Oh yeah, my mom called it that too. I don't think I figured it out until just now.
I didn't create the troll. I didn't date the troll. In fact I hate the troll. I helped deflate the troll-- All done.
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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 5:26:39 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
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 :)
Trudy Booth - Jun 20, 2005 5:46:45 pm PDT #3268 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
The only place I ever heard "Pope's Nose" was on the Super Catholic side of the family, I doubt they considered it offensive.
I always figured it meant that the thing looked like an old man's nose and the Pope was the old man of choice (particularly since that bit of bird was beloved).
How is "Indian Summer" offensive?