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'.

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