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I knew there was a time difference between New York and Oklahoma, but I didn’t realize it was 60 years.
But? There's always a but. When this is over, can we have a big 'but' moratorium?
Fred ,'Smile Time'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Jessica - Apr 18, 2013 10:50:21 am PDT #19317 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
JZ - Apr 18, 2013 10:51:05 am PDT #19318 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.
Re Hil's link, oh UGH. Fuckin' people, man.
I've heard people use that expression twice in my hearing: The first one, when called on it, explained hastily and in Oklahoma-statesmanlike fashion that it was meant in an entirely complimentary way, because she has always had great admiration for the Jews -- after all, they're so thrifty!
The second person insisted that, gosh, it was just a homophone coincidence and it had nothing to do with Jewishness at all; when I insisted that yes, it really did, she said cheerfully, "Well, one of my best friends is Jewish, and we're hanging out tonight. I'll just ask him about it!" I bet that was one fun cocktail hour.
Toddson - Apr 18, 2013 10:52:52 am PDT #19319 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'd heard the expression years ago, but I was under the impression that it'd fallen out of use. Guess not.
shrift - Apr 18, 2013 10:53:11 am PDT #19320 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
There was that NH state rep who referred to women as "vaginas". Oh, excuse me, "vagina's" [sic]. It's all so charming: [link]
Hil R. - Apr 18, 2013 10:54:11 am PDT #19321 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The last time I heard that expression, I think, was when one of my college friends told me that she'd told her mother to stop using it.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 18, 2013 10:54:50 am PDT #19322 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I was about 20 before I realized it wasn't "chew". I said something to my mother the next time she said it, and it turned out she was SAYING "chew" because that is what she thought it was too!
tommyrot - Apr 18, 2013 11:01:28 am PDT #19323 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.
I learned the phrase as a kid from my older brother, who was into buying and selling beer cans at flea markets. I don't know where he learned it--probably not from our parents.
Lee - Apr 18, 2013 11:05:22 am PDT #19324 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
About 8 years ago, one part of my job at the time was to read through depositions of people they wanted to be named plaintiffs in a big class action case, including the one from a woman in Colorado who commented that one of her supervisors was always trying to Jew people down and then not only repeated it when the opposing counsel said "excuse me?" but explained what it meant.
le nubian - Apr 18, 2013 11:05:26 am PDT #19325 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
there have been so many racial/sexist epithets used by people in state and federal legislatures recently that I despair for societal progress.
No, "jew down" is not appropriate, neither is "wetback" or "vagina" to refer to women. Your average 14 year old knows this and they are too young to serve in state and local office.
Fred Pete - Apr 18, 2013 11:10:20 am PDT #19326 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
And, of course, he would scream louder than anyone if somebody used a phrase that stereotyped Oklahomans comparably....