March 11, 2006

• I'm using this line from now on.
• I'm quite fond of "I LIKES 'EM WILD AN' WOOLLEY!" (pg 13) myself. I don't quite understand what it means, but it sounds naughty...
• These depress the crap out of me. I wonder why?
• Perhaps they remind you of dismal days on shingly beaches in the drizzle, trying to pretend you were having fun. Or perhaps its just Michael Winner.
• I'M AFRAID I'VE RUN OUT OF TALCUM POWDER MADAM, BUT IF YOU'D WALK THIS WAY - ! But...but if you look closely, you'll see the sign behind him says "Drug Department". Surely he could buy some there.
• Is that why he's standing so bow-legged? That nasty rash on his coin-purse has no talc?
• That little boy is totally peeing on the dictionary.
• fie on your beaches littered with sand shingly beaches sound far more grand the waters hiss and the pebbles roar so the jolly beachcomber is filled with horror
• Beachcombers Nick Adonidas combed the wild Sunshine shore, tugging the coastline for salvage and more, adventures and women and Relic's plagued he, who loved only one, her name: Persephone, with his mate they fought smugglers and tamed the wild dogs, and Jesse's sharp sentry caught sight of stray logs, though storms and through calms, sucesses and follies, the three always landed in close Reach of Mollie's, then one night in fall Nick never came back, Gerussi succumbed to a fatal attack, after decades of stories, Philo's old cyclops breathed, and fell silent, hang-headed, for the rime that he weaved, but sometimes he remembers, and the dynamo roars, as Nick and Persephone comb the wild Sunshine shores.
• Those are bizarre. Nice find, Pleg.
• I don't get it 'WHAT A NICE LITTLE DOG YOU HAVE!' 'IT ISN'T A DOG, SIR, IT'S A RUDE WORD!!'
• Bitch.
• That is, 'Bitch' is the rude word.
• In this age, dwelling in spaces increasingly denuded of books, many folk may not be as familiar with the time-honoured terms for domestic animals as most people were even fifty years ago. male domesticated canine = dog female = bitch young = pup or whelp Dogs are the oldest species of domesticated animal -- and in relatively recent times Bitch has acquired pejorative meaning in English. In some countries, Dog as a species has pejorative associations. It is interesting how some animals, such as the pig, are maligned in one period or culture and yet are not in another.
• Comparing a man to a stallion, dog or bull is often a compliment of sorts. Comparing a woman to a mare, bitch or cow is not.
• I have been told that 'rat' has no pejorative connotations in German - that you can call someone an old town-rat (alte Stadt ratze? Dunno.) without the slightest offence. But I can't speak from experience, or indeed knowledge of German. muteboy: just as "I am your master" does not equate to "I am your mistress".
• Cows are sacred, muteboy! Also, you might note that people take matters into their own hands. If you want to be offended you must take offense: though it may be a gift - it must be accepted. For frame of reference: modern self-referential use of the words queer, nigga and, to a lesser degree, bitch. And for the record, I don't believe any bullshit about false empowerment or self-loathing when it comes down to any kind of enclosures style revolution. I'd say the tools depend on the toolmaker, not the other way around.
• Oh and by the by, I've never seen bull-headed, he's full of bullshit, he's a bull-in-a-china-shop, dog-fucker, he's a dog, or way to go, stallion in a positive light. The only positive things I can think of are: "strong like a bull", "loyal or obedient as a dog" (is this necessarily positive?) maybe something about being good friends as in "my dawgs" (I don't see why everyone sees the negative "bitch" connotation continuing with this change... stubborn habits, I suppose), and something along the lines of "love stallion" (maybe?), but I'd laugh at most of them because they are mostly sarcastic insults. I dunno, dawg, what have you got?
• Joey called Roger a "bastard," And Roger called Guido a "freak." Guido called Mr. O'Toole a "maraca;" He cried in his room for a week, Then he called Brother Ambrose "St. Buglips," So Ambrose called Daisy a "hick." She called her husband a "tight-fisted, grub-loving, Snot-nosed, potato-breathed prick." So he took out his anger on Leo, And called him a "jam-assed piranha," And Leo went home to his mother, And called her a "knock-kneed iguana." (When, in fact, 'though her skin was all scaly, And her eyes were quite beady and small, And her tongue flickered over her thin lizard-lips, She just wasn't knock-kneed at all!) Then, brimming with raw indignation, She called Marcie a "moth-eaten slut." Marcie called Aaron a "prune-faced old coot;" He stared at her, hollering, "What?" So she put in his Whisper 2000 And called him a "clam-sucking dope," And he went to Joey, who started it all, And washed out his cakehole with soap.
• So Doggone Sorry Rainin' cats and dogs. Who leads a dog's life? Restless as a bitch in heat? Someone's in the doghouse. Hair of the dog, cheers. Drunk as a fiddler's bitch. Stop houndin' me! Thought he was top dog. He was lyin' doggo. Naw, he was bitchen. He was goin' to the dogs. Always bitchin' about things. Looked like a dog's breakfast. Me and the bitch kitty... we're all bitched up. Don't eat at a dog-wagon. None o' that dogshit! It shouldn't happen to a dog. Who's a mangy cur? Who you callin' a mongrel? Aw, darlin', let me be your salty dog.
• ))) for ye, Monster!!!
• ))) backatcha, Bees!
• I'm stealing "jam-assed piranha."
• I think "Jam-assed piranha" is public domain. "Marmalade-assed clownfish," however, is copyrighted to the Werzog.
• That was awesome, Underpants!
• Beautiful, TUM. And thanks bees I forgot "top dog".