BS: old geezer's

Subject: RE: BS: old geezer's
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 03 Sep 04 - 09:13 AM

Heavens above, old farts are bad enough any way but to have one that has actually crusted over is a horrendous thought. Are you sure that this actually is a fart and not something a little more advanced on the evolutionary scale of such things?

Get the feeling that I have just time slipped sideways into a different thread.

What medication?

Subject: RE: BS: old geezer's
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Sep 04 - 04:32 AM

I would think the obvious picture conjured up by the term 'crusty old fart' is that of a fartleberry.

See if you can find THAT in a dictionary.

Never seen one myself.

Subject: RE: BS: old geezer's
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 06 Sep 04 - 05:32 AM

A fartleberry is of course one of those staccato type farts that has crusted over. Very much like a raspberry with attitude. Given suitable acoustic conditions it sounds much like a short burst from a sten gun or a pneumatic drill on a sharp frosty morning. Dictionaries have a habit of lagging behind popular usage, mine still says 'wicked' means bad/evil!

Even if you haven't seen a fartleberry, you must surely have heard at least one. Unless you mistook it for Concorde.

Subject: RE: BS: old geezer's
From: Cobble
Date: 06 Sep 04 - 08:39 PM

Geezer. Slang a person esp, an old man. (Dialect pronunciation of guiser "mummer"). Oxford English Dictionary. So not only old men are called this, as I know from my younger days. It was a common usage word in the 1950s for any man.

                         Enjoy Cobble.