Expressions

[AbsintheFather]

In Buffalo it's The Thruway or Da Truway.

It's Giggle's fault...and I, too, am/was a linguist.



or NFW

A cunning linguist?

 

[BradBigBrain]

A cunning linguist?

You'll have to ask Gracie.

 

[Blues]

So . . . you were a 'Porch Monkey' ?

Never heard that one.

This is a porch.
http://www.mvpweatherwise.com/images/products/Columns/large/premier%20column%20with%20railing_l.jpg

 

[Greeneyedcanadian]

A cunning linguist?

 

[tolyk]

Porch monkey isn't an expression, it was a racial slur.

 

[Greeneyedcanadian]

I always thought it meant somebody sitting on a porch....how naive am I.

 

[GiggLeGasm]

In Buffalo it's The Thruway or Da Truway.

It's Giggle's fault...and I, too, am/was a linguist.

why do I get blamed for everything?!

I used to love going to my grams.. she would serve us Jumbo for lunch. sometimes it would be fried jumbo on toast..

so good you could lick your pippic

 

[BradBigBrain]

Porch monkey isn't an expression, it was a racial slur.

I always thought it meant somebody sitting on a porch....how naive am I.

Urban Dictionary's number 1 is just a person sitting on the porch...that was us back in the day. I'd never heard it being a racial slur until later.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=porch+monkey

why do I get blamed for everything?!

I used to love going to my grams.. she would serve us Jumbo for lunch. sometimes it would be fried jumbo on toast..

so good you could lick your pippic

Just cuz.

What is jumbo? and pippic?

 

[GiggLeGasm]

What is jumbo? and pippic?

jumbo - bologna
pippic (or pipik) is your belly button

 

[AbsintheFather]

Porch monkey isn't an expression, it was a racial slur.

It could be used that way I suppose, but we used to call ourselves porch monkeys when we were hanging out on someone's front porch or steps. That was in the 70's.

 

[Greeneyedcanadian]

Never would have guessed either of those.

 

[Blues]

Yep...played a lot of stoop ball and this game...
http://www.streetplay.com/photos/images/stickbl1.jpg

which we called steamball.

Was called stickball here and played with a Spaldeen, a little pink ball.

 

[Blues]

jumbo - bologna
pippic (or pipik) is your belly button

Get outta here! (or I never heard of that)

 

[tolyk]

Urban Dictionary's number 1 is just a person sitting on the porch...that was us back in the day. I'd never heard it being a racial slur until later.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=porch+monkey



Just cuz.

What is jumbo? and pippic?

Doesn't matter what urban dictionary definition is number 1, that does not discuss origin (and it's all user input like wikipedia) . It's from the early 1900s, and was definitely a racial slur. I looked it up the first time I heard it.

 

[lacandy]

I lived in the south for several years and one weekend my boss asked what we were going to do for the weekend. I told her that we were going to barbeque. She stopped and looked at me with a funny expression...

I said, you know burgers on the barbeque?

This, word for word, is her reply to me...

"Oh, honey. In the south we griiiiillll or cookout. Barbeque is what we eat at Sonny's"

So in California we would have a barbeque, but in Georgia, that is sliced meat with sauce on it...

 

[lacandy]

Doesn't matter what urban dictionary definition is number 1, that does not discuss origin (and it's all user input like wikipedia) . It's from the early 1900s, and was definitely a racial slur. I looked it up the first time I heard it.

I've only ever known it as a racial slur...

 

[GiggLeGasm]

I'm guessing that porch monkey might have started one way and evolved. We just didn't say it where I grew up. It wasn't considered a nice thing to say regardless your race. My distant cousins used to say it about them folks in the hills that was too busy laying around to get a job.. and them folks was usually black where they lived..

It's kind of like.. we used to feel gay around the holidays..
today, it's totally different

 

[BradBigBrain]

jumbo - bologna
pippic (or pipik) is your belly button

Ah....lots of Yiddish words entered our vernacular.

The Poles in my 'hood referred to their underwear as gotches....I understand that was taken from the Yiddish, too.

 

[GiggLeGasm]

let's not even get started on our fascination with the tuchus

 

[BradBigBrain]

let's not even get started on our fascination with the tuchus

I've now started using the word dreck.

 

[GiggLeGasm]

I've now started using the word dreck.

well.. why wouldn't you. It just sounds yuckier than "garbage"

My mom used to say, "until the cows come home."
We didn't live on a farm.
::blink::
::blink::

 

[BradBigBrain]

well.. why wouldn't you. It just sounds yuckier than "garbage"

My mom used to say, "until the cows come home."
We didn't live on a farm.
::blink::
::blink::

My mom would say "shit or get off the pot." And we had running water and toilets.

 

[Greeneyedcanadian]

These are fun....I always liked 3 sheets to the wind.
Night everyone.

 

[Blues]

What do you call these?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dRxrw3i5BkE/Sesu-CuOaSI/AAAAAAAAFps/yCV-1Se3bL0/s320/Diannes+itchy+balls.jpg


They are called "itchy balls" here.

 

[Hypoxia]

Roof rabbits (squirrels)
Catheads (soda biscuits)
Spads (retards E of LA)
Freaks (aficionados)
Balling (screwing)
Pooning (screwing)
T-Birding (screwing)
Ralfing (vomiting)
Groovy (approval)