geboni? jabone? ge-bone-ee?

[Oleg Lego]

I was watching "Lost" a few evenings ago, and one of the characters
(Sawyer) was referring to a couple who had apparently died. He used a
phrase I haven't heard for probably 45 years. he said "Those two
gebonis..."

We used to use it a fair amount, though we never did have a specific
meaning for it.

I have no idea how to spell the word, so my several minutes of
searching OneLook yielded no candidates. The pronunciation is
something like:

ju-bone-ee, there the 'u' is pretty much a schwa.

Anyone?

[rzed]

Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat..com> wrote in
news:jdb113d51tf2kv6ou...@4ax.com:

According to a post on this page:
<http://www.insanetrain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13658&page=
10>,
"giaboni is a word we used as kids in the hood
it means, more or less, a jackass"

... how does that fit?

--
rzed
Whose hood had other words for it

[Robert Bannister]

rzed wrote:

Um, might it not have been a peculiar pronunciation of "Japanese"?

--
Rob Bannister

[nanc...@verizon.net]

On Apr 2, 7:44 pm, Robert Bannister <rob...@it.net.au> wrote:

> > According to a post on this page:

> > <http://www.insanetrain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13658&page=10>,

> > "giaboni is a word we used as kids in the hood
> > it means, more or less, a jackass"
>
> > ... how does that fit?
>
> Um, might it not have been a peculiar pronunciation of "Japanese"?

Nope. Not likely at all. The characters who died weren't remotely
Japanese, and the word was definitely one I've heard used as an insult
before, although if I had to spell it, I think I'd try "jaboni". And
the "jackass" definition fits my recollection of how we used the word
as kids.

[Grrr]

Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat..com> wrote:

> Anyone?

Google 'jabroni', WWE.

[Oleg Lego]

On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:36:15 +0000, rzed posted:

Fits pretty well. We didn't use it in a way that would have suggested
a particular insulting term. It was more like a word we would use to
label someone as 'slightly strange', or perhaps 'a bit foolish'.

[Oleg Lego]

On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:44:43 +0800, Robert Bannister posted:

No. Neither in Sawyer's use of it nor our use of it as kids.

[Oleg Lego]

On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:58:15 -0000, Grrr posted:

>Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat..com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone?
>
>Google 'jabroni', WWE.

I'd hazard a guess that 'jabroni' is the origin of the word we used.

[Grrr]

I first heard the word from my brother, he said "What a jabroni!" where I would've said "What a maroon!".
From what I Google, a 'jabroni' is a wrestling jobber, a professional loser.
One level up is the 'jabroni to the stars', the guy who loses to the marquee.

A 'heel' is a bad guy, and 'kayfabe' is ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe

Interesting chaps, those men in tights. I also learned that Rowdy Roddy Piper has cancer. :(

[333la...@gmail.com]

I read somebody else assume Sawyer mispronounced "jabroni" but that doesn't make any sense because Miles also called them "jabonies" (episode 8 of season 6). I have no idea if it is spelled correctly but the captions spell it as "jabonies"

[RH Draney]

On 11/15/2015 11:38 PM, 333la...@gmail.com wrote:
> I read somebody else assume Sawyer mispronounced "jabroni" but that doesn't make any sense because Miles also called them "jabonies" (episode 8 of season 6). I have no idea if it is spelled correctly but the captions spell it as "jabonies"

Eight years and seven months, gmail.com address...heads up to whoever's
keeping score....r

[Peter T. Daniels]

If the revivalist is viewing the DVD, it's probably discussed in the
Commentary or the Pop-ups (I know there are pop-ups because sometimes
they appeared in reruns).

[It has something to do with the then-cult series *Lost*.)

[Peter Moylan]

In case anyone is keeping score, there are more common factors:
1. Posting via Google Groups.
2. Gmail address.
3. No quoting of what he's following up on, so no
indication of what he's talking about.
4. The OP never contributes to the thread apart from the initial
article, so is probably unaware that this is a newsgroup or that
there have been replies.
5. (Something I've now noticed:) an IP address that's not
consistent with gmail.

As mentioned earlier, point 3 is strange because Google Groups normally
does quote the context by default.

I'm sticking to my hypothesis that GG supports a dumbed-down interface
for use by dumbed-down computers, aka smartphones. I conjecture that all
of these strange postings are coming from people with an Android phone,
although for now I don't know how to check that.

For a while I was tempted to try a test posting from my wife's phone,
but I'm not certain that she has a Google account. When she bought it I
configured it with her own e-mail address, and skipped the invitation to
set up a gmail account.

--
Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW, Australia

[Stan Brown]

Wouldn't it make sense for us just to ignore these, unless they're
interesting for their content and not just for their tardiness?



--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://BrownMath.com/
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"The difference between the /almost right/ word and the
/right/ word is ... the difference between the lightning-bug
and the lightning." --Mark Twain

[Charles Bishop]

In article <n2cf8...@news3.newsguy.com>,

What do you see that give you this information? All I can see is that
they posted their question(?) on the 15 Nov, '15.

Charles

[Peter T. Daniels]

If you had a decent provider, it would show you the entire thread.

[snide...@gmail.com]

Here, "decent" means ... has archives going back 20 or more years.

/dps

[RH Draney]

And the information on where they posted from can be found in headers,
or with "View Source"....r

[Peter T. Daniels]

Yup. Viz., Google Groups.

[snide...@gmail.com]

A particular usage of "decent".

And some people have personal archives going back 20 or more years.
I'm not sure Nick Spalding's collection was preserved longer than he was, though.

/dps

/dps

[Robin Bignall]

Have we lost Nick, too?
--
Robin Bignall
Herts, England (BrE)

[snide...@gmail.com]

There have been no sea stories for almost 2 years.

/dps

[bill van]

In article <c3av4b917ukdqjadj...@4ax.com>,

In February of 2014. I wasn't posting here at the time, but he was
mourned in alt.fan-cecil-adams, where he was also a regular.
--
bill

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

Yes.

It was reported here by Jerry Friedman. If I recall correctly, Jerry had
met Nick and his family during a visit to Ireland.

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.usage.english/2014-02/msg01806.html

<quote>

From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 09:58:35 -0700

Nick Spalding's daughter Sophie has given me the sad news of his death
on Feb. 7 and asked me post it here and to other newsgroups. I'll miss
his contributions, but I have good memories of meeting him in Howth. In
view of his concern for accurate information, I'll pass on the reliable
source that Sophie gave me:

http://www.rip.ie/showdn.php?dn=216955/NickSPALDING/Sutton/Dublin

--
Jerry Friedman
<endquote>

The Notice in the Irish Times:
http://notices.irishtimes.com/death/spalding-nick/37255363


--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)

[Robin Bignall]

Thanks. He died while I was in hospital last year, so I missed the
notice. Another sad loss.

[vladmar...@gmail.com]

The term "Geboni" was used in the 1936 film, "Tarzan Escapes." it was used to identify a tribe that attacked a safari that was trying to find Tarzan.

[Whiskers]

On 2016-05-17, vladmar...@gmail.com <vladmar...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> The term "Geboni" was used in the 1936 film, "Tarzan Escapes." it was
> used to identify a tribe that attacked a safari that was trying to
> find Tarzan.

A second round of necroposting in this thread from 2007.

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[CDB]

The movie's trailer at YouTube doesn't have anyone saying their name,
but it calls them "Gabonis" in a print overlay. That strongly suggests
the English pronunciation "guh-BOH-nee" [g@'boni] for the name of the
tribe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lyvteyGqRk

I started to wonder about the similarity of their name to "Gabon" but,
considering that the movie had been made in the 'thirties for children
and innocents, I stopped again.

[vladmar...@gmail.com]

The term Geboni was used in the 1936 film "Tarzan Escapes." It referred to a tribe that was threatening some hunters.