"Goofing off" - what is it?

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Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

How do you goof off? Who do you goof off with? Where? When? Are you ever past goofing off?

It's an odd Yank phrase.

Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

it's not that odd

goole, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

I used it earlier because it fitted the sense of being an adult but playing freely and unselfconsciously (like a child) .Not sure its the best phrase for that but I think I got my meaning across.

in Hull so larkin' might have been more location-appropriate ...

Thomas, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

Goofing off on internet right now.

Trip Maker, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

www.google.com

and what, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

www.goofle.com

Pancakes Hackman, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:23 (seventeen years ago)

avin a laff

ice crӕm, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.wirz.de/music/faier/grafik/goofing4.jpg

Mark G, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

i goof off into my foreskin but i guess yanks and jews cant do that

max, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

slacking off
giggling while you should be studying
watching trash tv and eating sour cream n onion lays and sour patch kids

Surmounter, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)

goof off is the ultimate remover!
http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/5f/49/pr-Housewares-Goof_Off_The_Ultimate_Remover-resized200.jpg

6335, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)

despite the myths that our culture and superegos would promulgate, if there were no "goofing off" in the world, then the entire economic engine would collapse in a heartbeat. the economy is built more upon the fruits of slackdom than it is some strawman notion of protestant work ethic "enterprise".

when the "goof-off" strata begins to crumble is when we really need to begin to worry.

dell, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:32 (seventeen years ago)

italians goof off every day, in the middle of the day, and then come back to work. whoa right?

Surmounter, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:33 (seventeen years ago)

oh, dell OTM.

Thomas, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:34 (seventeen years ago)

http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l442/acrobins/41374.jpg

salsa shark, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 19:18 (seventeen years ago)

the fruits of slackdom

contenderizer, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, you know, it's horsing around.

Abbott, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:29 (seventeen years ago)


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