Innuendo, or outuendo?
Helen Hurley
double meaning, where the intended meaning is hidden but obvious, even to a
computer freak. "I think he is a shining wit." (I hate the guy, he's always
moaning).
So what about having an "outuendo"? This could be when a normally well known
and accepted phrase or saying has a new meaning in just this case. For
example:
BANKER: "Sorry I'm late dear. I got
held up at work."
PARACHUTIST: "Hello, I just thought
I would drop in to say hi."
TRAFFIC COP: "I would have been
here earlier but the traffic was terrible."
GLAZIER: "Doctor, I have a pane in my leg."
TESCO VEGETABLE COUNTER STAFF:
"Sorry dear, we haven't had a pea in ages."
SEWAGE WORKER:
"Looks like I'm in the shit, now!"
Any more?
John Dean
> Innuendo, or outuendo? I know what "innuendo" means - a remark having
> a double meaning, where the intended meaning is hidden but obvious,
> even to a computer freak. "I think he is a shining wit." (I hate the
> guy, he's always moaning).
>
> So what about having an "outuendo"? This could be when a normally
> well known and accepted phrase or saying has a new meaning in just
> this case. For example:
>
>
>
> Any more?
No thank you
--
John Dean
Oxford
Nate Branscom
Helen Hurley wrote:
> Innuendo, or outuendo? I know what "innuendo" means - a remark having a
> double meaning, where the intended meaning is hidden but obvious, even to a
> computer freak. "I think he is a shining wit." (I hate the guy, he's always
> moaning).
>
> So what about having an "outuendo"? This could be when a normally well known
> and accepted phrase or saying has a new meaning in just this case. For
> example:
<snip>
I've got another clever name for it. How about . . . wait for it . . .
a "pun"?
-- Nate
izzy
Noah's 3 sons: Rub-a-dub-dub.
Dentist: How did you get out of that situation?
Job ... 19:20
It is possible to string these together, like this excerpt from
Groundhog Day Party:
Saul: Are you really a medium?
Female Endorian: I used to be. Now I'm a large. Beware the evil eye.
Cyclops: What is your name?
Odysseus: My name is Gnomon. How's that for Style?
Ariel: WordPlay? That group is just a tempest in a teapot.
Belial: A worthless group if I ever heard of one. Full of nuts.
Satan: Don't reverse my name in vain.
Vampire: Where is that vein?
Azazel: They're as crAzy as 'ell.
Argus: I'd better keep an eye on that group ... if only to see if
anyone is actually playing with words.
Humpty: If you can *see* whether I'm playing with words, you've
sharper eyes than most. -- (apologies to) Carroll
Caesar: If looks were daggers, Argus, you'd really be dangerous.
Cynosura: Why is Argus watching me? Does he think I'm Gladly, the
cross-eyed bear?
Euler: You can't cross all 7 of the Koenigsburg bridges without
crossing at least one of them twice.
Caiaphas: Let me try that. I know how to fix a cross.
Valkyrie: Kyrie eleison. Let me carry you away from this Vale of Tears
... to Elysium.
Izzy: Do they have Shades in Hades?
Satan: You'll find out soon enough. We recycle lemures as lemurs,
douroucoulis, and tarsiers.
Riding Hood: My, what big eyes you have.
Grandma: This has been one long bubbe-maise.
I think my favorite is:
Pegasus: Horsefeathers !
izzy
nemo
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John Dean
Apart from "shining wit" which we class as a spoonerism.
--
John Dean
Oxford
R H Draney
>
>So what about having an "outuendo"? This could be when a normally well known
>and accepted phrase or saying has a new meaning in just this case. For
>example:
>
>BANKER: "Sorry I'm late dear. I got
> held up at work."
>
>PARACHUTIST: "Hello, I just thought
> I would drop in to say hi."
>
>TRAFFIC COP: "I would have been
> here earlier but the traffic was terrible."
>
>GLAZIER: "Doctor, I have a pane in my leg."
>
>TESCO VEGETABLE COUNTER STAFF:
>"Sorry dear, we haven't had a pea in ages."
>
>SEWAGE WORKER:
>"Looks like I'm in the shit, now!"
>
>
>Any more?
Q: "Does your hospital have a clinic for premature ejaculation?"
A: "That's coming soon."
....r
Django Cat
> Innuendo, or outuendo? I know what "innuendo" means - a remark having
> a double meaning, where the intended meaning is hidden but obvious,
> even to a computer freak. "I think he is a shining wit." (I hate the
> guy, he's always moaning).
>
> So what about having an "outuendo"?
>
Only if I can have 'single entendre'. This is a gag where having any
hidden meaning *at* *all* is too subtle - cf Benny Hill.
DC
nemo
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Spot's wring woth Woonerisms?
And was it you or your brother who was killed in the war? (another of his)
Django Cat
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:35:17 -0600, "Django Cat" <nospam@please>
> found these unused words floating about:
>
> > Helen Hurley wrote:
> >
> >> Innuendo, or outuendo? I know what "innuendo" means - a remark
> having >> a double meaning, where the intended meaning is hidden but
> obvious, >> even to a computer freak. "I think he is a shining wit."
> (I hate the >> guy, he's always moaning).
> >>
> >> So what about having an "outuendo"?
> >>
> >
> > Only if I can have 'single entendre'. This is a gag where having
> > any hidden meaning at all is too subtle - cf Benny Hill.
> >
> > DC
>
> That would be fine for keeping up appearances ...
Here's one now:
BUM!!!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahaha!
DC
Steve Hayes
wrote:
Now that deserves a LOL.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
Dean Dark
wrote:
>
>Guess you failed your english classwork --- "double entendre".
As in:
A woman walked into a bar. The bartender said, "What would you like?"
She said, "I'd like a double entendre." So the bartender gave her
one.
--
Dan.
Maria Conlon
> a lack of capability or just snobbery?
Speaking for myself, and not for John: "Outuendo" sounds like "our your
window," and that where most of the follow-up wordplay belongs. IMO.
YMMV. Etc.
--
Maria Conlon
aka Mrs. Blunt
Django Cat
That is a LOL!
nemo
"Steve Hayes" <haye...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:33:34 -0000, "John Dean"
<john...@frag.lineone.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Nate Branscom wrote:
> >> Helen Hurley wrote:
> >>> Innuendo, or outuendo? I know what "innuendo" means - a remark
> >>> having a double meaning, where the intended meaning is hidden but
> >>> obvious, even to a computer freak. "I think he is a shining wit." (I
> >>> hate the guy, he's always moaning).
> >>>
> >>> So what about having an "outuendo"? This could be when a normally
> >>> well known and accepted phrase or saying has a new meaning in just
> >>> this case. For example:
> >>
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >> I've got another clever name for it. How about . . . wait for it . .
> >> . a "pun"?
> >
> >Apart from "shining wit" which we class as a spoonerism.
>
> Now that deserves a LOL.
>
argue about.
Hauke Reddmann
> Innuendo, or outuendo?
Or innu-exo? (Cf. Sartre's "L'Innui".)
--
Hauke Reddmann <:-EX8 fc3...@uni-hamburg.de
His-Ala-Sec-Lys-Glu Arg-Glu-Asp-Asp-Met-Ala-Asn-Asn
Helen Hurley
> YMMV. Etc.
IMO? Never heard that one. Is it:
International Meteor Organization
International Maritime Organisation
International Mathematical Olympiad (Olympiade internationale de
mathématiques)
Irish Medical Organisation
Icelandic Meteorological Office
International Migration Organization
I know that IMHO is "In My Humble Opinion". Have you just dropped an H, just
like the cockneys, only from the middle?
Stewart Gordon
<snip>
> Spot's wring woth Woonerisms?
>
> And was it you or your brother who was killed in the war? (another of his)
I'd no idea that that was Spooner. It sounds more like the kind of
thing that Sam Goldwyn would say.
http://www.rinkworks.com/said/samuelgoldwyn.shtml
Stewart.
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It's an imitation sour-cream substitute....r
Mos
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He meant "In My Opinion". He's just not humble about it.
Maria Conlon
Mos wrote:
> Helen Hurley wrote:
>> Maria Conlon wrote:
>>> window," and that where most of the follow-up wordplay
>>> belongs. IMO. YMMV. Etc.
>>
>> IMO? Never heard that one. Is it:
>> International Meteor Organization
>> International Maritime Organisation
>> International Mathematical Olympiad (Olympiade
>> internationale de mathématiques)
>> Irish Medical Organisation
>> Icelandic Meteorological Office
>> International Migration Organization
>>
>> I know that IMHO is "In My Humble Opinion". Have you just
>> dropped an H, just like the cockneys, only from the
>> middle?
>
> He meant "In My Opinion". He's just not humble about it.
You are correct about IMO meaning "In My Opinion," but you are incorrect
in assuming that an unnamed poster is necessarily a "He."
IANAM.
And why, Helen, did you remove my name? I'm okay with taking blame as
well as praise. (Well, usually.)
Maria Conlon
Mos
news:hP6Bf.14818$Jd....@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net
> [attribution restored]
>
> Mos wrote:
>> Helen Hurley wrote:
>>> Maria Conlon wrote:
>
>>>> window," and that where most of the follow-up wordplay
>>>> belongs. IMO. YMMV. Etc.
>>>
>>> IMO? Never heard that one. Is it:
>>> International Meteor Organization
>>> International Maritime Organisation
>>> International Mathematical Olympiad (Olympiade
>>> internationale de mathématiques)
>>> Irish Medical Organisation
>>> Icelandic Meteorological Office
>>> International Migration Organization
>>>
>>> I know that IMHO is "In My Humble Opinion". Have you
>>> just dropped an H, just like the cockneys, only from the
>>> middle?
>>
>> He meant "In My Opinion". He's just not humble about it.
>
> You are correct about IMO meaning "In My Opinion," but
> you are incorrect in assuming that an unnamed poster is
> necessarily a "He."
I am humbled.
SOACHHIS
nemo
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> nemo wrote:
> <snip>
> > Spot's wring woth Woonerisms?
> >
> > And was it you or your brother who was killed in the war? (another of
his)
>
> I'd no idea that that was Spooner. It sounds more like the kind of
> thing that Sam Goldwyn would say.
>
> http://www.rinkworks.com/said/samuelgoldwyn.shtml
>
> Stewart.
>
expert on Spooner. Praps they both said it.
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Is this part of the litany of the Geek Orthodox Church?
Stewart Gordon
> "Stewart Gordon" <smjg...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> nemo wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Spot's wring woth Woonerisms?
>>>
>>> And was it you or your brother who was killed in the war? (another of
>>> his)
>>
>> I'd no idea that that was Spooner. It sounds more like the kind of
>> thing that Sam Goldwyn would say.
>>
>> http://www.rinkworks.com/said/samuelgoldwyn.shtml
>>
>> Stewart.
>
> Well that's what my old Social Science tutor said, and he was a bit of an
> expert on Spooner. Praps they both said it.
That site attributes it to Spooner too, so I guess he's right. But then
again, you're probably right that the phrase has probably come out of
more than one person's mouth in its time.
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> Is this part of the litany of the Geek Orthodox Church?
I don't *think* the church I go to is either Geek or Orthodox....
Stewart.
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Maria Conlon
> Maria Conlon wrote:
>> Mos wrote:
>>> Helen Hurley wrote:
>>>> Maria Conlon wrote:
>>
>>>>> window," and that where most of the follow-up wordplay
>>>>> belongs. IMO. YMMV. Etc.
>>>>
>>>> IMO? Never heard that one. Is it:
>>>> International Meteor Organization
>>>> International Maritime Organisation
>>>> International Mathematical Olympiad (Olympiade
>>>> internationale de mathématiques)
>>>> Irish Medical Organisation
>>>> Icelandic Meteorological Office
>>>> International Migration Organization
>>>>
>>>> I know that IMHO is "In My Humble Opinion". Have you
>>>> just dropped an H, just like the cockneys, only from the
>>>> middle?
>>>
>>> He meant "In My Opinion". He's just not humble about it.
>>
>> You are correct about IMO meaning "In My Opinion," but
>> you are incorrect in assuming that an unnamed poster is
>
> I am humbled.
> SOACHHIS
Okay, I give. What is SOACHHIS? (I should be humbled, too, on occasion,
maybe.)
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Maria Conlon
nemo
You must be a politician. Instead of answering the question I actually
asked, you have obviously answered the question which you think I *should*
have asked.
Stewart Gordon
>> nemo wrote:
<snip>
>>> Is this part of the litany of the Geek Orthodox Church?
>> I don't *think* the church I go to is either Geek or Orthodox....
> You must be a politician. Instead of answering the question I actually
> asked, you have obviously answered the question which you think I *should*
> have asked.
Ha ha ha ... reminds me of the last joke here:
http://blogs.heraldextra.com/jokesfunny
But anyway ... I don't know much about the Geek Orthodox Church, so I've
no idea what litany they use.
If you're still confused, go to
or, if you prefer
nemo
> nemo wrote:
> > "Stewart Gordon" <smjg...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:dr5j1q$bmf$1...@sun-cc204.lut.ac.uk...
> >> nemo wrote:
> <snip>
> >>> Is this part of the litany of the Geek Orthodox Church?
> >> I don't *think* the church I go to is either Geek or Orthodox....
> <snip>
> > You must be a politician. Instead of answering the question I actually
> > asked, you have obviously answered the question which you think I
*should*
> > have asked.
>
> Ha ha ha ... reminds me of the last joke here:
Margaret Thatcher was a master at that - and if it didn't work, she'd hit
her interlocutor with her handbag!
>
> http://blogs.heraldextra.com/jokesfunny
>
> But anyway ... I don't know much about the Geek Orthodox Church, so I've
> no idea what litany they use.
>
> If you're still confused, go to
>
> http://www.geekcode.com/
>
> or, if you prefer
>
> http://ebb.org/ungeek/
>
> Stewart.
Fan queue!
Helen Hurley
> [attribution re-restored]
>
> You are correct about IMO meaning "In My Opinion," but you are incorrect
> in assuming that an unnamed poster is necessarily a "He."
>
> IANAM.
>
> And why, Helen, did you remove my name? I'm okay with taking blame as
> well as praise. (Well, usually.)
>
> Maria Conlon
Force of habit. I always remove all the stuff that is not relevant to make a
reply a reply, not a repost. I was always taught that it is rude and
impolite to include more text than is necessary.
I appologise, Maria, and pass the blame back to you.
Helen
Helen Hurley
> >
> > And was it you or your brother who was killed in the war? (another of
his)
> I'd no idea that that was Spooner. It sounds more like the kind of
> thing that Sam Goldwyn would say.
>
> http://www.rinkworks.com/said/samuelgoldwyn.shtml
This of course leads into the gripping question: Is a "spoonerism" a real
genuine English word? Or could it be just another slang expression?
It would be nice to think that the late Rev. W. A. Spooner has been
imortalised as an eponym, and something good has at last come out of the
Anglican church. But I somehow think that "spoonerism" belongs in the same
class as "beeb" (BBC), and "blower" (telephone), and "hoover" (vacuum
cleaner).
H
Mos
> Force of habit. I always remove all the stuff that is not
> relevant to make a reply a reply, not a repost. I was
> always taught that it is rude and impolite to include
> more text than is necessary.
Too bad that didn't include crossposting......
Mike Lyle
Nope. It's a good and standard word, without a synonym. The other things
you mention all have formal names as well as the slang ones.
In passing, on the subject Maria mentioned, the way we like to do it in
AUE is to leave in the names of everybody quoted (for the why of it, see
above, and try to identify who said what).
--
Mike.
Cybe R. Wizard
"Mike Lyle" <mike_l...@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> the way we like to do it in
> AUE is to leave in the names of everybody quoted (for the why of it,
> see above, and try to identify who said what).
Does your group 'way' extend to not cross posting? You've been doing
so, you know.
Cybe R. Wizard
--
Unofficial "Wizard of Odds," A.H.P.
Original PORG "Water Wizard," R.P.
"Wize(ned) Wizard," A.P.F-P-Y.
Barely Tolerated Wizard, A.J.L & A.A.L
Mike Lyle
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:58:29 -0000
> "Mike Lyle" <mike_l...@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> the way we like to do it in
>> AUE is to leave in the names of everybody quoted (for the why of it,
>> see above, and try to identify who said what).
>
> Does your group 'way' extend to not cross posting? You've been doing
> so, you know.
Yes, I noticed that, and decided to leave the list alone, both because I
didn't know which one to use to be sure of getting back to Helen, and
because four relevant groups is borderline acceptable. Sorry if it was a
nuisance.
--
Mike.
nemo
"J. A. Mc." <jaS...@gbr.online.com> wrote in message
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> >>>> Spot's wring woth Woonerisms?
> >>>>
same himself!
A sank Tim moany-arse git!
And on a.h.puns, he and his friends have got the damned cheek to ostrichsize
ME!
nemo
It's in the Hixford Dinglish Octionary so it must be a real word - and in
Manny Moor on Onelook.com.
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/spoonerism?view=uk
Malaika
>> Helen Hurley wrote:
>>> Innuendo, or outuendo? I know what "innuendo" means - a remark
>>> having a double meaning, where the intended meaning is hidden but
>>> obvious, even to a computer freak. "I think he is a shining wit." (I
>>> hate the guy, he's always moaning).
>>>
>>> So what about having an "outuendo"? This could be when a normally
>>> well known and accepted phrase or saying has a new meaning in just
>>> this case. For example:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> I've got another clever name for it. How about . . . wait for it . .
>> . a "pun"?
>
> Apart from "shining wit" which we class as a spoonerism.
Speaking of:
I've a Gouse and Harden in the country
An ace I call my plown,
A treat I can replace to
When I beed to knee alone.
Catterfly and butterpillar
Perch on beefy lough
And I listen to the dats and cogs
As they mark and they biaow.
Yes wature here is nunderful
There is no weed for nords,
While silling by my windowflutter
Biny little tirds.