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This isn't WONK, Carter, please spare those who haven't chosen to be corrupted by our wicked ways... lol
Rachael said:my favorite this week: criminitly. [huh]
BegintheBeguine said:I've also heard Glad to know you. Both of these seem like things I'd want to hear.
Has anyone mentioned Go soak your head! for times when we're not feeling so neighborly?
MikeBravo said:Yes it's a most cromulent word*
My fave expression telling someone to get lost is "Ahhh, take a powder"
A close second is "Beat it, Kid"
* from an episode of the Simpsons. Miss Crabapple (sp?) is amazed at all the made-up words she has heard since moving to Springfield. Another teacher replies. "Yes, it's a most cromulent word."
Bill Taylor said:Alley Opp. Used when you strained to lift something up or such e.g. While lifting a heavy rock, you say "Alley Opp. As I remember, this was more from the 40s and it came from a popular comic strip of the time called "Alley Opp", about a cave man (sort of). Hmm, I may not have spelled it quite right, not sure.
Bill Taylor
Cricket would come from the English saying "It's just not cricket" I'm assuming it comes from the English Gentlemans' game Cricket and means not playing by the rules.MrNewportCustom said:I remember the Marx Brothers using that term, Blacklagoon:
Secretary: "The dean is tired of cooling his heels in the hall."
Groucho: "Tell him I'm cooling a couple heels in here."
Chamorro. How about "Cricket"?
I have a book of Dan DeCarlo's cartoons, which on one page has a near-naked girl asking a guy out of frame, "But is it cricket to play poker with a pinochle deck, Mr. Bitterman?!" Her hand has five kings, his has five aces.
Lee
Godfrey said:When I was a kid we moved from Sunny Melbourne, Australia to Boston, US(of)A. Within my first few weeks of school a another kid brought in something extraordinary to show the teacher. Like a good little Australian I exclaimed "What the bloody hell is that?!". At which point I got a dressing down for swearing. Both "bloody" and "hell" are pretty vintage and inoffensive expletives in Australia and I'm unsure to this day which word was more offensive to my bean-town listeners. I think it was bloody but its really common here so I've never been sure.
example:
During WW1 in 1917 the Germans retreated to the Hindenburg line leaving the city of Bapaume behind which was then investigated by an Australian patrol. The officer in charge returned to his CO and reported..
Office: "They've hopped the bloody twig. They're out of it."
CO: "Who? The Boche? Out of Bapaume?"
Officer: "Yes. The bloody place is empty."
CO: "Your a bloody liar."
Officer: "Bloody liar be damned. You give me the bloody battalion and I'll take the bloody place right now!"
He did... and he did.
So could a friendly yank set me at ease so I can finally die a happy man
I read a slightly different version of this in Richard Holmes' study of the British army in WW1 'Tommy'. He claims that 'to go doolally' comes from the name of a British army hospital that was located in a place called Deoali- I may have the spelling wrong!- which was in India. If soldiers contracted a fever they were said to 'have the Deoali Tap', 'Tap' being the Hindi word for fever. So if a soldier became feverish and started raving, he was 'gone doolally', (meaning gone to the infirmary, or gone crazy.) This is also why we say someone who is a bit unstable is 'Tapped'. The word was probably in common use in the 19th century, amongst 'old sweats' in the Indian army anyway, but then they had a lingo that was unique to them.Angelicious said:
tuppence said:Your parents must have been very liberal in comparison to mine.
Saying bloody would incur a punishment.
So we use to utilise the opportunity of some-one bleeding to say the word as often as we could.
According to my YR 8 english teacher it is the shortening of a blaspheme "By Our Lady"