Too freaking early. :-)

Also known as "The first sparrow fart in the morning."

maenad (got that from my best friend's dad. *g*)
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Joyce Melton <jo...@qnez.com> writes:

: "blunch" for eating breakfast after 12 noon


: "blinner" for eating it after 4 pm :)

I like it! Is there a word for having your second meal of the day at
11:30 pm, having "breakfast-type" food?

Liana,
who has breakfast first thing in the morning, but other meals are
questionable.

Joyce Melton

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"WareWolf" <dus...@ac.net> wrote:

>Of course, there are any number of slang terms for this activity. "Barking
>at ants", "The Technicolor Yawn" and "The Big Spit" (Hunter Thompson) were
>always my favorites.

Praying to the God of Porcelain.

Joyce

Joyce Melton

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Liana Olear <li...@primenet.com> wrote:

>I like it! Is there a word for having your second meal of the day at
>11:30 pm, having "breakfast-type" food?

<g> "Blupper?"

Joyce

barbara trumpinski-roberts

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> Janet Miles <jmi...@use.usit.net> wrote on Wed, 08 Mar 2000 16:56:40
> GMT:
>
> <snip>
> >TMI, kitten (from a.c.)
> <snip>
>
> Alison flutters down from the rafters and raises her hand.
>
> "Um....what exactly *does* kitten mean? I've seen it used, but I have
> two conflicting (and equally amusing) visuals to go with it..."

kitten spits pepsi all over the Place, just to demonstrate.

"actually, to kitten means to get so tickled about something that someone
has said that you spray the contents of your mouth all over (the monitor,
the person standing across from you, random bystanders, etc).

people started using it because, back in the dark ages when i was hanging
out in the primordial ooze that used to be callahans (1991 is when i
started) i used to giggle and post that i had spit my pepsi on the screen.
this got adopted as a catch phrase....

if i have the story wrong, i'm sure someone will correct me."

(i also used to drink micelob dark and wear raggedy denim shorts)


/\ /\ 'your heart is pure, and your mind clear,
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http://members.tripod.com/~barbarakitten


barbara trumpinski-roberts

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allison:
> "I was actually dead on with one of my visuals. The other was just
> about opposite: delicate lapping at <insert BOYC here> in the manner a
> cat drinks water from a dish. That one was brought on by a post where
> "Banshee kitten(ed) her Darjeeling" and followed it with a witticism
> of some sort. "
>
> "I just had this picture of Banshee sitting in an enormous velvet
> chair, sipping her tea and smiling like the proverbial cat with the
> canary. " <grin>
>
> Alison, no stranger to kittening, as it happens

kitten grins...."ooooh, i like this. i could kitten icecream as well as
tea....or chocolate covered strawberries."

Matthew T. Russotto

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In article <8a8rge$2ao$1...@nnrp02.primenet.com>,

Liana Olear <li...@primenet.com> wrote:
}
}I am not certain, but I think I piced up "oh-dark-thirty" from working in
}a building-full of ex-military. At least I don't remember using it
}before. (Which doesn't mean I didn't).

I definitely picked up "oh-dark-thirty" from someone ex-military --
ex-Air Force to be specific.


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The Big Boss Borg

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Awakening from a fever-dream filled with Nutella and smoke in
alt.callahans, I thought I heard pel...@centre.edu say:

>In article <38C6C069...@ucs.orst.edu>,
> kig...@peak.org wrote:
>> pel...@centre.edu wrote:
>>
>> > (4) Brain glitches
>>
>> "In these parts, we refer to these as `brain farts,' " offers Jezebel,
>> who suffers them often enough that she's thought seriously of sticking
>> Gas-Ex in her ears ...
>>
>> "And in another newsgroup, the same condition is widely referred to as
>> menofog ..." (-;
>>
> Izunya grins. "See, I've always used 'brain farts,' to refer to the
> random ideas, tangents, and half-assed notions that pop into my head on
>a regular basis.

I use "brain farts" to mean sudden loss of ability to use higher brain
functions. Similarly, a brain fart that occurs because one is given
too much information at once is a "bandwidth shortage."

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The Big Boss Borg

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Awakening from a fever-dream filled with Nutella and smoke in
alt.callahans, I thought I heard "WareWolf" <dus...@ac.net> say:

>
>Jette Goldie wrote in message <8a6gpt$6gh$2...@supernews.com>...
>>"Looking for helicopters in the waste basket" - ie, shouting something
>>that sounds like "Huey!" into a container after too much imbibing <g>
>>
>ROTFL!

>
>Of course, there are any number of slang terms for this activity. "Barking
>at ants", "The Technicolor Yawn" and "The Big Spit" (Hunter Thompson) were
>always my favorites.

aka "Calling Joel on the big porcelain phone."

(My least favorite is "Carrot Soup.")

John Vinson

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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 00:20:29 GMT, Joyce Melton <jo...@qnez.com> wrote:

>I had thought that loblolly was just a child's misprounuciation of
>hogwallow until I ran across it in a dictionary. :) Odd that no
>dictionary I have found lists the most common usage of the word that I
>have heard: mudhole.

Hrm. I wonder if loblolly pines grow particularly well in swampy
areas.

John Vinson

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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:23:28 -0600, barbara trumpinski-roberts
<kit...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>people started using it because, back in the dark ages when i was hanging
>out in the primordial ooze that used to be callahans (1991 is when i
>started) i used to giggle and post that i had spit my pepsi on the screen.
>this got adopted as a catch phrase....
>
>if i have the story wrong, i'm sure someone will correct me."

John the Wysard (who remembers that era fondly) says, "Sounds just
about right to me, sweetie!"

WareWolf

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Joyce Melton wrote in message ...

>"WareWolf" <dus...@ac.net> wrote:
>
>>Of course, there are any number of slang terms for this activity. "Barking
>>at ants", "The Technicolor Yawn" and "The Big Spit" (Hunter Thompson) were
>>always my favorites.
>
>Praying to the God of Porcelain.
>
>Joyce

Driving the big white Buick.

Dusty

Indiana Joe

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In article <scit3i...@news.supernews.com>, "WareWolf"
<dus...@mail.ac.net> wrote:

>Driving the big white Buick.

Calling the car (aka Ralph's Buick). I recall a short story where it
was refered to as, "yelling New York".

Freyja

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Indiana Joe <jr...@home.com> wrote in message
news:jrc3-2FC91D.17393310032000@news...

| In article <scit3i...@news.supernews.com>, "WareWolf"
| <dus...@mail.ac.net> wrote:
|
| >Driving the big white Buick.
|
| Calling the car (aka Ralph's Buick). I recall a short story where it
| was refered to as, "yelling New York".

Ah, Ralph. Let's not forget his brother, Earl.

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Karen Callahan

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Pat Kight wrote:

> > (4) Brain glitches
>
> "In these parts, we refer to these as `brain farts,' " offers Jezebel,
> who suffers them often enough that she's thought seriously of sticking
> Gas-Ex in her ears ...
>

<rofl> Jez, can I steal that? I love it! BOYC? Death by Chocolate?
Virtual backrub?

karen

WareWolf

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The Big Boss Borg wrote in message <38d37085...@news.inch.com>...

>Awakening from a fever-dream filled with Nutella and smoke in
>alt.callahans, I thought I heard "WareWolf" <dus...@ac.net> say:
>>
>>Jette Goldie wrote in message <8a6gpt$6gh$2...@supernews.com>...
>>>"Looking for helicopters in the waste basket" - ie, shouting something
>>>that sounds like "Huey!" into a container after too much imbibing <g>
>>>
>>ROTFL!
>>
>>Of course, there are any number of slang terms for this activity. "Barking
>>at ants", "The Technicolor Yawn" and "The Big Spit" (Hunter Thompson) were
>>always my favorites.
>
>aka "Calling Joel on the big porcelain phone."
>
>(My least favorite is "Carrot Soup.")
>
>--Elocutus


I can't imagine why.

Dusty

This week's column:
http://www.booksnbytes.com/dustyrhoades/columns/2000/2000_03_06.html

Jette Goldie

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barbara trumpinski-roberts wrote in message ...

>allison:
>> "I was actually dead on with one of my visuals. The other was just
>> about opposite: delicate lapping at <insert BOYC here> in the manner a
>> cat drinks water from a dish. That one was brought on by a post where
>> "Banshee kitten(ed) her Darjeeling" and followed it with a witticism
>> of some sort. "
>>
>> "I just had this picture of Banshee sitting in an enormous velvet
>> chair, sipping her tea and smiling like the proverbial cat with the
>> canary. " <grin>
>>
>> Alison, no stranger to kittening, as it happens
>
>kitten grins...."ooooh, i like this. i could kitten icecream as well as
>tea....or chocolate covered strawberries."
>

I learned a long time ago on my first newsgroup that "beverages
and the internet do NOT go together".

(friends don't let friends drink and post <g>)

Jette Goldie

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Janet D. Miles

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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 07:55:24 -0500, in alt.callahans WareWolf wrote:

> Of course, there are any number of slang terms for this activity. "Barking
> at ants", "The Technicolor Yawn" and "The Big Spit" (Hunter Thompson) were
> always my favorites.

"Display lunch".

JanetM
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The Trinker

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"Lee S. Billings" wrote:
>
> In article <38d37085...@news.inch.com>, Elocutu...@hotmail.com
> says...


> >
> >Awakening from a fever-dream filled with Nutella and smoke in
> >alt.callahans, I thought I heard "WareWolf" <dus...@ac.net> say:
> >>
> >>Jette Goldie wrote in message <8a6gpt$6gh$2...@supernews.com>...
> >>>"Looking for helicopters in the waste basket" - ie, shouting something
> >>>that sounds like "Huey!" into a container after too much imbibing <g>
> >>>
> >>ROTFL!
> >>

> >>Of course, there are any number of slang terms for this activity. "Barking
> >>at ants", "The Technicolor Yawn" and "The Big Spit" (Hunter Thompson) were
> >>always my favorites.
> >

> >aka "Calling Joel on the big porcelain phone."
> >
> >(My least favorite is "Carrot Soup.")
>

> Hmmm... given my visceral reaction to the concept of carrot soup, I think I
> *like* that one!
>
> Celine (who refers to any miscellaneous illness that's not a cold as "a case of
> the Twitching Awfuls" -- but that came out of a book)

The Trinker carefully notes that she shouldn't serve her carrot
soup to Celine.

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In article <38d2702c...@news.inch.com>, Elocutu...@hotmail.com
says...
>
>Awakening from a fever-dream filled with Nutella and smoke in
>alt.callahans, I thought I heard pel...@centre.edu say:
>>In article <38C6C069...@ucs.orst.edu>,
>> kig...@peak.org wrote:
>>> pel...@centre.edu wrote:
>>>
>>> > (4) Brain glitches
>>>
>>> "In these parts, we refer to these as `brain farts,' " offers Jezebel,
>>> who suffers them often enough that she's thought seriously of sticking
>>> Gas-Ex in her ears ...
>>>
>>> "And in another newsgroup, the same condition is widely referred to as
>>> menofog ..." (-;
>>>
>> Izunya grins. "See, I've always used 'brain farts,' to refer to the
>> random ideas, tangents, and half-assed notions that pop into my head on
>>a regular basis.
>
>I use "brain farts" to mean sudden loss of ability to use higher brain
>functions. Similarly, a brain fart that occurs because one is given
>too much information at once is a "bandwidth shortage."

I think your first usage is what I call "my <x> circuit is offline".

Celine


Lee S. Billings

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In article <38d37085...@news.inch.com>, Elocutu...@hotmail.com
says...
>
>Awakening from a fever-dream filled with Nutella and smoke in

Kerry J. Renaissance

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I don't know if it's slang that I'd care for everyone to use, but I
think alt.callahanians might appreciate this.

Ours is a multi-cat household: the fat gray one, the old pushy one,
the fluffy black one, and the "kitchen". You see, one night when my
speaking was going off-line and my fiance's wasn't doing much better,
we engaged in a bit of play. I wanted to threaten to hang the kitten
from his nipple ring -- but what I said was "hang a kitchen on his
nipple ring". Now _everyone_ in the house uses it. Soon, of course,
she won't be a kitchen anymore; she'll be a full-grown catch. The
term is starting to be applied to our grown felines now.

It was a very odd night. That same night, my fiance offered to get
the warm blankets from the fridge (thoughts crossing wires there), and
he became my furby burby man. You see, he'd attempted to call himself
a "furry burly" man, but said "furly burly". After much laughter, _I_
tried to call him furly burly, but it came "furby burby".


Liana Olear

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Joyce Melton <jo...@qnez.com> writes:
: Liana Olear <li...@primenet.com> wrote:

: >I like it! Is there a word for having your second meal of the day at


: >11:30 pm, having "breakfast-type" food?

: <g> "Blupper?"

Sounds about right - most definitely makes me think of anything one is
likely to get at Perkins, Dennys and other similar places. :)

Liana

The Killick

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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 22:00:17 GMT, Elocutu...@hotmail.com (The Big
Boss Borg) wrote:

snip of cerebral gaseousness

>> Izunya grins. "See, I've always used 'brain farts,' to refer to the
>> random ideas, tangents, and half-assed notions that pop into my head on
>>a regular basis.
>
>I use "brain farts" to mean sudden loss of ability to use higher brain
>functions. Similarly, a brain fart that occurs because one is given
>too much information at once is a "bandwidth shortage."
>

>--Elocutus
>===
Where I work, we get CRAFT syndrome (Can't Remember A F***ing Thing)

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