In an attewmpt to lighten up, I am wondering if anyone has heard of this swear word substitute?
My mother (who is of English and French Canadian extraction, but grew up in a German immigrant, giving way to Italian immigrant, giving way to Black neighborhood) says something that sounds like "fah-nah-bu-lah jyootz" in place of something like "Aw, shit!" or "Oh, nuts". Does it have any meaning? A lot of her swear words are Italian American ones, because those were her friends in high school Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?
Could be related to va fanculo... [link] Or maybe fanabala puttana... [link]
Sounds Italian to me, anyway.
That's good detectoring, Trudy!
I can't nap, even though I want to -- my hands keep clenching up. I'm so sick of being sick.
Sophia's micromanaging semi-boss-man needs to chillax and let her do her job.
Have people seen the Santa Brand Book? [link]
Have people seen the Santa Brand Book?
Hives! I made it to the third page and it gave me hives!
Keep going! It gets funnier!
Or maybe I've just worked too long in advertising?
That Brand House is creepy. And I've sat in meetings where they used terms like that.
Or maybe fanabala puttana... [link]
I think this is it. Maybe she heard people saying fanabla "youse" (like youse guys?)-- that makes some sort of sense to me!
Yay!
Migrating in from Facebook, because I am spending too much time there and not enough at home with the Buffistas:
A local friend just posted that she needs to compose six body-part-themed haikus for extra credit in her Human Anatomy class. She came up with the following:
Nasal passages
You are so filled with mucous
Drip, drip,sniff, sniff, snort
I added:
Faint blue blood blossoms
Red in the right ventricle
Ah, sweet oxygen!
My dear phalanges
Proximal, middle, distal
Twenty, I love you! edited to nuke a stray syllable
Uterine lining,
Why must you make me suffer
Every month or so?
Lower GI tract
Growling, gurgling, gassy, smelly, rude,
Stomach's garbage dump
And someone else chimed in:
round, fat, fleshy, flat
a gluteous maximus
all shapes suit me fine
But I really want haikus from the Buffistas. If billytea, for one, can't come up with some completely amazing and elegant haiku based on an obscure anatomical feature the rest of us have completely overlooked or never knew existed, I shall eat my hat.
Update on my Grandma. The overnight healthcare worker said she did not think we had more than a week. My mother and aunt have a meeting with hospice tomorrow (they cannot come to evaluate on a day that home healthcare is there, some medicare rule). They are pre-making arrangements at a funeral home today also. so much ugh.
