a girl with an ass that won't quit?
car...@gmail.com
father is?
Phoebe: I may play the fool at times, but I'm a little more than a
pretty blond with an ass that won't quit.
---------------------------------------
I was watching Friends on TV and could not get the meaning of "with an
ass that won't quit".
Was she referring to one of her annoying friend who won't stop being an
ass? guess not.
Since English is not my first language, this kind of expressions are so
hard to understand and sometimes, frustrating.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Tony Cooper
There is no literal "translation" of the phrase. Phoebe is just
saying that "I may be pretty, but I'm not stupid".
Even though she's referring to her ass, and saying that it is shapely,
the reference is to her overall appearance.
When we tack on "...that won't quit", it's an allusion to not being
able to measure just how good something is.
There is no allusion in the above to an ass where "ass" is used to
mean an unpleasant or rude person.
--
Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL
car...@gmail.com
Your tracking really helped me to find out the literal meaning, which
was't that important but it was what I was looking for.
Will
Tony Cooper wrote:
> On 3 Mar 2006 05:40:48 -0800, car...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >Rachel: What? Hey wait a minute! Phoebe, how do you even know who the
> >father is?
> >Phoebe: I may play the fool at times, but I'm a little more than a
> >pretty blond with an ass that won't quit.
> >---------------------------------------
> >
> >I was watching Friends on TV and could not get the meaning of "with an
> >ass that won't quit".
> >
> >Was she referring to one of her annoying friend who won't stop being an
> >ass? guess not.
> >
> >Since English is not my first language, this kind of expressions are so
> >hard to understand and sometimes, frustrating.
> >
> >Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
>
> There is no literal "translation" of the phrase. Phoebe is just
> saying that "I may be pretty, but I'm not stupid".
>
> Even though she's referring to her ass, and saying that it is shapely,
> the reference is to her overall appearance.
>
> When we tack on "...that won't quit", it's an allusion to not being
> able to measure just how good something is.
What I don't understand is what it is, exactly, that her ass won't quit
doing?
Will.
Tony Cooper
If she has an ass that won't quit, there's a probability that you will
continue watching it until you figure out what it won't quit doing.
Will
> >What I don't understand is what it is, exactly, that her ass won't quit
> >doing?
>
> If she has an ass that won't quit, there's a probability that you will
> continue watching it until you figure out what it won't quit doing.
Not me, squire. I'm one of that lucky band who found that they were
entirely immune to the appeal of "Friends". I've also managed to avoid
"Frasier", "Seinfeld", "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Arrested
Development", though I am a devoted admirer of "House" and "West Wing"
(at least until C4 took it off terrestrial). I was keen on "Desperate
Housewives" for the first series, but the second is one big yawn.
"Lost" was fun, and I'll probably give series two a go.
There, that's my current diet of American TV.
Will.
Donna Richoux
> Tony Cooper wrote:
> > When we tack on "...that won't quit", it's an allusion to not being
> > able to measure just how good something is.
>
> What I don't understand is what it is, exactly, that her ass won't quit
> doing?
It's not literal, and it's not restricted to asses. I've been trying to
remember what the more common version is, and it just hit me: "legs" --
"She had legs that wouldn't quit." That makes literal sense, at least:
being long-legged.
I think it must have been some fairly recent silliness that transferred
other objects into the place of "legs." But there may be more to the
story.
--
Best -- Donna Richoux
Father Ignatius
> Not me, squire. I'm one of that lucky band who found that they were
> entirely immune to the appeal of "Friends". I've also managed to
> avoid "Frasier", "Seinfeld", "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Arrested
> Development", though I am a devoted admirer of "House" and "West Wing"
> (at least until C4 took it off terrestrial). I was keen on "Desperate
> Housewives" for the first series, but the second is one big yawn.
> "Lost" was fun, and I'll probably give series two a go.
<indignantly> Woss wrong with /Frasier/, then?
Tony Cooper
wrote:
The other expression about legs is equally vague: She has legs up to
here.
Blue Hornet
In my youth (our youth?) when miniskirts were the rage, I always liked
"Hemline up to here, neckline down to there."
Evan Kirshenbaum
> There is no literal "translation" of the phrase. Phoebe is just
> saying that "I may be pretty, but I'm not stupid".
>
> Even though she's referring to her ass, and saying that it is shapely,
> the reference is to her overall appearance.
>
> When we tack on "...that won't quit", it's an allusion to not being
> able to measure just how good something is.
Are you sure about that? I've always taken what I took to be the
original, "legs that just won't quit" as being specifically
exceptionally long (and shapely) legs. That is, as your gaze travels
up them, they seem to go on and on. With application to another part
of the body as just a transferred sense.
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Tony Cooper
<kirsh...@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
>Tony Cooper <tony_co...@earthlink.net> writes:
>
>> There is no literal "translation" of the phrase. Phoebe is just
>> saying that "I may be pretty, but I'm not stupid".
>>
>> Even though she's referring to her ass, and saying that it is shapely,
>> the reference is to her overall appearance.
>>
>> When we tack on "...that won't quit", it's an allusion to not being
>> able to measure just how good something is.
>
>Are you sure about that? I've always taken what I took to be the
>original, "legs that just won't quit" as being specifically
>exceptionally long (and shapely) legs. That is, as your gaze travels
>up them, they seem to go on and on. With application to another part
>of the body as just a transferred sense.
I don't see how your definition and my definition differ. The "won't
quit" part refers to how good they look or how shapely they are.
One wouldn't refer to the tree-trunk-like legs of a female Ukrainian
shot-putter as "legs that just won't quit" no matter how long they
were.
Evan Kirshenbaum
> On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 11:08:06 -0800, Evan Kirshenbaum
> <kirsh...@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
>
>>Tony Cooper <tony_co...@earthlink.net> writes:
>>
>>> When we tack on "...that won't quit", it's an allusion to not
>>> being able to measure just how good something is.
>>
>>Are you sure about that? I've always taken what I took to be the
>>original, "legs that just won't quit" as being specifically
>>exceptionally long (and shapely) legs. That is, as your gaze
>>travels up them, they seem to go on and on. With application to
>>another part of the body as just a transferred sense.
>
> I don't see how your definition and my definition differ. The
> "won't quit" part refers to how good they look or how shapely they
> are.
The definitions differ in that my "won't quit" refers to an actual
physical extent: they are long. Given that they are not otherwise
unattractive, they are especially attractive because of their length.
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Skitt
> Tony Cooper writes:
>> Evan Kirshenbaum wrote:
>>>> When we tack on "...that won't quit", it's an allusion to not
>>>> being able to measure just how good something is.
>>>
>>> Are you sure about that? I've always taken what I took to be the
>>> original, "legs that just won't quit" as being specifically
>>> exceptionally long (and shapely) legs. That is, as your gaze
>>> travels up them, they seem to go on and on. With application to
>>> another part of the body as just a transferred sense.
>>
>> I don't see how your definition and my definition differ. The
>> "won't quit" part refers to how good they look or how shapely they
>> are.
>
> The definitions differ in that my "won't quit" refers to an actual
> physical extent: they are long. Given that they are not otherwise
> unattractive, they are especially attractive because of their length.
Yeah, did you see Stacy Keibler's?
--
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http://www.geocities.com/opus731/
Stephen Calder
>
>
> What I don't understand is what it is, exactly, that her ass won't quit
> doing?
>
Since she is being questioned about knowing who the father is, I guess
her ass won't quit twitching in an attractive way.
--
Stephen
Lennox Head, Australia
Stephen Calder
She's saying she long-assed? Doesn't make sense to me, unless long has
somehow transmuted into cute with the new context.
Robin Bignall
Rachel thinks that her pregnant friend Pheobe is so promiscuous that
she doesn't have a clue about who the father could be. Pheobe replies
that she's not just a dumb blonde who is sexually very active (an ass
that won't quit) and implies that yes, she does know.
--
Robin Bignall
Hoddesdon, England
Donna Richoux
The construction (which I think is rather new and is not all that
common) basically means "great, magnificent." In the case of legs, it
was their length that made them great or magnificent. Then as other
items got substituted into the phrase, they were great or magnificent
for whatever other reasons, on their own.
I just looked through Google hits for "that won't quit" and found a few
that appear to be this usage, not the standard "keeps continuing" one,
although some are arguable:
Chris Cornell has a voice that won't quit...well I
hope it won't. HAHHA :)
"Fireball personality with a voice that won't quit"
...Boston Mirror.
in my garage I've got a ski rack that won't quit.
It's made from bunch of 2x4 struts sticking out from
the wall, upon which I lay my cherished quiver -- my
valued dozens of boards, collected over years
And you've obviously got tits that won't quit.
... if I really do arrive on the screen , it won't be
because I've got a great set of teeth or a nose that
won't quit.
Gwen, an adorable blonde 19-year-old with a body
that won't quit,
This is hard-hitting stuff, crisp as newly minted
money and with a groove that won't quit.
Kristina Johnson, Duke University's new engineering
dean, has a resume that won't quit -- but she's not
about to rest on past accomplishments.
Champion Women's Mesh Thong blend provides cool,
light comfort, and a fit that won't quit.
Can anyone turn up uses in Buffy or similar? We've had the "Friends"
one, which gets quoted a lot.
Donna Richoux
Nice guess, but it's really not that salacious. Phoebe is sort of
off-beat and vain and she's just the kind of person to pay herself a
compliment.
R H Draney
>
>I just looked through Google hits for "that won't quit" and found a few
>that appear to be this usage, not the standard "keeps continuing" one,
>although some are arguable:
>
>one, which gets quoted a lot.
Suggest expanding the search to include the phrase "that just won't quit"....
There's also "that [just] won't stop"...sadly, the first one this version brings
to mind can be interpreted as "keeps continuing":
Hong Kong Phooey
Number One Super Guy
Hong Kong Phooey
Quicker than the human eye
He's got style a groovy style
And a car that just won't stop
When the going gets rough he's super tough
With a Hong Kong Phooey Chop
Ya!
....r
Robert Bannister
Um... she's got the runs?
--
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Stephen Calder
That's the way I read it.
Tony Cooper
wrote:
I would never interpret "an ass that won't quit" as a remark about
sexual activity. It is a remark that can only be construed to mean
attractiveness. That may lead to sexual activity, but so can
anything.
"Piece of ass" is a remark about sexual activity, though.
Stephen Calder
Okay, well I learned something.
Richard Maurer
Yeah, did you see Stacy Keibler's?
Have we already had the discussion about how to
measure legs and whether it is possible for a 5'11"
woman to have a 41" inseam?
-- ---------------------------------------------
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Sunnyvale, California of a homonym of a synonym for also.
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CDB
Robin Bignall wrote:
> On 3 Mar 2006 05:40:48 -0800, car...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Rachel: What? Hey wait a minute! Phoebe, how do you even know who
>> the father is?
>> Phoebe: I may play the fool at times, but I'm a little more than a
>> pretty blond with an ass that won't quit.
>> ---------------------------------------
[...]
> Rachel thinks that her pregnant friend Pheobe is so promiscuous
> that she doesn't have a clue about who the father could be. Pheobe
> replies that she's not just a dumb blonde who is sexually very
> active (an ass that won't quit) and implies that yes, she does know.
Good point. I vote for the double-entendre.
Peter Duncanson
wrote:
>Robin Bignall wrote:
I too understood it that way. I wonder how many viewers outside the US
would understand it the same way? It seems to me that it (promiscuity)
is the most likely interpretation by those unfamiliar with the "that
won't quit" idiom.
--
Peter Duncanson
UK (posting from a.u.e)
Paul Wolff
<ma...@peterduncanson.net> writes
It made sense to me as "I'm a little more than a pretty
blond-with-an-ass that won't quit." Aside from that, the speaker had to
take care not to swallow the first "a" in her sentence.
--
Paul
UK
Wood Avens
<boun...@two.wolff.co.uk> wrote:
>It made sense to me as "I'm a little more than a pretty
>blond-with-an-ass that won't quit."
I'm glad you said that -- that was my reading, too, until all those
responses persuaded me otherwise.
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Jonathan Morton
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> On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 14:34:00 +0000, Paul Wolff
> <boun...@two.wolff.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>It made sense to me as "I'm a little more than a pretty
>>blond-with-an-ass that won't quit."
>
> I'm glad you said that -- that was my reading, too, until all those
> responses persuaded me otherwise.
Make that "blonde". I'm sure Phoebe isn't a transvestite.
Regards
Jonathan
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I think non-native speakers can get "the human trampoline" idiom more
easily.
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>
> Can anyone turn up uses in Buffy or similar? We've had the "Friends"
> one, which gets quoted a lot.
Unlikely in Buffy. The phrase is not listed on
http://www.buffyworld.com/slanguage/index.htm .
And although http://www.buffyworld.com has transcripts of all episodes of
Buffy, and I think the word "buffyworld" appears on each transcript, a
google search for "buffyworld" + "that won't quit" turns up zero hits.
--
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Iskandar Baharuddin
Outrageous! Tacking on the "e" makes it gender-specific!
The very thing we have vowed to eradicate from English.
Next thing we know you'll be rattling on about "poetesses" or worse.
Sara Lorimer
> Skitt wrote about "legs that just won't quit":
> Yeah, did you see Stacy Keibler's?
>
>
> Have we already had the discussion about how to
> measure legs and whether it is possible for a 5'11"
> woman to have a 41" inseam?
(Gets tape measure, checks inseam)
I don't know who Stacy Keibler is, but I can tell you that a 5'11" woman
with a 41" inseam would be mighty funny-looking.
--
SML
Skitt
Sara Lorimer
>
> > I don't know who Stacy Keibler is, but I can tell you that a 5'11"
> > woman with a 41" inseam would be mighty funny-looking.
>
> See:
> http://us.tv1.yimg.com/tv.yahoo.com/images/he/photo/tv_pix/abc/dancing_wit
> h_the_stars/stacy_keibler/dancing_damico2.jpg or http://tinyurl.com/o29tg
Perhaps she's including her foot when she measures her inseam.
--
SML
Skitt
> Skitt wrote:
Well, the 41" inseam is an exaggeration. Her site claims 42" long legs. I
would guess that to be to the hip, or something. In high heels, she's
something to behold.
http://www.stacykeibleronline.net/stacy-keibler-biography.html
Sara Lorimer
> Well, the 41" inseam is an exaggeration. Her site claims 42" long legs. I
> would guess that to be to the hip, or something.
Ah, okay. I'm an inch shorter, and (very) roughly 42" to my (currently
non-existant) waist.
> In high heels, she's
> something to behold.
>
> http://www.stacykeibleronline.net/stacy-keibler-biography.html
Hmmm. Not really my type, but I see what you mean.
--
SML
Reinhold (Rey) Aman
[...]
> I don't know who Stacy Keibler is
1st: Google
2nd: Images
3rd: "Stacy Keibler"
4th: Viola!
~~~ Rey ~~~
No legman
Robert Lieblich
>
> Sara "Fluffy Muffy" Lorimer wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I don't know who Stacy Keibler is
>
> 1st: Google
> 2nd: Images
> 3rd: "Stacy Keibler"
> 4th: Viola!
Fishing for some viola jokes, Rey, or just Skitting.
--
"Dick"
Father Ignatius
> X-No-Archive: yes
> In message <QrednUq23Im...@comcast.com>, Skitt
> <ski...@comcast.net> writes
>> Sara Lorimer wrote:
>>> Skitt wrote:
>>
>>>>> I don't know who Stacy Keibler is, but I can tell you that a 5'11"
>>>>> woman with a 41" inseam would be mighty funny-looking.
>>>>
>>>> See:
>>>> http://us.tv1.yimg.com/tv.yahoo.com/images/he/photo/tv_pix/abc/dancing_wit
>>>> h_the_stars/stacy_keibler/dancing_damico2.jpg or
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/o29tg
>>>
>>> Perhaps she's including her foot when she measures her inseam.
>>
>> Well, the 41" inseam is an exaggeration. Her site claims 42" long
>> legs. I would guess that to be to the hip, or something. In high
>> heels, she's something to behold.
>
> scene, in which an actress, whose name I forget, wrapped her legs
> around an actor, whose name I forget, and declared that he had
> 88-inches of something or other -- it may have been 'therapy' --
> wrapped around him. The actress's legs were quite unforgettable
> because, thankfully, the crux of the matter wasn't shown.
/Pretty Woman/ with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.
"An emotionally appealing film that taps into our primal feelings about
money, power, pleasure, shame, intimacy, and love as a redemptive power."
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pretty_woman/
ObCrossThread: Cindafuckin'rella http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100405/quotes
Vivian: [sitting with Edward leaning against her in the bathtub] Did I
mention, my leg is 44" from hip to toe. So basically we are talking about
88" of therapy, wrapped around you for the bargain price of $3000 dollars.
Bob Cunningham
subject line brings to mind once again the lady with an ass
so big she needs an extra pair of legs to hold it up. See
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/art/m/a/maia/ice_goddess.jpg.html
Peter Moylan
> I would never interpret "an ass that won't quit" as a remark about
> sexual activity. It is a remark that can only be construed to mean
> attractiveness. That may lead to sexual activity, but so can
> anything.
Apparently that sense of "won't quit" never made it to my part of the
world. The expression I used to hear when miniskirts first appeared was
"she had legs all the way up to her crotch", which was roughly
synonymous with "a hemline that came up to see level".
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Peter Duncanson
<pe...@DIESPAMMERSozebelg.org> wrote:
>Tony Cooper wrote:
>
>> I would never interpret "an ass that won't quit" as a remark about
>> sexual activity. It is a remark that can only be construed to mean
>> attractiveness. That may lead to sexual activity, but so can
>> anything.
>
>Apparently that sense of "won't quit" never made it to my part of the
>world. The expression I used to hear when miniskirts first appeared was
>"she had legs all the way up to her crotch", which was roughly
>synonymous with "a hemline that came up to see level".
An acquaintance of mine in the 1960s used to call one of her skirts an
"aeroplane skirt". Her explanation was that the hemline was at cockpit
level.
Some people who were told this laughed uproariously, looked utterly
disgusted, or, with strange facial contortions, managed both at the same
time.
Percival P. Cassidy
>> I don't know who Stacy Keibler is
>
> 1st: Google
> 2nd: Images
> 3rd: "Stacy Keibler"
> 4th: Viola!
^^
I like the sound of those things: not as shrill as a violin and easier
to cart around than a cello.
Perce. P. Cassidy
Mike Lyle
String quartet:
A good violinist,
A bad violinist,
A failed violinist, and
Someone who hates the guts of all violinists.
--
Mike.
Marc
But can you imagine how desperate the poor girl would be if her ass did
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> I hate to ridicule a good cliche.
> But can you imagine how desperate the poor girl would be if her ass
> did quit?
But it might at least take a rest for a while if she stops eating that
curry.
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