Excellent words and phrases

[Mr. Tea]

The "mouth writing cheques" line reminds me of another great one: "Your ass is grass and I'm the mower", which manages to sound both comically threatening and rather gay.

I can't quite shake the certainty that 'petard' (a small bomb; grenade) - as in "Hoisted by one's own petard" is actually French for 'fart'. In fact that phrase ought to mean "Stunk out by one's own bum-burp".

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

The "mouth writing cheques" line reminds me of another great one: "Your ass is grass and I'm the mower", which manages to sound hilariously gay as well as threatening.

I can't quite shake the certainty that 'petard' (a small bomb; grenade) - as in "Hoisted by one's petard" is actually French for 'fart'. In fact that phrase ought to mean "Stunk out by one's own bum-burp".

You're not wrong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard#.22Hoist_with_his_own_petard.22

Also note here, Shakespeare's probable off-color pun "hoist with his own petar", i.e., flatulate, as reason for the spelling "petar" rather than "petard".

 

[sufi]

i find it rather excellent that shakespeare uses
"what the dickens"

http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/what-dickens

 

[viktorvaughn]

i find it rather excellent that shakespeare uses
"what the dickens"

http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/what-dickens

That is great.

What the dickens.

Isn't there some hip hop track with that phrase in, I've got the voice in my head saying it - gruff, maybe Jeru or OC...

 

[Tentative Andy]

Front-loading.

 

[Mr. Tea]

You're not wrong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard#.22Hoist_with_his_own_petard.22

Also note here, Shakespeare's probable off-color pun "hoist with his own petar", i.e., flatulate, as reason for the spelling "petar" rather than "petard".

Dammit, now I look stupid. For a change.

 

[Tentative Andy]

Nodding donkeys.
Greaseproof paper.

 

[Tentative Andy]

'Come to a pretty pass', as in 'it's come to a pretty pass when...'.
Also a fan of 'put to the sword' used in the metaphorical sense.

 

[viktorvaughn]

made up meaning happy

so and so is all made up

nice and warm sounding

 

[sufi]

i love/hate the way that 'professional' jargon has adopted lots of words from extinct manual trades e.g.

"we're going to do a workshop to hammer out the model using our cutting edge toolkit to forge a line of sight to the deliverables by re-structuring ... blah blah ad nauseam"

especially when used by soft-palmed besuited eejits who've never done an honest day's manual labour in their lives

 

[viktorvaughn]

half-cut for drunk is excellent

 

[baboon2004]

half-cut for drunk is excellent

scuttered, too.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I love the word 'immolate'. Could maybe be used for really drunk - "I got completely immolated last night". Similarly for "annihilated", like you were so pissed it you fell into a pile of antimatter or something.

 

[baboon2004]

dunno whether i posted this before, but the game of coining new names for drunkenness based upon famous people's surnames can occupy a spare five minutes. "I got completely Drogba'd last night" was my favourite.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Haha, ace. Especially as some people are called Muller as it is. I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but I saw a brilliantly cryptic (to a footie ignoramus like me) tabloid sports headline that said REAL SNUB DROG. Which made me wonder how bad the counterfeit snubdrog problem was, and whether we could do with a Campaign For Real Snubdrog.

I had a great conversation a few years back about slang terms for breasts, and my friend mentioned Jordan while we were pondering the merits of the word "Bristols" - I responed with "Jordan doesn't have Bristols, she has Weston-super-Mares!". It just seemed to fit somehow.

Edit: I once saw a great email fwd (yes, one that was actually funny) giving the shortlist of entries to a compo for making new words by changing existing words by just a single letter. One of the best was "ignoranus", meaning "someone who is both stupid and an arsehole".

 

[STN]

"horseplay", "rough-housing"

 

[bassbeyondreason]

I love the word 'immolate'. Could maybe be used for really drunk - "I got completely immolated last night". Similarly for "annihilated", like you were so pissed it you fell into a pile of antimatter or something.

I regularly use "annihilated".

"Rollock-Titted" is a good one, or the old skool "crapulent" and "soused".

 

[baboon2004]

Haha, ace. Especially as some people are called Muller as it is. I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but I saw a brilliantly cryptic (to a footie ignoramus like me) tabloid sports headline that said REAL SNUB DROG. Which made me wonder how bad the counterfeit snubdrog problem was, and whether we could do with a Campaign For Real Snubdrog.

it's pretty bad. kids are dying out there.

i've always like 'shithouse'. And 'pillock' - apparently menaing 'penis' from the Norwegian word 'pillicock' (a great word in its own right). As is 'pissoir whore'.

The change-one-letter-to-create-new-insult game is defintiely worth further consideration.

 

[Tentative Andy]

'Fly-tipping' is a great phrase, isn't it? Not a great thing, obviously, but I love the sound of the words.
'Heavy petting' is another current favourite.

 

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