I remember my mother having to explain to me what it meant when Grandma said Dean Martin could put his shoes under her bed any day.

That hootenanny nurse looks kinda like Natalie Portman. I wonder if they can get her for the film version.

Wow, something about this thread is so fetch.

I can dig it, baby.

Are we younger folks really so stupid we can't pick up what "tomfoolery" means by context? or "poppycock?" I mean, we're socialized enough to realize by tone whether the word means something good or bad, right?

...right?

"I hope you have a license for that firearm."

[unintelligible]

[slightly less unintelligible translation]

"He does for this one."

That article is balderdash!!

busy chillin': This thread is the bees knees.

Them's the Cat's Pajamas, man.

To hell with trying to understand slang. What we really need is some way to teach children the actual language. If only there was some sort of tool out there to double-check your spelling and grammar.

Oh, I never pass up a chance to post this gem:





/hot like johnnycakes

Did nobody else notice that the company producing the "dictionary" specialises in equity release plans. In other words, reverse mortgages for old people. No apparent attempt at free publicity here...

MBarry: "I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?"

/hot-linked like an atom smashing factory
//The Japanese? Those goldfish tending, sandal wearers?

Good sir, thou dost one-upeth me.

H_is_for_Heretic: "When are we meeting you tonight for dinner?"

"We already had dinner this afternoon...do you mean supper?"

Dinner and a movie FTW

People should know these words anyway.

on a different note

you haven't lived until you've heard an adorable old lady, after being cut off in traffic, say "sometimes people can be such a dildo!"

well, i think i'm going to turn off the telly and mosey on over to the icebox and grab a can of suds.

cynic32: In a San Francisco bakery a few years ago, I asked my customer (who gave no evidence of not being a native English speaker) if she would like a sack. She claimed not to understand what a sack is. After the initial WTF interchange, she concluded the word must be "olde English or something..."

I think the word "bag" has pretty much replaced the word "sack" in the U.S., but I suspect sack is still more regularly used in Britain and places like India. I was in a store not too long ago and the girl motioned to a paper bag and asked me if I wanted her to put my things in a sack; it took me a second to process what she said just because I'm used to people calling it a bag.

pwn3d781: Wow, something about this thread is so fetch.

Stop trying to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen.

H_is_for_Heretic: Although I do still call occasionally porn "blue movies"

Smurf porn?

Most people born after 1984 have never seen a reel to reel tape deck

Are they going to have words like "hard work" "dedication" "respect" in there?

How about "porchmonkey", "slant eyes", "those types"

This could be real fun.

This thread is copacetic!!(sp)

To me, a "sack" is something large and made and made of canvas or some other hefty material. i.e. a burlap sack.

A "bag" is smaller and made of paper or plastic. i.e. a grocery bag.

like a sack is something you put a bunch of dirty laundry in and pull a drawstring at the top.

If somebody at the supermarket or gas station asked me if I wanted a sack I'd probably ask them to repeat themselves, too.

Does not approve of tomfoolery.

this site is rapidly turning into fark.uk, and it's getting a little irritating now...

My old polish granny used to say the word "henna" a lot. I never figured out what it could mean, except maybe "hey now" but it was more a request for affirmation like "know what I mean".

Used like this; "That was pretty funny, henna?"

My grandma said "Well, I'll be switched to Georgia" and "She's a real goin' Jessie."

She also called a semi a "big ol' truck." She might have been truly insane. I don't know.