the phrase 'do me a solid': gross or super-gross??

stop saying this

Do me a liquid

Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

US phrases that will probably never take off in the UK

super-gross

make me a boom-boom

very otm thread *chunks a deuce*

great episode of regular show about this. SUPER gross.

Only ok when Fagen and Becker use it.

idg what's gross about this

^^^ *habitually does solids for people*

Did people say it before Kramer? Seems like it was at least partly popularized by that one ep of Seinfeld, if not originated per se

Better or worse than "do me a strawberry flavor"?

Okay no one says that

Did people say it before Kramer?

this phrase has been around since the early 60s, if not earlier

One of our vendor salesmen at my old job used to say that, a fat-necked, jowly, older man whose face was so red I always worried he was in fact having a heart attack right there. I'm not completely sure I would have called for medical assistance.

He also called me "dear," so....

Mookie

Sal, just this once.

Can't you do me a solid, man?
Sal

Not till tonight when we close.

always thought of this as black slang, so kinda oddly ironic that it would be attributed to a shitty racist comedian

A 1973 issue of TIME listed it as an example of lingo in the pop-music biz:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903845,00.html

Well, the character wasn't raci- oh wait you meant Larry David fair enough

Xp

lol yeah I figured it predated Kramer but that was definitely where I learned it (and when he says it the other characters kind of repeat it mockingly, like it's a really obscure or antiquated phrase)

A 1973 issue of TIME listed it as an example of lingo in the pop-music biz:

the weirdest thing about that list = "indies"

lol yeah I figured it predated Kramer but that was definitely where I learned it (and when he says it the other characters kind of repeat it mockingly, like it's a really obscure or antiquated phrase)

Well, it definitely takes off in popularity in the mid-1990s (at least in written English): http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=do+me+a+solid&year_start=1950&year_end=2010&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=

I only know it from seinfeld but I'm a brit so

I continue to marvel at your stats jaymc

The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms (2000) includes "do me a solid" in its chapter on "New Yawk Tawk":

do me a solid Do me a favor. Used by the character Kramer on the New York-inspired television comedy Seinfeld.

A 1973 issue of TIME listed it as an example of lingo in the pop-music biz:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903845,00.html

― jaymc, Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:58 AM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark

that makes me think of when abc or nbc had a miniseries called THE 70S like 12 years ago and in all the ads for it there was this dramatic shot of a young woman smiling and saying "Solid." in response to something like it was the most epic thing in the world. wish i could find the commercial on youtube

the weirdest thing about that list = "indies"

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah! I wish it didn't cut off for non-subscribers. I'd like to know what that meant!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dYb_J2919Pc/T5m60xOrBCI/AAAAAAAAEwU/gJ15YmiOp_A/s1600/l.jpg

Yeah! I wish it didn't cut off for non-subscribers. I'd like to know what that meant!

OK, I have a subscription through work, so I looked it up. Then I created a poll:
"Of Freaks, Indies and Bubble Gum": TIME Magazine's List of Music-Biz Lingo, 1973

idg what's gross about this

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:39 AM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ *habitually does solids for people*

― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:40 AM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dying

Better or worse than "do me a strawberry flavor"?

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:43 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Okay no one says that

― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:44 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have heard people say this! You know who says this? The same kind of idiots that say "cool beans", that's who.

Anyway do me a solid is super supper gross.

do me a solid for supper

SUPER SUPPER gross

oops

if anyone ever says this to me i pretend to not understand what they mean and make them say favor instead

Have heard "do me a flavour", its along the lines of "how you doodlin"

how you doodlin

OK, now you're making stuff up. Either that or you hang out with Ned Flanders.

I'd do all of you a solid. that's how much I love you all

Mo Solid Crew

who says this now? is it an ironic affectation or like a homage or something? where are you going that you hear people saying this so much that its started to bother you?

this kid i know from florida says it all the time and its spreading i hate it

i can't help but think of that whole episode of Regular Show devoted to this

i say it on the semi-reg tbh

I say this to Jeff sometimes and he hates it.

I'd rather someone offer me a "solid" than a "flavor" any day.

is it a southern thing?

i also dont really get how its gross at all, its kinda corny but all slang is kinda corny

As with many things on ILX, it all comes down to a poop joke.

For sure. I do say it sometimes, but only if I'm talking to my dog

a good turn of phrase imo

http://www.yidio.com/showimages/xavier_renegade_angel_186x250.jpg

"do yourself a solid, and walk away"

in the future everything will be a poop or penis reference

'the future'

do me a kindness > do me a solid

do me a mitzvah > all of the above

is it really a mitzvah if you have to ask for it

i guess outside of the gross-ness of this i'm also taken aback by using 'solid' as a noun, moreover as a countable noun

peel me a grape

do me a milk solid

how you doodlin

OK, now you're making stuff up. Either that or you hang out with Ned Flanders.

I swear! not so much ned flanders as I had a brentish boss

hey, buddy... you owe me a solid

It's kind of always been there in the background. I don't really notice it, other than that it's a really pushy way to ask for a favor. Try "would you be so kind as to", or "could you" or "please". "Do me a solid," kind of subtly gets my hackles up.

I kind of love "How you doodlin'?"

kind of guy says "do me a solid" is like 80% more likely to call a stranger "buddy"

is that right, chief?

How you droolin'?

aah just noticed am0n's xavier warrior angel pic <3

Gross

http://oi43.tinypic.com/30bgtog.jpg

distressed by the juxtaposition of "solid" and "loose" there tbh

do me a solid

Solid diplomacy.

kind of guy says "do me a solid" is like 80% more likely to call a stranger "buddy"

What is an appropriate term to address a stranger? Serious question, I've found myself using buddy a bit but it doesn't really seem right

'Do You A Solid" should be the advertising slogan for Burgerpipe.

it sure as hell ain't buddy, pal

It's not buddy or pal, mate.

hey dude don't call me dude

http://www.warwingsart.com/12thAirForce/SolidJackson.jpg

No-one noticed this in Iron Man 3 huh