I guess thinking it came from "sucks eggs" or something less sexual.
That's where I thought it came from -- Phyllis' line, "Oh, go suck an egg!" from Mary Tyler Moore.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I guess thinking it came from "sucks eggs" or something less sexual.
That's where I thought it came from -- Phyllis' line, "Oh, go suck an egg!" from Mary Tyler Moore.
Who actually sucks eggs? I have used the expression "teaching your grandmother how to suck eggs" all my life, but to my knowledge neither I nor my grandmother ever sucked an egg.
(I have blown an egg, however.)
(I have blown an egg, however.)
Umm...nope, too many possibilities.
Umm...nope, too many possibilities.
Oh, I'll say it.
Lucky, lucky egg.
We now resume our previously scheduled nattering.
Blown eggs kill the thread! (Well, how else do you get empty eggshells for Easter artistry purposes? Also, a nice physics lesson about air pressure. Also, scrambled eggs when you're done.)
Also, scrambled eggs when you're done
So that's what the kids are calling it nowadays.
DUDE. I'm now gonna be skeeved every time Keith says "Who's your daddy?" to Veronica. Wahh! My favorite father-daughter relationship on TV! Ruined!
Oh, way ahead of you. FTR, I've always thought of "Who's your daddy?" as having that specific leatherman sexual connotation.
I don't mind either "sucks" or "bites" or "blows", though I get excessively grossed out by elaborations upon them, such as (whitefonted) "that sucks diseased donkey dick" or whatever. EW. But "Bite me" seems fairly innocuous, whereas "Suck me" or "Blow me" are much more aggressive, possibly because they're more specifically sexual, IMO, and "Eat me" is even more so.
And for some reason the phrase "Feed Me, Seymour!" just popped in my head. Not terribly happy about it either.
I wasn't sure whether this should go here or in GWW but apparently, there is a new sort of butt-kicking romance novel inspired by characters such as Buffy from BtVS or Sydney from Alias.
While I suppose the term has spread through the mainstream without necessarily picking up any connotations beyond sugar daddydom, the acquaintance I mentioned earlier was pointing out the narrower usage in the context of his pal using the phrase in a cruisy San Francisco gym at a point in time when his genitals were within about 2 feet of the other person's head.