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20 Jan 06 - 07:21 PM (#1652365) Subject: Absolutely From: woodsie Why is everybody saying "absolutely" all the time? It used to be "excellent" Now it's "absolutely" - gets on my nerves! |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:29 PM (#1652378) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace Because when they say, "Fuckin' A" they get dirty looks from the bishop. |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:31 PM (#1652380) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace Before someone else says it, allow me to be so bold as to suggest that this thread would best be located below the line. |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:34 PM (#1652383) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Azizi Yep. You're absolutely right about that. |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:38 PM (#1652386) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Dead Horse Y'know. Its like, er, one of those, y'know, OK things. Y'hear what I'm sayin? Right on. Ace, y'know? |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:43 PM (#1652394) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: George Papavgeris "Whatever!" Grrrrrrrrrr! |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:44 PM (#1652395) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace Hey, everything's good. |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:44 PM (#1652396) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Amos Oh, spot on, old man. Eggzackerly so!! Right on the noggin!! A |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:45 PM (#1652398) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace Well said you old basket. |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:46 PM (#1652399) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Don Firth ". . . like, you know. . . ." Don Firth |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:47 PM (#1652400) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Little Hawk Smashing! Ripping! Capital! Top drawer! |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:48 PM (#1652403) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace Splendid! |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:48 PM (#1652404) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Azizi I can dig it. Righto. {And Peace, it's all good.} LOL! |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:57 PM (#1652410) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: artbrooks Shur...or, in Bobert speak, sho'nuf. |
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20 Jan 06 - 08:02 PM (#1652419) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Amos Farm out! Right Arm!! A |
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20 Jan 06 - 08:07 PM (#1652423) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Bunnahabhain Naturally spiffing old chap! |
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20 Jan 06 - 08:48 PM (#1652447) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: gnomad 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? |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:06 PM (#1652460) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Metchosin awesome |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:12 PM (#1652463) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Azizi Check out the thread, man. We're not just whistlin Dixie. |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:16 PM (#1652465) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Azizi My last comment was in response to gnomad's question. Say, man. We feel your pain. You darn tootin. Alright? Alright. |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:33 PM (#1652472) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace Cool, man, cool. |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:33 PM (#1652473) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace I GOT IT: GROOVY |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:41 PM (#1652477) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Duane D. Absitively Positolutely. |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:42 PM (#1652478) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: gnomad 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? |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:44 PM (#1652480) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Duane D. I like the way this thread hugs the "Should Bush Be Impeached???..." thread. (kind of a response) |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:50 PM (#1652482) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace Wright you are, Orville. |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:53 PM (#1652488) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: woodsie init? |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:57 PM (#1652490) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace Yeppers! |
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20 Jan 06 - 10:06 PM (#1652498) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Duane D. Ten-Four Eleanor. |
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20 Jan 06 - 10:12 PM (#1652501) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Azizi "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. |
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20 Jan 06 - 10:16 PM (#1652503) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Duane D. An out of context quote from Firesign Theater, from the "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers" album. |
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20 Jan 06 - 10:19 PM (#1652505) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Azizi Decidely politically incorrect then... Hmmm. "Decidedly"-Hey, maybe that would work as a substitute for that "A" word! |
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20 Jan 06 - 11:15 PM (#1652535) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Raptor I'm sooo not responding to sayings that bug me! Raptor |
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20 Jan 06 - 11:17 PM (#1652537) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace That's, like, way cool with me, man. |
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20 Jan 06 - 11:19 PM (#1652538) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Raptor Not |
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20 Jan 06 - 11:24 PM (#1652541) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Azizi "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?] |
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20 Jan 06 - 11:31 PM (#1652546) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Little Hawk "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...) |
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20 Jan 06 - 11:42 PM (#1652552) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: GUEST,Courtney Jones 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. |
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20 Jan 06 - 11:43 PM (#1652553) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: GUEST |
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20 Jan 06 - 11:48 PM (#1652555) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace LOL |
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20 Jan 06 - 11:52 PM (#1652559) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Once Famous Why fucking A, Peace? Why not fucking B or C? |
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20 Jan 06 - 11:59 PM (#1652565) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Azizi 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! |
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21 Jan 06 - 12:01 AM (#1652567) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace THAT is a darned good question, Martin. |
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21 Jan 06 - 12:06 AM (#1652569) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace '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."' |
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21 Jan 06 - 12:07 AM (#1652570) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Little Hawk 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... |
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21 Jan 06 - 12:13 AM (#1652571) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace Like, Courtney could get a good job writing for the American PresIDENT. |
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21 Jan 06 - 12:17 AM (#1652574) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Azizi 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]. |
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21 Jan 06 - 12:21 AM (#1652576) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: LadyJean 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. |
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21 Jan 06 - 12:37 AM (#1652587) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: JennieG 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 |
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21 Jan 06 - 12:55 AM (#1652603) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace I loathe the word 'veggies'. |
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21 Jan 06 - 01:01 AM (#1652612) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Once Famous 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. |
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21 Jan 06 - 01:06 AM (#1652615) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Bee-dubya-ell 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". |
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21 Jan 06 - 02:28 AM (#1652634) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Gurney "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!' |
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21 Jan 06 - 05:55 AM (#1652661) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: David C. Carter "C'est Rock'n'Roll"-French Expression. Where I come from,people have been known to say"Well...Fuck My Old Boots!" |
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21 Jan 06 - 07:06 AM (#1652692) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: gnu 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!" |
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21 Jan 06 - 07:19 AM (#1652698) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: freda underhill Definitely. |
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21 Jan 06 - 09:52 AM (#1652738) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Duane D. FFO |
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21 Jan 06 - 10:14 AM (#1652751) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Amos "Oh, fuck me bloody dead" is sometimes used to express great irritation. Usually on wake-up calls. A |
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21 Jan 06 - 10:16 AM (#1652753) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Duane D. sorry, "like FFO." |
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21 Jan 06 - 04:28 PM (#1653021) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace I just googled 'absolutely', and Google says there are 131,000,000 results for it. Like, wot's that about, huh? |
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21 Jan 06 - 05:31 PM (#1653061) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Bunnahabhain You know, I'm all out out these little phrases that get on your tits.... |
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21 Jan 06 - 08:43 PM (#1653152) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Bill D "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!) |
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21 Jan 06 - 11:45 PM (#1653228) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: JennieG 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 |
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22 Jan 06 - 12:10 AM (#1653238) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Peace 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. |
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22 Jan 06 - 09:48 AM (#1653413) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Bunnahabhain 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. |
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22 Jan 06 - 09:59 AM (#1653415) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: JennyO Not to mention Flourbag. Oops - I wasn't going to mention it. |
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22 Jan 06 - 10:32 AM (#1653436) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: number 6 '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 |
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22 Jan 06 - 06:41 PM (#1653835) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: maeve |
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22 Jan 06 - 11:44 PM (#1653957) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Seamus Kennedy Well, fuck me pink with a whitewash brush - the things you learn on the 'Cat. Seamus |
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11 Feb 06 - 05:55 AM (#1666698) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: GUEST Abso - frigging - lutely Mindless fuckpots |
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11 Feb 06 - 12:13 PM (#1666816) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Janie SWEET!!!! |
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11 Feb 06 - 07:45 PM (#1666901) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: The Fooles Troupe Language doesn't evolve - it revolves... |
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12 Feb 06 - 11:25 AM (#1666994) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Uncle_DaveO 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 |
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13 Feb 06 - 09:27 AM (#1667240) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Amos I think there is a linguistic disbloodyfuckingscrepancy in this thread. But, whatever. A |
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13 Feb 06 - 09:42 AM (#1667243) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: John MacKenzie 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 |
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13 Feb 06 - 12:02 PM (#1667299) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: Uncle_DaveO Absolutely, Amos. Dave Oesterreich |
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13 Feb 06 - 04:09 PM (#1667505) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: gnomad 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. |
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13 Feb 06 - 04:33 PM (#1667530) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: number 6 Oh .... really. sIx |
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13 Feb 06 - 10:59 PM (#1667863) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River 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? |
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13 Feb 06 - 11:05 PM (#1667867) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: number 6 Will someone please remove this lavatory, foul smelling miserable excuse of a human being from the premises...... now! sIx |
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13 Feb 06 - 11:15 PM (#1667871) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Oh!...we are SOOOOOOO flippin' sensssssitive tonite! Flip off, ya flippin' looser. - Shane |
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13 Feb 06 - 11:20 PM (#1667872) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: number 6 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 |
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13 Feb 06 - 11:32 PM (#1667879) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River 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 |
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13 Feb 06 - 11:38 PM (#1667880) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: number 6 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 |
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14 Feb 06 - 06:51 PM (#1668602) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River 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 |
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14 Feb 06 - 06:55 PM (#1668604) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: John MacKenzie God bless your little cotton socks! G |
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14 Feb 06 - 07:49 PM (#1668658) Subject: RE: Absolutely From: number 6 Shane ... go sit on it! sIx |