Tits up = pear shaped
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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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
-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.
Kalshane - May 20, 2005 10:19:14 am PDT #3086 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.
That, oddly enough, has given me a form of enlightenment.
Whereas for me I just have to scratch my head. I've understood tits up to mean something bad, but not why. Pear-shaped is even more perplexing.
Frankenbuddha - May 20, 2005 10:21:47 am PDT #3087 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"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.
*preens quietly in cubicle*
Mr. Broom - May 20, 2005 10:23:09 am PDT #3088 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
Pear-shaped explained, sort of. Whereas "tits up" felt fairly straightforward to me, as that's the configuration you'd have were you dead. And had tits, 'course.
-t - May 20, 2005 10:28:20 am PDT #3089 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Surely you can be dead in any configuration.
sumi - May 20, 2005 10:32:42 am PDT #3090 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
But bodies tend to be placed in coffins for viewing -- face up.
Mr. Broom - May 20, 2005 10:35:52 am PDT #3091 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
That's the bunny, yeah.
§ ita § - May 20, 2005 10:52:35 am PDT #3092 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But then nine edge first means the opposite of tits up (as in, face down) as well as the same thing.
Words, freaky.
Betsy HP - May 20, 2005 11:04:29 am PDT #3093 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Good point. Computer cards die face down, people die face up?