Relax. I'm pretty sure a "pony nap" is like a "dirt nap" -- means you fell off your horse. Completely wholesome.
Remember that sex we were planning to have, ever again?
Zoe ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Betsy HP - Sep 30, 2005 6:11:37 am PDT #4470 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Dana - Sep 30, 2005 6:12:50 am PDT #4471 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I thought a dirt nap meant you were dead. No? Huh.
Betsy HP - Sep 30, 2005 6:15:01 am PDT #4472 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
A dirt nap means you fell off Yosemite or something equivalently tall. I think. But a pony nap wouldn't be nearly as fatal. Unless you're riding Binky.
amych - Sep 30, 2005 6:15:37 am PDT #4473 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Dirt nap = dead, every time I've heard it.
Betsy HP - Sep 30, 2005 6:16:40 am PDT #4474 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I thought it was explicitly a climbing term. Suela?
Nutty - Sep 30, 2005 6:17:31 am PDT #4475 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
How you arrived at the dirt matters not. A dirt nap is a dirt nap, whether it was via failed-parachute or hot lead in the belly or arsenic.
Chandler would have it that a dirt nap is a little more dignified than being rolled into the sea with a cinder block tied to your ankle, but only just.
shrift - Sep 30, 2005 6:25:32 am PDT #4476 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Completely wholesome.
I resent the implication that I'm wholesome!
Frankenbuddha - Sep 30, 2005 6:29:51 am PDT #4477 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I thought it was explicitly a climbing term.
I've always heard it in the context of hard-boiled, Chandler-esque use, a la The Big Sleep.
Betsy HP - Sep 30, 2005 6:36:55 am PDT #4478 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Huh. Learn something new every day.
"Luca Brazzi sleeps with the ponies."
Nicklas - Sep 30, 2005 6:40:13 am PDT #4479 of 10001
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
Why can't Luca Brazzi sleep in his own room like the rest of us?