Because I've already volunteered all that information!
I must have repressed it.
Kaylee: So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going? Book: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.
'Serenity'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
tommyrot - May 25, 2012 7:18:48 am PDT #6664 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
§ ita § - May 25, 2012 7:19:05 am PDT #6665 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought it was something most people knew.
So did I. I had figured it for common historical knowledge, and then someone on gawker *pedantically* explained it, and I realised it wasn't pedantic at all, from the number of people going "Huh? Spade? Huh?"
It's the second google hit--I figured that reflected knowledge in adults, but nope.
However, my understanding of its usage was Prohibition era. I feel like I've seen it in films of that period.
JZ - May 25, 2012 7:19:12 am PDT #6666 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I knew it had the other meaning (I know I've heard it in that song from Hair, but I think I may have known it before then, probably from some long-ago Social Problem novel in my grandparents' basement), but the only way I've ever heard any actual people use it out loud was in the gardening-implement sense.
§ ita § - May 25, 2012 7:20:02 am PDT #6667 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
-I also had two friends, both male, who had sex with their brothers
Way to go, making me feel like a stick in the mud for not grokking Wincest.
Liese S. - May 25, 2012 7:21:09 am PDT #6668 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I knew spade was used in racist ways.
Amy - May 25, 2012 7:22:40 am PDT #6669 of 30001
Because books.
I knew the spade thing. I did not know, when I was a kid, the origin of the name of the Sambo's in Boca Raton (in late '70s, if you can believe it).
Way to go, making me feel like a stick in the mud for not grokking Wincest.
You're so rarely behind the curve.
DavidS - May 25, 2012 7:24:14 am PDT #6670 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I knew spade was used in racist ways.
Yeah, I thought it was common knowledge.
§ ita § - May 25, 2012 7:24:49 am PDT #6671 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You're so rarely behind the curve.
I will get a snake and a boyfriend to make up for this, but I will not have sex with my sister.
Theodosia - May 25, 2012 7:26:21 am PDT #6672 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
It turns out that Muppet prefers "Feline Overlord."
Zenkitty - May 25, 2012 7:27:21 am PDT #6673 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I knew the spade thing. I didn't know that phrase was ever NOT racist.
And some of us don't have friends with weird sex things in their past.
Sure you do.
I also had two friends, both male, who had sex with their brothers
Are you just, like, lucky in the people that you know, or is this actually happening a lot more than I suspected it was?