Absolutely

Subject: Absolutely
From: woodsie
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:21 PM

Why is everybody saying "absolutely" all the time?

It used to be "excellent" Now it's "absolutely" - gets on my nerves!

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:29 PM

Because when they say, "Fuckin' A" they get dirty looks from the bishop.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:31 PM

Before someone else says it, allow me to be so bold as to suggest that this thread would best be located below the line.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Azizi
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:34 PM

Yep. You're absolutely right about that.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Dead Horse
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:38 PM

Y'know. Its like, er, one of those, y'know, OK things.
Y'hear what I'm sayin?
Right on.
Ace, y'know?

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:43 PM

"Whatever!"
Grrrrrrrrrr!

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:44 PM

Hey, everything's good.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Amos
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:44 PM

Oh, spot on, old man. Eggzackerly so!! Right on the noggin!!


A

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:45 PM

Well said you old basket.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Don Firth
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:46 PM

". . . like, you know. . . ."

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:47 PM

Smashing! Ripping! Capital! Top drawer!

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:48 PM

Splendid!

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Azizi
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:48 PM

I can dig it.

Righto.

{And Peace, it's all good.}

LOL!

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: artbrooks
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:57 PM

Shur...or, in Bobert speak, sho'nuf.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Amos
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 08:02 PM

Farm out! Right Arm!!


A

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 08:07 PM

Naturally spiffing old chap!

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: gnomad
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 08:48 PM

I confess, it was me.

I've been pulled up for the use of "absolutely" in the past. Have I suddenly become fashionable? This would be a lifetime first, and quite disconcerting.

Can anyone suggest an alternative which will allow me to revert to my customary obscurity?

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Metchosin
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:06 PM

awesome

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Azizi
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:12 PM

Check out the thread, man.

We're not just whistlin Dixie.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Azizi
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:16 PM

My last comment was in response to gnomad's question.

Say, man. We feel your pain.

You darn tootin.

Alright? Alright.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:33 PM

Cool, man, cool.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:33 PM

I GOT IT:

GROOVY

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Duane D.
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:41 PM

Absitively Positolutely.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: gnomad
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:42 PM

But..but..but..which?

I'm bereft, absolutely hopelessly, I tell you, so glad someone feels my pain, sniff.

I don't know if I could get away with "spiffin", but "splendid" has a certain appeal. I'm concerned, though, what if I were to become fashionable again, could I, or the rest of civilization, take it?

Choices, choices, will it never end?

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Duane D.
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:44 PM

I like the way this thread hugs the "Should Bush Be Impeached???..." thread. (kind of a response)

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:50 PM

Wright you are, Orville.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: woodsie
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:53 PM

init?

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:57 PM

Yeppers!

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Duane D.
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 10:06 PM

Ten-Four Eleanor.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Azizi
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 10:12 PM

"Ten-Four Eleanor"

Hey, that's neat!

Does it go along with that "five-six pick up sticks" song?
Ya know which one I mean. Whatchamacallit...The politically correct version, of course.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Duane D.
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 10:16 PM

An out of context quote from Firesign Theater, from the "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers" album.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Azizi
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 10:19 PM

Decidely politically incorrect then...

Hmmm. "Decidedly"-Hey, maybe that would work as a substitute for that "A" word!

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Raptor
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 11:15 PM

I'm sooo not responding to sayings that bug me!

Raptor

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 11:17 PM

That's, like, way cool with me, man.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Raptor
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 11:19 PM

Not

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Azizi
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 11:24 PM

"I'm sooo not responding to sayings that bug me!"

I'm told that Raid works well.

It kills them dead before they spread.

[or is that the slogan of some other product?]

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 11:31 PM

"Look at the ___ (whatever) ___ on that puppy!"

"take the ball and run with it" (used in business meetings a lot by fat guys in suits who haven't run anywhere with a ball in decades, but are trying to sound tough and in charge)

"money talks, bullshit walks" (used by the same guys who say "take the ball and run with it")

"Do I look stupid?" (a question that is invariably asked by people who are clearly very, very, VERY stupid...)

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: GUEST,Courtney Jones
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 11:42 PM

I am like soooo not, like impressed by you people. Raptor's like "I'm sooo not responding to sayings that bug me!" He must think he is like, soooo above it all. Whatever. He doesn't like, rate around anybody I think is, like, way cool. No way. He is, like, soooo out of it. You people are all just, like, sooooo old. Not like I'm insensitive or ageist or anything like that...you know. Whatever. Anyway, like, why don't you all just like leave the, you know, language alone so, like, it can evolve into something, like, new and original and cool. Like my friends and like on TV. I don't have to, like, talk like I was back in some ooooold book like Emily Dickinson or something, know what I mean? Nobody goes out with geeks who talk like that anyway.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 11:43 PM

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 11:48 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Once Famous
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 11:52 PM

Why fucking A, Peace? Why not fucking B or C?

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Azizi
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 11:59 PM

I am soooo not impressed with little miss {or mr} GUEST,Courtney Jones.

First off, she or he said

"You people?" You people!!!

Oh! That's sooo [like] loaded with negative [like racial] connotations. Like wouldn't it be [like] fun and [like] interesting if not [like] educational to explore the ways that language changes like we have been doin?

No? Well then wouldn't it be courteous for a guest to [like] introduce themselves or if not at least to add something to the mix instead of writin a post that disses people cause they don't use the same language as her or his generation. Like that generation is the only one who has anything of value to say and everyone else must say it that same way? Puleeze! Give me a break.

Miss or Mr courtney Jones, you're missin out on the point of threads like these. It's called wit-ever heard of it.

I thought not. Maybe when you get older, you'll get it. But maybe not.

Little Miss [or Mr] GUEST,Courtney Jones {let's see whether you get this} Talk to the hand!

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 12:01 AM

THAT is a darned good question, Martin.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 12:06 AM

'The phrase is first recorded in print in 1947, in Norman Mailer's World War II novel The Naked and the Dead. Mailer has a character say, "'You're fuggin ay,' Gallegher snorted." The actress Tallulah Bankhead claimed she met Mailer at a party and said, "So, you're the guy who doesn't know how to spell fuck." (The story is sometimes told with Dorothy Parker as the speaker.) Mailer told an interviewer he never met Tallulah Bankhead, and in any case he knew how to spell four-letter words--the euphemism was used in order not to offend the sensibilities of readers in 1947. "Fuggin ay" suggests how hard it is to come by cites of one of the (formerly?) most offensive words in the English language--the next print citation of the phrase is from 1955, ". . . freaking-A loud sneeze," where it meant "goddamned."'

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 12:07 AM

A few questions, Courtney. Do you like American Idol a lot? Do you have a tattoo and a couple of piercings? Does your guy wear a baseball cap turned around backwards and pants that are 4 sizes too large and only reach halfway down his calves? Is your hair streaked with pale orange or red or violet parts in it? Or did you go for the Goth look...all black hair and makeup? I have to find out if you are as, like, cool as you think you are...

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 12:13 AM

Like, Courtney could get a good job writing for the American PresIDENT.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 12:17 AM

not to mention that "cool" is a term that's been played a long time in my hood.

[It absolutely ticks me off when people think that they can come into a community [and Mudcat is a community] and tell people off.

IMO, Mudcat is like a family. Some of us get along with some of us and some of us don't. But, if some stranger steps in a disses one of us and then has the nerve to diss our entire community, well then, the gloves are off].

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: LadyJean
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 12:21 AM

From my friend Nils, who served with Army Intelligence (and assures me it's an oxymoron) Fuckin' A is short for fucking affirmative, meaning a rather extreme yes.
Nils is very victiorian about many things, among them vulgar language when ladies are present. But when I mentioned that the villain of a novel I'd written was a crooked right wing politician, and I intended to keep him on the right, he shouted with verve and enthusiasm, F***in A! Followed by an appology.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: JennieG
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 12:37 AM

It seems that the word spelt "Y-E-S" is pronounced "absolutely".

Or - what really peeves me (I would say pisses me orf but I am A Lady so I won't) is to hear it pronounced "absy"!

Don't tell me you have never heard someone say it.......

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 12:55 AM

I loathe the word 'veggies'.