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.
You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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.
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.
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.
brenda m - Jun 20, 2005 5:41:28 pm PDT #3266 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 good LORD. I take it all back!!! No one click that link!!
Denial: It's Not Just For the Holocaust Anymore.
Glamcookie - Jun 20, 2005 5:43:32 pm PDT #3267 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Java cat is the sweetest! Hugs and thanks to you, friend :)