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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2022 14:19:12 GMT -5
when my friends and I wave goodbye, we still shout: "Bon Jovi" something we started doing in the 80's Heh. For a few years in college and just afterward, a friend and I - mystified by the persistent popularity of Bon Jovi - used to always greet each other by saying "Jovi" accompanied by a devil horn salute. That would brighten my whole day. Although I fear what old age is doing to me, because I've recently become tolerant of some 'Jovi (as anybody ever non-ironically omitted the "Bon"?) Maybe it's to balance out the Megadeth and Slayer I've glommed onto. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2022 14:37:32 GMT -5
I'll pull out old radio and cartoon verbal gags, from time to time, like "Hasty Lumbego". Mostly, I will use expressions I learned in the Navy, like "When the defecation hits the oscillator" and "Busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest." I'll use Yiddish words and phrases a lot, which, despite being as WASP as you can get, I learned from Jewish actors in tv and movies. Yiddish somehow seems fitting when you express exasperation. Ditto, although the majority of my Yiddish exposure was probably Mad magazine. My family used a Yiddish term for a person acting scatter-brained, which to me sounded like "for shimmilled", but as I grew older I realized it was probably one word which started with "ver-"... and I just now looked it up: "vershimmelt - shook up, rattled, in a state of nerves". Now that I think about it, it was mostly directed at me. Untreated anxiety and ADHD for the win! I find "Putz around" to be a satisfying alternative to "F*** around" in polite company. In situations where others would say thingamabob or whatchamacallit, I prefer "rolling truck stones thing." |
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