BS: Useful New Word

Subject: BS: Useful New Word
From: GUEST,mack/misophist
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 12:10 PM

Our mates in Australia have come up with a new slang term that looks like it may be useful. I saw it used to describe the Manchester Guardian . If that offends you, use it some other way, it's only a word. And the word is "watermelon". A 'watermelon' is green on the outside, red on the inside, and completely lacking in substance.

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: Amos
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 12:28 PM

Hahha!!

That's a granfaloon!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 04:02 PM

Hmmm - so, Nader... is a yellow watermelon? I like it!

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 07:30 PM

Huh, i like watermelons. ..

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 07:46 PM

Especially if they are in pairs....

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 07:55 PM

I don't get it....

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 08:23 PM

It's a food, it's a drink, it's a facewash!

Big pink watermelons don't really have any substance... you could eat one and then want another 20 mins later... I suspect the usage means an item that looks large and satisfying, but leaves one strangely ungratified.

A bit like being a seagull at work... you fly in, crap all over everyone and fly off again.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 08:26 PM

True, you could eat another one 20 minutes later, but I never thought of washing my face with a big chunk of watermelon as "ungratifying".

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 08:28 PM

All I can think of is El Greko's song 'Watermelon Seeds'. He said that it is common in Greece to refer to children that way.

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 08:37 PM

The expression was first used by the Aussie right wing wankers to try to discredit Bob Brown - of the Greens Party.

Aussies just laughed that one off - the Green ideas must have been hurting bad for such US style political comments to be made.

Bob has a lot of respect for being the only politician to refuse to be gagged in the Aussie Parliament when "Fathead George" spoke there. We still haven't forgotten that the US is the only country to violate Aussie Sovereignty by refusing to allow security to be handled by Australian, but only by the CIA. Only Real Dictators do that stunt.

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: GUEST,Skipy
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 12:01 PM

I watched a chineese film last night, it was very good but 20 minutes later I wanted to watch another one.

Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: Amos
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 12:03 PM

Skippy:

LOL!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 02:49 PM

Italian food is a little like that too. Two weeks later, and you're
hungry for more.

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: leeneia
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 09:55 PM

Watermelon is a good source of iron. My community blood center says so, to people who are too anemic to donate.

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: GUEST,Peter from Essex
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 05:37 PM

Manchester Guardian?

But what about the page 3 girls in the Daily Herald?

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 05:57 PM

Don't they call children watermelon seeds because of what Mom looks like after she has swallowed one. As a child I was told that a pregnant lady had swallowed a watermelon seed. Believed it for years and vowed never to make that mistake.

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: freda underhill
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 06:22 PM

watermelon - green on the outside, red on the inside - as Foolestroupe said, its a kind of reds under the beds comment, as in they're pretending to be Greens (Green party members, environmentalists) but watch out, theyre all closet commies.

another similar one is used in the Koori (aboriginal) communities. If someone is aboriginal, but has no loyalty to the community or is a wannabe white boy, thyre called coconut (black on the outside, white on the inside).

Subject: RE: BS: Useful New Word
From: Leadfingers
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 06:59 PM

Bit like the guy who perfected the mix of Chinese and German cooking .
It was incredibly successful except that half an hour after you had a meal , you wanted to go and invade Poland !