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.
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Nutty - May 20, 2005 9:45:04 am PDT #3076 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Sean K - May 20, 2005 9:52:19 am PDT #3077 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
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"?
Polter-Cow - May 20, 2005 10:00:09 am PDT #3078 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Nine edge first? I've never of that at all.
Betsy HP - May 20, 2005 10:07:35 am PDT #3079 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Old fogey computer industry in-joke. It's the correct orientation for a Hollerith punchcard, the kind your bills used to come with.
Kathy A - May 20, 2005 10:08:47 am PDT #3080 of 10002
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Mr. Broom - May 20, 2005 10:10:41 am PDT #3081 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
It's from the days of punch-card computer programming:
"Each card had 12 rows (numbered 12, 11, then 0 through 9) and 80 columns. By punching holes in a column using a mechanical hand punch, you caused that column to have a meaning...Having punched your program onto a stack of several hundred cards, you took them to the computer room and delivered them to an operator, praying that he would not drop them (a computer program only works if its instructions are executed in the right order). The operator, in his own good time, would feed them into the card reader—"face down, 9 edge first", according to the instructions on the reader."
Atropa - May 20, 2005 10:13:55 am PDT #3082 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
"Are you high, man? That Yoda scene wasn't tits; it was completely pants."
For some reason, I love this sentence madly.
Yes. I'm going to be muttering it under my breath all day.
-t - May 20, 2005 10:14:13 am PDT #3083 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I always thought "tits up" meant something akin to "kerplooey". As in "...and then the alarm went off and everything went tits up"
Jessica - May 20, 2005 10:15:13 am PDT #3084 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Tits up = pear shaped
-t - May 20, 2005 10:17:59 am PDT #3085 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Tits up = pear shaped
That, oddly enough, has given me a form of enlightenment.