I think it goes back to George Carlin.
I've heard his bit where he talks about them sounding like a snack food, but I don't recall anything where he used it as anything but a noun.
You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one! Q from Bond, not Star Trek.
Buffy ,'Help'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Kalshane - May 20, 2005 8:40:10 am PDT #3066 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Frankenbuddha - May 20, 2005 8:49:42 am PDT #3067 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I've heard his bit where he talks about them sounding like a snack food, but I don't recall anything where he used it as anything but a noun.
Heh. Bet you can't eat just one.
Alicia K - May 20, 2005 8:50:02 am PDT #3068 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
I loathe the upsurge of "hot," if only because it makes me think of that waste of space, Paris Hilton.
But it's still acceptable to describe a hot guy or gal as such.
Kathy A - May 20, 2005 8:50:48 am PDT #3069 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Last month, my junior-high-teaching SIL told me that she was just horrified that the kids at her school are using "gay" to mean lame. I replied that that was common back when I was that age, and, when John Wayne Gacy's serial killings was discovered at Christmas of 8th grade, the phrase went from "Oh, you're so gay" to "Oh, you're such a Gacy." Of course, I don't think that many of us really knew what being gay actually meant--we'd picked up the word in the media but were vague on the details.
Frankenbuddha - May 20, 2005 8:53:25 am PDT #3070 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Last month, my junior-high-teaching SIL told me that she was just horrified that the kids at her school are using "gay" to mean lame. I replied that that was common back when I was that age, and, when John Wayne Gacy's serial killings was discovered at Christmas of 8th grade, the phrase went from "Oh, you're so gay" to "Oh, you're such a Gacy." Of course, I don't think that many of us really knew what being gay actually meant--we'd picked up the word in the media but were vague on the details.
There was a discussion somewhere here recently (natter maybe) about childhood games, and I mentioned we used to play a game called "smear the queer" when we were kids (aka "kill the guy with the ball"). I think use of the phrase "gay" in the above context came up as well.
Kalshane - May 20, 2005 9:03:41 am PDT #3071 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
There was a discussion somewhere here recently (natter maybe) about childhood games, and I mentioned we used to play a game called "smear the queer" when we were kids (aka "kill the guy with the ball"). I think use of the phrase "gay" in the above context came up as well.
We played the same game as a kid and had no idea what "queer" actually meant.
My first introduction into the use of gay=lame was again the internet and on-line video games. I have a couple friends who use it IRL and think I'm being overly sensitive when I object to it.
§ ita § - May 20, 2005 9:21:40 am PDT #3072 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I realise why I can't parse "tits" as positive -- I keep thinking of "tits up."
Frankenbuddha - May 20, 2005 9:28:22 am PDT #3073 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I realise why I can't parse "tits" as positive -- I keep thinking of "tits up."
On the other hand, if you give a movie two tits up, is that a good or a bad?
DavidS - May 20, 2005 9:41:06 am PDT #3074 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
On the other hand, if you give a movie two tits up, is that a good or a bad?
Depends on the tits, no?
Wallace Shawn, I'd say it's a negative.
Salma Hayek, though...
Betsy HP - May 20, 2005 9:43:23 am PDT #3075 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Tits up always meant the same as "nine edge first" to me: dead.