Absolutely

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Once Famous
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 01:01 AM

I hate when people, usually women, put their hand on their hip and say, "Wxcuse me! Excuse me!" when you are trying to make a point.

Well, you are not excused.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 01:06 AM

Why is everybody saying "absolutely" all the time?

Everybody's not! At most, "absolutely" is regularly said by about 500,000,000 people. Given that the world's population is about 5,000,000,000 people, that's only one out of every ten people saying "absolutely". The other nine out of ten are saying "absolument", "absolutamente", "absolut" or about a hundred other words that aren't even written in the same alphabet we use. Believe me, there are millions of rice farmers in Cambodia and Laos who've never said "absolutely".

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Gurney
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 02:28 AM

"Absolutely' is to 'Yes' as 'Awesome' is to 'Mildly interesting: Now go away!'

Martin, where I come from, people do say "Fuckin' L!" Sometimes written 'Fuckin' 'ell!'

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: David C. Carter
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 05:55 AM

"C'est Rock'n'Roll"-French Expression.
Where I come from,people have been known to say"Well...Fuck My Old Boots!"

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 07:06 AM

Well fuck me! I did not know that. I used "Fuckin A!!" in a PM to a fellow 'Cat in the eastern US a while back in the Eastern Canuck sense, that is, to express my great joy toward his good news. By return PM, he expressed deep concern and puzzlement about why I had called him a Fuckin Asshole. Perhaps I should have used the modern, "Absofuckinglutely Excellent!"

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: freda underhill
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 07:19 AM

Definitely.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Duane D.
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 09:52 AM

FFO

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Amos
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 10:14 AM

"Oh, fuck me bloody dead" is sometimes used to express great irritation.

Usually on wake-up calls.

A

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Duane D.
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 10:16 AM

sorry, "like FFO."

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 04:28 PM

I just googled 'absolutely', and Google says there are 131,000,000 results for it. Like, wot's that about, huh?

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 05:31 PM

You know, I'm all out out these little phrases that get on your tits....

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 08:43 PM

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

well, as matter of fact, it is none of the above!

The expression was origionally "Fuckin' AYE!" as in YES!, RIGHT!.....but someone (or a number of 'someones') saw it in print, and had no idea how to pronounce "aye" and so said "A" verbally.....and off we went, with no one knowing quite why A was used instead of B....

do a Google search and you'll find MANY examples of AYE and a few explanations. (I first heard it in 1970, in a warehouse as "AYE" and was bewildered when 20 years later, I started hearing "A".

(no...you don't need to tell me "the language evolves", I know that....it evolves even more when people don't stop to ask themselves what they are saying!)

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: JennieG
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 11:45 PM

There is a small village an hour north of Sydney called The Letter A - supposedly named for the formation of the 3 roads as seen from the air.

It's a very very small village.

That's not the A you meant?

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Peace
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 12:10 AM

I saw that on a map. Thought it was an upside-down wine glass with no stem. Go figger. Guess the screen was 180 degrees wrong way up.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 09:48 AM

Ahh, yes, the endless tracts of Australia and New zealand where the first English speaking people there had totally run out of inspiration on what to call something, responsisble for Mt Dreadful, cold creek, and Western australia.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: JennyO
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 09:59 AM

Not to mention Flourbag. Oops - I wasn't going to mention it.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: number 6
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 10:32 AM

'But' ... any sentence that starts with that ... "here we go", why didn't they just get to the point to begin with.

'Ok Brother' ... when used specifically by corporate suit types ... "right on bro"

'nice dinner' ... I certainly would not eat any dinner that isn't nice.

'you go girl' ... what can I say about this "give me a break"

'I was thinking' ... Oh,oh

sIx

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: maeve
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 06:41 PM

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 11:44 PM

Well, fuck me pink with a whitewash brush - the things you learn on the 'Cat.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 05:55 AM

Abso - frigging - lutely

Mindless fuckpots

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Janie
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 12:13 PM

SWEET!!!!

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 07:45 PM

Language doesn't evolve - it revolves...

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 11:25 AM

Gnomad plaintively inquired:

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

How about "Yes"?

Or "Right"?

Or "I agree" or "I agree emphatically"?

Or are those too un-obscure?

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Amos
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 09:27 AM

I think there is a linguistic disbloodyfuckingscrepancy in this thread. But, whatever.


A

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 09:42 AM

Do I agree with all the previous posters? Absolutely not!
Using that as a basic example how can absolutely by taken to mean yes, it requires a qualifier to make it's meaning certain.
Now is that absolutely clear?
Giok

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 12:02 PM

Absolutely, Amos.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: gnomad
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 04:09 PM

Thanks, Uncle DaveO, I'll try those.

"Right"



"Yes"



Hmm, think I make take an hour or two to fade properly, obscurity here I come.

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: number 6
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 04:33 PM

Oh .... really.

sIx

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 10:59 PM

Okay. Here's, like, a couple more, eh?

No shit sherlock!

Do I look stoopid?

Tell me ALLLLL about it!

You are, like, sooooo, right flippin' totally ON, eh? Know'm sayin'?

Flippin' A, man!!!

Does the Pope wear a bathrobe?

Does Jesus save? Yeah! And Moses invests, eh?

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: number 6
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 11:05 PM

Will someone please remove this lavatory, foul smelling miserable excuse of a human being from the premises...... now!

sIx

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 11:15 PM

Oh!...we are SOOOOOOO flippin' sensssssitive tonite! Flip off, ya flippin' looser.

- Shane

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: number 6
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 11:20 PM

Yeah ... I'm sensitive ... no, more like disgusted .... you dreadful piece of sh&t!!

Me a looser .... Ha ... look at yourself, take a long deep look at yourself ... have you no sense of dignity or any ounce of standards.

sIx

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 11:32 PM

What the flip. What are you, my mother? Get a grip and eese off on the flippin' handlebars, Jack. Your gonna get road burn. Dignnity? You got a lotta nerve talkin' to me a bout flippin DIGnity, eh? I know what dignigyt is, man. I have had to walk outta the Iron Horse bar at 3 AM with no clothes on. Don't ask me how it happened. It was a flippin' rought nite.   But I did what I had to do. I walked outta the flippin' bar with my head held HIGH, man.

That's when the flippin' cops arrested me. Never try to reeson with a cop becoz they don't flippin lissen to nothing. They figger they know it ALL. Kinda like you, eh?

Look, man, you ain't my conshenze. If you was, I wiould get it flippin' replaiced, eh? My advide is, have a beer and forget about it. I am gonna sleep like a baby tonite and I whishbone you the same.

- Shane

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: number 6
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 11:38 PM

Go on .... have a another beer ... you standing there looking like a runt weimeraner hound in a perpetual state of having a crap trying to tell me what diginity is .... they should lock you up lad and throw away the keys ... it certainly wouldn't do any harm to the good citizens of the mudcat here.

Go on, be on with you ... just don't vomit on my shoes in passing.

sIx

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 06:51 PM

Yeah? Go flip yerself sideways from Sunday, you bolthole! They ain't never lockin' this boy up again. I am movin' on to fame and flippin' forchune and I aint' gonna remember you when the time comes to, like, hand out the goodies, know'm sayin'?

- Shane

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 06:55 PM

God bless your little cotton socks!
G

Subject: RE: Absolutely
From: number 6
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 07:49 PM

Shane ... go sit on it!

sIx