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Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 November 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Sesquicentennial

Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 27 November 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"the 25th anniversary of being invaded by giant hairy tree-monsters"

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 November 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Okie-dokie.

Miggie (Miggie), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

what's wrong with Okey-Dokey?

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

okay, I see yr point.

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

what about "okie dokey smokey"?

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

LAMPOON.

William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

oakey doakey smokey pokey?

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

sugar

hugger-mugger

of

plonk

plank

plink

grunge

blog

colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

pretentious (everybody uses it differently)

Maria (Maria), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

That's it! You're out of my will!

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

why does colin go easy on plunk?

mark s (mark s), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

He's always been soft on plunk. He's out of my will.

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 November 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Literal--everyone seems to think it actually means "figurative". For example:

"Oh my god, if he comes over and talks to me I am literally going to die."

"We just decided to publish his newest book; it literally fell into our lap, so to speak." (actual quote from a NY Times interview).

webcrack (music=crack), Saturday, 29 November 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

bootylicious

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

curtain. i seem to have said it 2oo times today for some reason and now it just sounds stupid.

donna (donna), Saturday, 29 November 2003 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

moreover

Michael Dubsky, Saturday, 29 November 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

tony (not as in the proper noun, but as an adjective)

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 06:09 (twenty-two years ago)

evidently, but only because it's become my main verbal tic.
i've literally been trying not to say it because it sounds pretentious.
so i've stopped talking so much. but people hate mimes.

Christian Rawk (Christian Rawk), Saturday, 29 November 2003 06:13 (twenty-two years ago)

costermonger
curmudgeon

dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 29 November 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i never read or came across the word "tony" b4 reading pauline kael and did a doubletake when i first saw it ("who the hell's tony hoho") - i don't think it's ever used much in the uk, and in fact always thought of it as a kael-only usage

(pk also uses "logy" - ie like a log - which is even weirder: why not LOGGY?)

(actually i just realised the single g might have been some old-skool new-yorker proofing thing)

mark s (mark s), Saturday, 29 November 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

pukka.

Damn you Jamie Oliver!

Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll defend "curmudgeon" against Mr Latin--and to prove it, I'm willing to become one. "Flabberghasted", though.

nestmanso (nestmanso), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

And then it's "flabbergasted", too. No wonder I'm becoming a curmudgeon.

nestmanso (nestmanso), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Goth (or, if you prefer, "goff").

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"Flabbergasted" is a sensational word.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

What, do Killing Joke use it, whippersnapper?

nestmanso (nestmanso), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

They might, brigand, but I have a vocabulary of my own....you pusillanimous moutebank!

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I slouch defeated.

nestmanso (nestmanso), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

haha this is what you get when you google-image "flabberghasted":

http://www.simfreaks.com/images/forum/emoticons/love.gif

mark s (mark s), Saturday, 29 November 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

ditto "pusillanimous"!

http://www.uwc.ca/pearson/alumni/reunion98/zorba.jpg

mark s (mark s), Saturday, 29 November 2003 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Staycation!

It is a ridiculous word, but that hasn’t stopped the sprouting of so many Web sites with perky New York staycation ideas — Circle Line, a museum visit, a tenement tour and bialy on the Lower East Side.

And, admittedly, it’s a very fun word to say. Staycation. How was your staycation? My parents went on staycation, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt. Our son-in-law threw his back out on staycation.

As is so often the case, this new thing is nothing new in many parts of New York City. It’s just that it was never named by those level-headed working men and women who do not need a tarted-up pseudoword to enjoy a nice week without work. They don’t send postcards, and they don’t take pictures, but in interviews in the Bronx and Queens this week, they shared what will have to pass for the scrapbooks of their 2008 summer staycations.

(Thanks, NY Times writer.)

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 August 2008 18:08 (seventeen years ago)

Staycation is wicked dumb, it is true.

I hate HUNDO.

Abbott, Thursday, 28 August 2008 18:12 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

bipartisanship

Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 January 2009 21:05 (seventeen years ago)

Staycation? Thats dreadful, its as bad as webinar or evite. I'm all for fluid language but making shit up is silly.

Trayce, Friday, 30 January 2009 00:10 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah -- maybe I'm etymologically wrong, but I feel like technically being "bipartisan" should actually be twice as bad as being partisan, no?

nabisco, Friday, 30 January 2009 00:21 (seventeen years ago)

(Oh wait: bipartisan action or support would rightly indicate two-party consensus, but it's constantly used in this way that seems to technically be saying a person or thing or idea is partisan in multiple ways)

nabisco, Friday, 30 January 2009 00:24 (seventeen years ago)

'meh' always sounds snooty and passive aggressive because of that extra 'm' in front of the 'eh'
I always picture it being delivered by that New Yorker mascot dude or a wealthy dowager with great big hamlike limbs.
Remember when it used to be written as "eh?" "Eh" sounds much more blue collar and good-natured for some reason.

Philip Nunez, Friday, 30 January 2009 00:32 (seventeen years ago)

as bitched about elsewhere "postracial"

Dear Tacos, how are you? I am fine. The weather is nice. I miss yo (Oilyrags), Friday, 30 January 2009 00:43 (seventeen years ago)

productionisation

torn between two borads, feelin' like a stan (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 30 January 2009 00:46 (seventeen years ago)

My friend has "meh," in script, tattooed between her tits.

i'm shy (Abbott), Friday, 30 January 2009 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

people are wierd

(newsflash)

Dear Tacos, how are you? I am fine. The weather is nice. I miss yo (Oilyrags), Friday, 30 January 2009 19:12 (seventeen years ago)

I can't imagine what sexy sex it makes for.

i'm shy (Abbott), Friday, 30 January 2009 19:13 (seventeen years ago)

Maybe it makes dudes try harder?

nabisco, Friday, 30 January 2009 19:17 (seventeen years ago)

I'm sure it doesn't make anything else harder.

(dodges tomatoes, many still in the can)

Dear Tacos, how are you? I am fine. The weather is nice. I miss yo (Oilyrags), Friday, 30 January 2009 19:18 (seventeen years ago)

They keep tomatoes in cans?

i'm shy (Abbott), Friday, 30 January 2009 19:19 (seventeen years ago)

Wait.

God I'm stupid stupid.

i'm shy (Abbott), Friday, 30 January 2009 19:20 (seventeen years ago)

Waits, as directed.

Taps foot.

Looks at watch.

Leaves.

Aimless, Friday, 30 January 2009 19:30 (seventeen years ago)

it's "men" isn't it

Maximilian G. Neuchrist (country matters), Friday, 30 January 2009 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

I don't know if having "men" there would be clever or confusing. On the one hand, guys might be reminded not to look at your chest while talking to you; on the other hand, they might start walking behind you every time they needed to pee

nabisco, Friday, 30 January 2009 19:36 (seventeen years ago)

Not catching my obtuse humor for a few seconds doesn't make anyone stupid. Except me, maybe.

Dear Tacos, how are you? I am fine. The weather is nice. I miss yo (Oilyrags), Friday, 30 January 2009 19:52 (seventeen years ago)

I'm all for fluid language but making shit up is silly.

Uhhhhh . . .

Pancakes Hussein Obama (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 30 January 2009 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

making shit up is silly slithy, frumious, and sometimes vorpal

fixed

Aimless, Friday, 30 January 2009 20:05 (seventeen years ago)

oblique, not obtuse.

GAAAAAh

Dear Tacos, how are you? I am fine. The weather is nice. I miss yo (Oilyrags), Friday, 30 January 2009 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

TS: obliquity vs. obtusion

Aimless, Friday, 30 January 2009 20:12 (seventeen years ago)


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