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.
I realise why I can't parse "tits" as positive -- I keep thinking of "tits up."
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?
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...
Tits up always meant the same as "nine edge first" to me: dead.
I canna hear the phrase "tits up" except in Mike Myers' foghorn Scots accent. Sort of puts the kibosh on trying seriously to use it as slang.
Tits up always meant the same as "nine edge first" to me: dead.
Okay, that's what I understood "tits up" to mean, but what the heck is the etymology of "nine edge first"? I don't get that one, what does it mean besides "dead"?
Nine edge first? I've never of that at all.
Old fogey computer industry in-joke. It's the correct orientation for a Hollerith punchcard, the kind your bills used to come with.
