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Whast does this actually mean?? I seem to hear it a lot lately.

― MarkH, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

New repetitive phrase answers!

― MarkH, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Already talked about in another thread. It's about the diamonds...

― helen fordsdale, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what diamonds?

― MarkH, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's this bling...

― Tom, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bling Bling is a girl's best friend.

― Trevor, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is my nails.

― Emma, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"it's this bling" + "clockfarmer" = i think Tom is paying people to start these threads, purely for the purpose of making these jokes

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aaargh! You lot are just revelling in my bemusement, aren't you?

― MarkH, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Poor Mark. It just means wealth/symbols of wealth (gold, posh cars, flash clothes). Any more I've missed?

― Will, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It derives - rather gloriously - from the verbal representation of the sound the sparkle of diamonds would make if it made a sound.

You'd certainly hear it a lot lately if you hung around with Emma.

― Tom, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank you, Will. You are the Elucidation King.

― MarkH, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

its all about the esofagus bus

― mike hanle y, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wouldn't dare hang around with Emma, well, at least until I've read a few more books about etiquette.

― MarkH, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd never heard it before. I cant wait to try it out on my friends and family. Clearly this should not be used in an attempted bank robbery in NZ ...yet....

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is strange that despite my current blingy aura everyone at work thinks I hang around with people who have dogs on strings and are on the dole.

― Emma, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's outrageous! Show them my beard, Ant's hair and Pete's nipple T- Shirt and they'll soon get the right idea.

― Tom, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the way that the term is increasingly applied to things that would sound in no way like diamonds even in a hypothetical or imaginary way, like bellies and asses.

― Tim, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely the words 'twinkle' and 'sparkle' are ample aural equivalent to the way diamonds behave?

― Will, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sparkle = verb; bling = ejaculation

― mark s, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No because they're polysyllabic.

― Tom, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As opposed to 'bling-bling?' which would be written as a two syllable word in the International Phonetic Alphabet?

― Will, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Repetition of bling implies the multiplicity of the diamonds themselves - the ice on the wrist, the ice round the neck, for instance.

― Tom, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That last post sounded more confrontational than I intended. That's what 3 months of Phonology lessons do to you! ;-)

― Will, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That makes sense, Tom! I was just confused by the: 'It derives - rather gloriously - from the verbal representation of the sound the sparkle of diamonds would make if it made a sound.' upthread.

― Will, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's OK. It's different anyway - 'sparkle' describes how the diamonds look whereas 'bling' describes how they'd sound, if they did.

― Tom, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Think of it in comic book terms: big fat rocks getting hit by a burst of sunlight as you emerge from your SUV: they wouldn't go "sparkle" would they? Surely they'd go "BLING"!

― Mark Morris, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BLING BLING!!!!

― Pete, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's similar to thge sound you get in manga cartoons when light reflects off giant robot dinosaurs, (see battle of the planets/powerpuff girls), though that's more >spr-ching< than >bling<

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Its the transcendental glimmer of a Kenneth Anger film.

― Honda, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Bling" hits you in the eye with its sparklitude.

― nickn, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also has become synomynus (wow too much coding, cant spell) with the rap music pushed by Cash Money Records and the life style it projects.

― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

doesn't pink sing about "blingbling" in "real love".

― di, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

She does'nt want a man with it cuz she wants real love. But she is a FULE - why not ask for both for chrissy?

― Tim, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Well duh I'm to stupid or lazy to say jewelery. So don't axe me no mo questions.

― English Of English, Saturday, 1 May 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Well duh I'm to stupid or lazy to say jewelery. So don't axe me no mo questions.

― Lover Of English, Saturday, 1 May 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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