Timelies all!
Looks like this weekend will be pretty quiet here. GOOD.
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sheryl - Oct 07, 2016 12:16:27 pm PDT #28902 of 30003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Toddson - Oct 07, 2016 12:36:56 pm PDT #28903 of 30003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In re the "dropped voice" ... back when I was a teenager (when dinosaurs roamed ghe earth), my then boyfriend (my first!) and I went out to dinner with my parents and some friends of theirs. They lived in New Canaan, Connecticut, and were, to put it politely, less than enlightened. At one point my boyfriend mentioned someone and said he was "a real hunk" ... which led to the woman tugging on my arm and stage-whispering "A hunk! Does he mean he's a HUNKIE?". I was able to say that, no, in our arcane teenage language it just meant he was good looking.
Zenkitty - Oct 07, 2016 1:01:51 pm PDT #28904 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I had never heard the word hunkie used as a slur before. Jeepers.
Steph L. - Oct 07, 2016 1:10:58 pm PDT #28905 of 30003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
My rural 1970s upbringing was full of racial slurs, but I've never heard that one. I'm not even sure what it's supposed to mean. Black?
Nora Deirdre - Oct 07, 2016 1:12:09 pm PDT #28906 of 30003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I was thinking it was a variation of "honky"
Steph L. - Oct 07, 2016 1:17:43 pm PDT #28907 of 30003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Did white people use that term? (Or maybe Todd's parents' friends weren't white?)
I'm realizing this is an area where I'm SUPER naive, so I'm going to stop making guesses.
Jesse - Oct 07, 2016 1:50:42 pm PDT #28908 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I would guess from "bohunk."
Sophia Brooks - Oct 07, 2016 2:23:08 pm PDT #28909 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think it is Hungarian/Slavic
erikaj - Oct 07, 2016 2:34:32 pm PDT #28910 of 30003
Always Anti-fascist!
I think Sophia called it. I wish all the racists get my neighbor upstairs...white enough, but self-involved, lot of romantic drama(I know cause mucho Adele) and the hyperactive child that runs up and down the hall a thousand times a day and night. Seriously, sometimes I miss the drug dealers. All they did was vacuum and have cars park in the front of their place.
Steph L. - Oct 07, 2016 2:35:25 pm PDT #28911 of 30003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Definitely not something I head in rural Ohio in the 70s and 80s.