Fuckin' A, Bubba
We have covered this one before and it can't be explained to Euros as Americans don't know what it means either. It's a great one for when a bunch of ol' boys are hanging out and getting hammered. You say this to show you haven't passed out yet.
Don't Get Any On Ya
No-one really knows what you aren't supposed to get on you, just don't let it happen.
Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels
This seems like a fairly insulting thing to say as if to remark that you look like someone so stupid that you would mistake a wooden coin for a real one. It's not clear why a nickel is important as they're pretty close to as worthless as a penny. If it's any consolation, the Euro one cent coin isn't worth anything either. Just to make it really precious, there's a Euro two-cent coin as well.
Facebook Is a Stupid Idiot
Euros understand the expression just fine. What they don't understand is why an American, um, computer genius thought it was important to invent a system to tell us that Darlene has a pimple on her nose. Actually, he didn't invent anything as Steve Case created it in America Online twenty or so years ago. Nobody cared about the pimple on Darlene's nose then either.
Break a Leg
No-one knows why the expression was invented to wish someone luck before an artistic performance but it's now mandatory as if you say anything else then you jinx the performance.
Cut to the Chase
What chase and why would you want to cut to it? It seems like something Brits would have invented to describe the evil bastards who go out hunting foxes on horseback. Why anyone would want to cut to their chase or how one would do it remains to be discovered. It probably has something to do with movies that have nothing going for them but a car chase.
Get Down to Brass Tacks
Why would anyone want a brass tack and what's the difference between that and any other kind of tack. This is another one that doesn't make any sense on either side of the Atlantic.
We All Need the Same View of the Elephant
This one came from the corporate world to restrain people who would otherwise think outside the box and it goes toward ensuring people think inside the box, just so long as the elephant fits inside it.
Jump the Shark
I finally broke down and looked up what this means because I had no idea either. Its purpose is to describe a situation that is way past anything useful or amusing and it comes from when Fonzie in "Happy Days" wanted to jump over a shark on water skis. So now we both know.
YOLO
This is an abbreviation for You Only Live Once. Why this should be so prevalent in a time that also features Facebook and Instagram is yet to be determined.
My Bad
This is when you acknowledge you have done something stupid and you want to say something so stupid it's easy to understand how you came to do something stupid in the first place. Blaming the expression on Americans is, um, my bad as I looked it up and discovered it was first used in this context by William Shakespeare. So, my bad.
No, it's not that I have nothing to do. I just finished what I was doing on Katakolon News and don't want to start anything else just yet.
(Ed: This was all about creating another link to that Web site?)
Yep (laughs). Every link gets Google Search all sexed-up.
We have covered this one before and it can't be explained to Euros as Americans don't know what it means either. It's a great one for when a bunch of ol' boys are hanging out and getting hammered. You say this to show you haven't passed out yet.
Don't Get Any On Ya
No-one really knows what you aren't supposed to get on you, just don't let it happen.
Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels
This seems like a fairly insulting thing to say as if to remark that you look like someone so stupid that you would mistake a wooden coin for a real one. It's not clear why a nickel is important as they're pretty close to as worthless as a penny. If it's any consolation, the Euro one cent coin isn't worth anything either. Just to make it really precious, there's a Euro two-cent coin as well.
Facebook Is a Stupid Idiot
Euros understand the expression just fine. What they don't understand is why an American, um, computer genius thought it was important to invent a system to tell us that Darlene has a pimple on her nose. Actually, he didn't invent anything as Steve Case created it in America Online twenty or so years ago. Nobody cared about the pimple on Darlene's nose then either.
Break a Leg
No-one knows why the expression was invented to wish someone luck before an artistic performance but it's now mandatory as if you say anything else then you jinx the performance.
Cut to the Chase
What chase and why would you want to cut to it? It seems like something Brits would have invented to describe the evil bastards who go out hunting foxes on horseback. Why anyone would want to cut to their chase or how one would do it remains to be discovered. It probably has something to do with movies that have nothing going for them but a car chase.
Get Down to Brass Tacks
Why would anyone want a brass tack and what's the difference between that and any other kind of tack. This is another one that doesn't make any sense on either side of the Atlantic.
We All Need the Same View of the Elephant
This one came from the corporate world to restrain people who would otherwise think outside the box and it goes toward ensuring people think inside the box, just so long as the elephant fits inside it.
Jump the Shark
I finally broke down and looked up what this means because I had no idea either. Its purpose is to describe a situation that is way past anything useful or amusing and it comes from when Fonzie in "Happy Days" wanted to jump over a shark on water skis. So now we both know.
YOLO
This is an abbreviation for You Only Live Once. Why this should be so prevalent in a time that also features Facebook and Instagram is yet to be determined.
My Bad
This is when you acknowledge you have done something stupid and you want to say something so stupid it's easy to understand how you came to do something stupid in the first place. Blaming the expression on Americans is, um, my bad as I looked it up and discovered it was first used in this context by William Shakespeare. So, my bad.
No, it's not that I have nothing to do. I just finished what I was doing on Katakolon News and don't want to start anything else just yet.
(Ed: This was all about creating another link to that Web site?)
Yep (laughs). Every link gets Google Search all sexed-up.
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