Excuse me, do you speak Me?
A comedy conversation
by SHP 181,276 70 03/02/2010 04:53 AM 316 views
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I'm sure we all have local colloquialisms (y'all), cultural slang (crunk), and work slang that only the other drones in your cube-hell understand (TPS reports). Then there's all those fabulous expressions you learn on Urban Dictionary (Cleveland Steamer) and new words that don't make the dictionary (unfriend).
Go outside the borders of the US, and things get even more difficult to understand. British people get pissed when they aren't mad, and don't even get me started on how the French know what the Frost they're talking about.
Then of course there's GAB speak, which I find myself using more often than I care to admit. 42 is automatically the number of anything made up. Cuddle, in any sense, still makes me think Frost.
It occurred to me that we all probably speak yet another language, though, known only to our household or perhaps our closest friends. My mom used to use the term Whatchamadoodle instead of whats-her-name. I can't help but wonder if the words and expressions I use translate at all to anyone outside of my bubble.
I am going to use my words in a sentence, and you tell me what they mean.
"I am eating a salad for lunch, but I have to pick all the butts out of it first."
"What are those k'nurdles in my sauce?"
"Well, that's what you get for poking a badger with a spoon."
"Who took the flaggum?"
"This shirt is so lummy."
Play along by posting your own personal slang/words/expressions and see if we can translate them.
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Funny
9 votes
3.8
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Hilarious
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Big Irish Guy 203,777 21
03/02/2010 04:57 AM
Do they hand out helmets on street corners in Texas?
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Hilarious
3 votes
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SHP 181,276 70
03/02/2010 04:57 AM
Which brings me to another one of my favorite expressions "Sane is a relative term, and none of my relatives are sane."
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The Mailman 174,473 52
03/02/2010 05:00 AM
"I am eating a salad for lunch, but I have to pick all the butts out of it first."
"Butts" = "greens".
What you're saying is that you're having bacon bits and croutons for lunch, with caesar dressing.
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4 votes
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BillSalamie 66,795 11
03/02/2010 05:02 AM
A flaggum derives from "dad-gum flag". Several years of redneck inbreeding have corrupted an already county term into something even more hick. The term is often used in southern trailer parks when rotten toothed yokels search around for the Confederate flag they want to take to the dirt track race. "Who took my flaggum? I want it in case there's a black at the race."
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5 votes
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KChikita Banana 124,281 89
03/02/2010 05:05 AM
The only one I understand completely is this one;
"Well, that's what you get for poking a badger with a spoon."
Basically, you're saying "That's what you get for doing something that everyone knows you shouldn't do, Emerson."
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Big Irish Guy 203,777 21
03/02/2010 05:06 AM
"Dianada can't post."
Its not part of a regional syntax, its just GAB won't let her post. Sucker.
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Midgets 93,936 47
03/02/2010 05:09 AM
Well, that's what you get for poking a badger with a spoon."
This term is used when referencing the act of inserting an object into an oriface that's much too small for it.
"This is the third time this month you've taken the curtains from the babys room the the dry cleaners."
"Well, that's what you get for poking a badger with a spoon."
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Chuckleworthy
2 votes
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Midgets 93,936 47
03/02/2010 05:11 AM
KChikis post makes sense also.
That's what I get for blowing out my ass before I'm on the pot!
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Future Druggist 2,530 10
03/02/2010 05:19 AM
Don't sniff the cake.
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5 votes
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dinesh 24,837 15
03/02/2010 05:37 AM
Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da' rebound on da' med side.
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Hilarious
2 votes
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Bill the Squirrel 53,130 53
03/02/2010 05:39 AM
Meh, it was funnier coming out of June Cleavers mouth.
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Hilarious
4 votes
4.2
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Ceci n'est pas une Phla 130,632 34
03/02/2010 05:45 AM
Frost Nixon sounds like the scariest play ever.
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SHP 181,276 70
03/02/2010 05:53 AM
"Butts" = "greens". What you're saying is that you're having bacon bits and croutons for lunch, with caesar dressing.
Close. Butts, in this case, is the middle part of each green. The stalk, or core part that is bitter and funky.
Circle gets the Square!
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Chuckleworthy
2 votes
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the fun in disfunctional 1,970 6
03/02/2010 06:07 AM
My last husband (and I mean that in every sense of the word) and I had our own language.
Skueet - Let's go eat.
Jeet - Did you eat?
Whogas - Who gives a Shakespeare?
shimalacka - cocaine (and no, I don't do it...anymore)
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Funny
10 votes
3.6
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SHP 181,276 70
03/02/2010 06:08 AM
So, basically, you snorted coke and spoke Jeff Foxworthy to each other?
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4 votes
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Dianada 57,119 105
03/02/2010 06:21 AM
Hah! I can post again!
You guys are all freaks.
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4 votes
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Disco Bob 4,322 8
03/02/2010 06:23 AM
This morning I though I just needed to Jennie Maier and I wound up Dave Goldberging all over myself.
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the fun in disfunctional 1,970 6
03/02/2010 06:24 AM
Possibly-my husband was 15 years older than I and I wasn't the TV / comedian watcher so it may have been plagerized I thought it was our language. . And no, the coke was a very long time ago.
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Chuckleworthy
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Cyco Ivan 11,324 11
03/02/2010 06:47 AM
You think Star Wars is better than Star Trek? Don't be such a cripple tit
Dave's out trolling for hookers again. What are the odds he gets a bonersnorkel again?
He tries to keep a lid on it but we all know that Bob's a sparkle ass ninja
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Funny
2 votes
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SHP 181,276 70
03/02/2010 06:52 AM
There really isn't all that much fun in dysfunctional, is there.
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peoriagrace 6,153 11
03/02/2010 08:56 AM
That's a Joe Job.
Who was that Fartface.
That Shakespeareeater has 3 DUI's and killed a kid.
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peoriagrace 6,153 11
03/02/2010 08:58 AM
There really isn't all that much fun in dysfunctional, is there.
Depends on the dysfunction.
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Gorky Thatcher 41,132 12
03/02/2010 09:35 AM
There really isn't all that much fun in dysfunctional, is there.
Just one, but without it we get stuck with dysctional and I can't say that without it sounding like "dick shun all" or "dyke shun all" and neither my dick or any GAB lesbian are that picky, so it just doesn't make any sense without it being fun.
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dasypygal-unwaxed 12,075 15
03/02/2010 11:08 AM
I'm a city girl. My husband is a country/ridge-runner boy.
One winter I finally shaved my legs but I was so cold that I jumped out of the shower before rinsing the tub.
A few minutes later he jumped in the shower and yelled, "Who skun a bear in here!"
What the Frost is "skun"?
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Hilarious
10 votes
4.8
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Ceci n'est pas une Phla 130,632 34
03/02/2010 11:11 AM
Past tense of skin of course.
Skin, skun, skan, has skunned, ain't skan, let's go to walmart, etc
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2 votes
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Dance Commander Ravos 62,361 20
03/02/2010 10:17 PM
He tries to keep a lid on it but we all know that Bob's a sparkle ass ninja
Sparkle ass ninja sounds like chi-chi.
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