No Irish Need Apply
Hey, don't worry about it. Nest full of vampires, you come get me, okay. Box full of puppies, that's more of a judgement call.
Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - Jun 20, 2005 5:22:18 pm PDT #3256 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Jesse - Jun 20, 2005 5:23:53 pm PDT #3257 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Like brenda said, but check this out. Huh.
I have to go to bed now, due to having to get up for work in the morning. AGAIN.
Scrappy - Jun 20, 2005 5:25:01 pm PDT #3258 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
My mom told me when she was kid they called the chicken butt the "Pope's nose" which she didn't connect as an anti-Catholic slur until she was a young teenager. She was mortified about using the phrase, even though she stopped when she figured out what it meant.
brenda m - Jun 20, 2005 5:26:39 pm PDT #3259 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh yeah, my mom called it that too. I don't think I figured it out until just now.
brenda m - Jun 20, 2005 5:30:52 pm PDT #3260 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
but check this out. Huh.
Um, yeah, note the banner ad at the top of that page.
I think I'm going to go shower.
Emily - Jun 20, 2005 5:34:32 pm PDT #3261 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Also, the various "Dutch" phrases, like Dutch treat and going Dutch, are based on a stereotype of the Dutch along the same lines as "Indian summer".
It's funny; I do know, thinking about it, that "packie" and the slur sound just the same, but with the first I can hear the Boston accent in it so that it becomes a totally different-sounding word.
Sort of like the time I complained about a friend repeatedly calling another friend Eileen when her name is actually Aileen.
(Comma splice!)
Jessica - Jun 20, 2005 5:35:12 pm PDT #3262 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have never heard "Jew you down" or "mighty white of you" outside of this board.
Emily - Jun 20, 2005 5:36:52 pm PDT #3263 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I've only heard the first very rarely, and the second never. Phrases like these are quite often very regionally specific.
Jesse - Jun 20, 2005 5:38:17 pm PDT #3264 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Um, yeah, note the banner ad at the top of that page.
Oh good LORD. I take it all back!!! No one click that link!!
Lilty Cash - Jun 20, 2005 5:40:04 pm PDT #3265 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Whew.
In college, we always called the liquor store the "packie" short for package store, and I got scared for a second that I was saying something I didn't know I was saying.