Personally, I'm bracing for spate of redundant and repetitive and tediously persistant "What is the slang term for [something ridiculous] " postings... -gailr Here's one for all the linguists out there: What's the French, Italian and Czech for "Excuse me, but I'm a Pisces!"? -- PW

Is there an offhand chance that we will ever understand where you are going with these questions, and what they have to do with the Alpha Agora? E.g., you have posted this question under the forum for Languages of the World. "מה זה קשור למחיר מלפפונים בשטחים?" I quite like quiche...oh wai...

OHNO no retroactive birthcontrol, I meant that people are the reason for the expanding shopping extravaganzas. mark the-child Bailey PW hasn't chimed in for a bit. Let's blame it on advertising, so that he will have to react in some way or other. 8) Oh...I didn't know you wanted my ADVERTISING pers...

people should quit having kids. Then we could quit building houses, quit building shopping centers, quit expecting food to tolerate long distance travel and the rest of us could eat real food, not engineered stuff, enjoy flowers and not have huge tracts of McMansions. mark enough-already Bailey How...

Excellent word. As one who scrumped apples as a child, I can certainly attest to the fact that scrumped fruit is more delicious than bought. But the tastiest apples of all are surely to be found in scrumpy.

-- PW

I know he can pronounce "L's" he just doesn't in short words, to which he usually limits himself, Oh and btw he says concreek instead of concrete, drives me crazy, but for me it's a short trip. mark bubba-is-my-favorite-crazy-relative Bailey Sounds to me like he's dropping his "dark-...

It's a word to me that also has an entirely negative connotation. I don't think of the Lone Ranger and his loyal henchman, Tonto... Certainly does to me, too. I mean: "Saddam and his henchmen" sounds much more reasonable than "Saddam and his Merrie Band". On the other hand, &quo...

you mean I can't rely on my vast knowledge of Indiana Jones? mark this-IS-a-bad-day Bailey Since you have this vast knowledge, explain the eyeball soup served in monkey skulls. well maybe it's just half-vast knowledge. mark was-referring-to-the-aotC-movie Some cultures like eyeballs, Philipinos for...

Thought of this today when I heard for the first time "Well, beat me senseless and call me Happy!"

Why the propensity towards violence here?

Probably part of the run-up to the mid-term elections.

-- PW

I've always wondered at folk who find bare feet disgusting, but never blanch at other "bear" spots. mark bruins-run-silently-in-the-forest-because-they-have-bear-feet Bailey Few things are as appetizing at the Waffle House as the sight of 350-lb Bubba with rolls of exposed tummy fat spill...

"Shee's dead, deceast, shee's dead...what the heck!

Nope, just not the same...

Brings to mind the classic Monty Python dead parrot scetch.

-- PW (who though busy and therefore rather quiet lately) is still very much alive

Oh, caffeinista ," he cries, "what's this?" hahahahaha, I like that, but then I would. mark easily-tickled Bailey but wouldn't it be pronounced Ween' ti? Isn't it for storing data blocks? Oh shame on you Bailey for spoiling a nice joke. Like me, Bailey, you seem to be easily shaken b...

It's best to eke with a good deal of feck.

I thought we might be a bit fecked out, but apparently there's quite some feck left in Perry

mark eked-out-another-feck Bailey

Truth be told, I'm exhausted from so much fecking around.

Perhaps we should try for a trifeckta?

--PW

You can tell the natives here by the Starbuck's cup permanently attached to the hand not holding the cell phone... A man walks into a coffee shop for a venti. When he tries to drink, he discovers it contains a pair of Dockers. He complains to the counter staff, but gets nowhere. So he calls the man...

As someone else commented, slang is not only generational, it's also geographical. The slang test pegged me as 60s, but I was a child in the 60s, and a teen in the 70s. However, I live in Australia, and slang moved much more slowly across cultures then than it does now. Azh (still wrestling with th...