"Pulling a Brody"
Terence P Higgins
From article <max_crittenden-...@128.18.80.49>, by max_cri...@qm.lanka.com (Max Crittenden):
> Curious. To me (born in 1953, grew up in the San Francisco Bay
Area) a Brody or Brodie was a sharp 180-degree turn on a bicycle
or motorcycle, made by putting one foot down and skidding the rear
tire. Anyone else know this meaning, or any others?
Fans of the NBC TV series Homocide are likely to think of it as
shooting off a weapon from your house for no reason...
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David Hatunen
In article <344ea367...@netnews.worldnet.att.net>,
Kolaga <Xiuhtecuht...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>I was watching the 1946 hard-boiled detective film DARK CORNER
>and there's this scene where someone falls out of a window (forty
>floors to the pavement). A taxi driver says "I didn't know he was
>going to pull a Brody."
>
>So I'm puzzled but I figure from context that "pulling a Brody"
>had to do with jumping from a high place. Well along comes
>a short feature, MGM's "Passing Parade", this one directed by
>that irascible English pipe-smoker, Edward L. Cahn. The script
>debunks several urban legends -- history, actually. Brody supposedly
>jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge. The film says he was at a bar
>drinking a beer at the time.
Whether he actually did it or not, "doing a Brody" as in jumping from a high
place comes from the Brody who supposedly jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge --
and lived.
>Also, the first President of the U.S. was some nobody. At least, no
>one I ever heard of. It was a different constitution. Pre 1784 or
>something.
Hanson. First President of Congress under the Articles of Confederation.
That's not exactly a "nobody".
(Furrfu. "Different constitution". Don't they teach nothin' these days?)
Dave "The Northwest Ordinance regulated parking at an airline terminal"
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paul johnson <paul...@mtnhome.com> wrote:
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> Steve Brodie in 1886 claimed to have jumped off the Brooklyn
>Bridge.
If Steve Brodie *claimed* to have jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, then
the chance exists, that midflight, he made a U-turn and survived.
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David Hatunen wrote:
> Whether he actually did it or not, "doing a Brody" as in jumping from a high
> place comes from the Brody who supposedly jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge --
> and lived.
But it's often used now of suicides who succeed in the attempt. I've
heard "taking" a Brodie, and "doing" a Brodie before, but "pulling" a
Brodie is new to me. Clearly they all mean the same thing, as Mr.
Hatunen describes.
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Amicus Constantini
In article <62o99d$e...@uwm.edu>, th...@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu (Terence P Higgins)
wrote:
>I am the God of Hamsters and I sentence you to CHEW!
"NO! NO CHEW!"
- uttered by the trainer of Bart the Bear (appearing in Grizzly Adams, Clan
of the Cave Bear, et al.), as the trainer wrestled with his keep, his arm in
the bear's mouth. Taped from some TV docu on grizzlies.
Rodger Coghlan
Max Crittenden wrote:
>
> In article <344ea367...@netnews.worldnet.att.net>,
> Xiuhtecuht...@worldnet.att.net (delete SPAMMENOT to reply by
> e-mail) wrote:
>
> > I was watching the 1946 hard-boiled detective film DARK CORNER
> > and there's this scene where someone falls out of a window (forty
> > floors to the pavement). A taxi driver says "I didn't know he was
> > going to pull a Brody."
> >
> > So I'm puzzled but I figure from context that "pulling a Brody"
> > had to do with jumping from a high place.
>
> Area) a Brody or Brodie was a sharp 180-degree turn on a bicycle
> or motorcycle, made by putting one foot down and skidding the rear
> tire. Anyone else know this meaning, or any others?
>
> Max Crittenden Menlo Park, California
> For e-mail, replace "lanka" with the other part
> of the name of that island nation south of India.
growing up in Montana doing/spinning/pulling brodies meant making 360
deg circles on ice or snow in a car, pivoting on the front wheels.
Rodger
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peter krynicki
Max Crittenden wrote:
>
> > I was watching the 1946 hard-boiled detective film DARK CORNER
> > and there's this scene where someone falls out of a window (forty
> > floors to the pavement). A taxi driver says "I didn't know he was
> > going to pull a Brody."
> >
> > So I'm puzzled but I figure from context that "pulling a Brody"
> > had to do with jumping from a high place.
>
Wellllllll. Did you ever think you knew the answer to a question but you
don't know how you know it? So you can't really give a citation? Anyway,
wasn't the first person to jump off either the Golden Gate Bridge or the
Brooklyn Bridge and survive named ????? Brodie?
Pjk
Bruce Tindall
In article <3450A2...@cylogixnt1.morgan.com>,
peter krynicki <pet...@cylogixnt1.morgan.com> wrote:
>wasn't the first person to jump off either the Golden Gate Bridge or the
>Brooklyn Bridge and survive named ????? Brodie?
Robinson.
B "I found the kees that unlock the mystery! Welldone!" T
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Vic K.
bizbee wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 12:27:56 -0800, max_cri...@qm.lanka.com (Max
> Crittenden) wrote:
>
> >> So I'm puzzled but I figure from context that "pulling a Brody"
> >> had to do with jumping from a high place.
> >
> >Area) a Brody or Brodie was a sharp 180-degree turn on a bicycle
> >or motorcycle, made by putting one foot down and skidding the rear
> >tire. Anyone else know this meaning, or any others?
> >
> > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> >Max Crittenden Menlo Park, California
> >For e-mail, replace "lanka" with the other part
> >of the name of that island nation south of India.
>
Having lived in So. California, I have seen and used the spelling
"Broadie" to describe *any* 2 or 4 wheeled vehicle that goes into a high
speed skid up to and including a spin-out. Could "Brody" and "Broadie"
have two differnent origins since the one describes a jumper and the
other a skidding vehicle?
Vic K.
John Varela
In <34515B...@erols.com>, "Vic K." <vko...@erols.com> writes:
>bizbee wrote:
>speed skid up to and including a spin-out. Could "Brody" and "Broadie"
>have two differnent origins since the one describes a jumper and the
>other a skidding vehicle?
Wasn't it "Diamond Jim" BrAdy who survived a jump from the Golden Gate or some
other big bridge? ^
I vaguely recall a movie about him circa 1950.
John Varela
(delete . between os2 and bbs to e-mail me)
Lunemere
j...@os2.bbs.com (John Varela) wrote:
>
>Wasn't it "Diamond Jim" BrAdy who survived a jump from the Golden Gate or
>some
>other big bridge? ^
That wandering caret is supposed to pointing to the "A" in "BrAdy" -- AOL
hasn't the foggiest idea where to put it and I won't vouch for where it will
have wound up when your newsreader gets hold of *this* post.
>
>I vaguely recall a movie about him circa 1950.
Vague, indeed. Diamond Jim Brady was a notorious gambler and glutton of the
late nineteenth century.
Brody did the bridge, and it was the Brooklyn Bridge, not the Golden Gate.
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Dan Murray
For reference, check out the Wallace beery movie, THE BOWERY which, in
part, dealt with Steve Brody's famous "jump" from the Brooklyn Bridge
[it was also purportedly a hoax and he never jumped] Isthe Brody
motorcycle turn almost suicidal???...djm
rmk
In article <34515B...@erols.com>, vko...@erols.com wrote:
+bizbee wrote:
+>
+> On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 12:27:56 -0800, max_cri...@qm.lanka.com (Max
+> Crittenden) wrote:
+>
+> >> So I'm puzzled but I figure from context that "pulling a Brody"
+> >> had to do with jumping from a high place.
+> >
+> >Curious. To me (born in 1953, grew up in the San Francisco Bay
+> >Area) a Brody or Brodie was a sharp 180-degree turn on a bicycle
+> >or motorcycle, made by putting one foot down and skidding the rear
+> >tire. Anyone else know this meaning, or any others?
+> >
+> > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
+> >Max Crittenden Menlo Park, California
+> >For e-mail, replace "lanka" with the other part
+> >of the name of that island nation south of India.
+>
+> Fear not, you aren't alone. This is the meaning I'm familiar with too.
+
+ Having lived in So. California, I have seen and used the spelling
+"Broadie" to describe *any* 2 or 4 wheeled vehicle that goes into a high
+speed skid up to and including a spin-out. Could "Brody" and "Broadie"
+have two differnent origins since the one describes a jumper and the
+other a skidding vehicle?
+
+Vic K.
Predating power steering in automobiles I remember a Brody Knob attached
to the steering wheel to facilate one handed driving and often a
significant contributor to "pulling a Brody", intentional or un.
...rmk
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Lon Stowell
rmk <r...@mindless.com> wrote:
> Predating power steering in automobiles I remember a Brody Knob attached
>to the steering wheel to facilate one handed driving and often a
>significant contributor to "pulling a Brody", intentional or un.
>
Never heard them called Brody knobs. Usually called 'necker knobs'
or more formally "J. C. Whitney Necker Knob" with another variant
paying attention to your mention of unintentional turns, the
"J. C. Whitney Suicide Knob". Haven't the foggiest what they
were really called in the old Warshavsky [sp?] catalog.
John Varela
In <345e74c8...@news.mindspring.com>, njk...@mindspringerspaniel.com (Mimi Kahn) writes:
>On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 00:10:09 -0700, r...@mindless.com (rmk) wrote:
>
>> Predating power steering in automobiles I remember a Brody Knob attached
>>to the steering wheel to facilate one handed driving and often a
>>significant contributor to "pulling a Brody", intentional or un.
>
>definitely there to facilitate one-handed driving.
We called it a suicide knob because of the likelihood of catching your sleeve
on it. Only teen-aged beginning drivers used them. I had one.
John "briefly" Varela
Mike Czaplinski
Mimi Kahn wrote:
>
> On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 00:10:09 -0700, r...@mindless.com (rmk) wrote:
>
> > Predating power steering in automobiles I remember a Brody Knob attached
> >to the steering wheel to facilate one handed driving and often a
> >significant contributor to "pulling a Brody", intentional or un.
>
> That was called a "necker knob" last time I saw one, but it was
> definitely there to facilitate one-handed driving.
My dad (who was a 50's era hot rodder) used to call it a suicide knob.
Mike "It certainly gives Russian Roulette a Detroit groove" Czaplinski
ekim.czaplinski<at>washingtoncd.rcn.moc
Articulate Mandible
>We called it a suicide knob because of the likelihood of catching your sleeve
>on it. Only teen-aged beginning drivers used them. I had one.
Fella who used to work in our family bidniz had one, too. He had a '49
Buick Roadmonster, a wheelchair, leg braces, and a spinal cord that ended
in his upper back. He had a suicide knob on the wheel and a handle
that extended rightwards from the steering column. The twist grip on
the handle controlled the throttle and the handle controlled a rod
that connected to the brake pedal. Bud was as good a driver as any
I ever met.
JoAnne Schmitz
>I was watching the 1946 hard-boiled detective film DARK CORNER
>and there's this scene where someone falls out of a window (forty
>floors to the pavement). A taxi driver says "I didn't know he was
>going to pull a Brody."
>
>So I'm puzzled but I figure from context that "pulling a Brody"
>had to do with jumping from a high place. Well along comes
>a short feature, MGM's "Passing Parade", this one directed by
>that irascible English pipe-smoker, Edward L. Cahn. The script
>debunks several urban legends -- history, actually. Brody supposedly
>jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge. The film says he was at a bar
>drinking a beer at the time.
Brody being Irish, the thought of having a beer might folklorically and
poetically be said to have the power to allow Brody to do a 180 at high
speed.
JoAnne "the power of beer" Schmitz
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experiencing "BYTELOCK!" I coined the word on 17 July 1997. Please use
BYTELOCK,but DO cite the source. I would like to get into the dictionary.
Terence P Higgins <th...@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu> wrote in article
<62o99d$e...@uwm.edu>...
> From article <max_crittenden-...@128.18.80.49>, by
max_cri...@qm.lanka.com (Max Crittenden):
> > Curious. To me (born in 1953, grew up in the San Francisco Bay
> Area) a Brody or Brodie was a sharp 180-degree turn on a bicycle
> or motorcycle, made by putting one foot down and skidding the rear
> tire. Anyone else know this meaning, or any others?
>
>
>
> Fans of the NBC TV series Homocide are likely to think of it as
> shooting off a weapon from your house for no reason...
> --
Barry Traylor
Lunemere <lune...@aol.com> wrote in article
<19971105221...@ladder01.news.aol.com>...
> "The Wombat" <the.w...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> >When the Information Superhighway slows to a crawl or stops, you are
> >experiencing "BYTELOCK!" I coined the word on 17 July 1997. Please use
> >BYTELOCK,but DO cite the source. I would like to get into the dictionary.
>
your
> word. Not only is nothing locked at the byte level, if you look at the
> counterpart word you are using as a model, you will realize that the first
> part of the word refers not to the units that are unable to move, but to the
> network through which they are supposed to move.
>
I hate to tell both of you this, but byte locking has been around for a long
time. Take a look at some old Un*x manuals.
Barry "I know, off-charter" @ Tredyffrin
Lunemere
"Barry Traylor" <b...@trsvr.tr.unisys.com> wrote:
>Lunemere <lune...@aol.com> wrote
>> "The Wombat" <the.w...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>
>> >When the Information Superhighway slows to a crawl or stops, you are
>> >experiencing "BYTELOCK!" I coined the word on 17 July 1997. Please use
>> >BYTELOCK,but DO cite the source. I would like to get into the dictionary.
>>
>> Sorry, but as a coiner you are not in a league that would allow me to use
>your
>> word. Not only is nothing locked at the byte level, if you look at the
>> counterpart word you are using as a model, you will realize that the first
>> part of the word refers not to the units that are unable to move, but to
>the
>> network through which they are supposed to move.
>>
>
>I hate to tell both of you this, but byte locking has been around for a long
>time. Take a look at some old Un*x manuals.
See, I knew it didn't come from a league that would permit me to use it.
Thomas G Corrigan
If I remember correctly, in the '30s "Pulling a Brody" referred to a
suicide by diving from the bridge. I think it was also used in boxing
(same basic reference) to "taking a dive."
Thomas G Corrigan
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