BTW....Letty,OAK, Anybody,
...Tell me the first example of an African-american, entertainer, adding a word to the dictionary. Name and Word
wild guess, Boo.
Jazz-Errol Garner.
Jerry, I tink I remember dat. Funny!
Hey, I just found out today that "ghetto grill" means "bad teeth"....who'd a thunk it....
No dear, I'll give a hint, then answer in about 10 minutes.
Hint: One the all-time great dancers.
Has John left the building?
Boo, I just been to turn my bike round. It was a close run thing, but I made it.
I think it was Bill Bojangles Robinson
Someone on another thread commented that a black jew is a "hebro".
Was that me cjhsa? I think it might have been...that's all makey-uppy...but I thought it was funny. Black Jews are actually called Falasha.
http://robtshepherd.tripod.com/falasha.html There is also something curious to white Jews colloquially referred to as the Jewfro....my brother suffers from this if he tries to grow his hair too long.
cjhsa....hilarious.
Hey, Bro. Did John get it correct?
That's why I asked about John. sorry, I was slow getting back.
Yes, and the word is copasetic.
NEGRO, HEBREW = HEBRO.
NEGREW sounds better in my head
Roberta wrote: Do I have peeps? If I do, give me a hint. Should I want some? What this boils down to is--what are peeps?
Roberta, Everyone should have peeps. And I have only seen it used in the plural - you can't just have one!
As a teacher, my peeps tend to be shorties!
: ) You have peeps, we all do!
Roberta,
...Peeps is short for people. Usually refering to the one's you hang out with, or those who consider you one of them.
Okay, I'm now up on the peeps, and my peeps are bad which has become phat. And when I call my peeps phat, I'll be sure to tell them that it's phat with a ph.
Yeah, that's the 4-1-1. Now you got mad skills with the rap,Yo.
oldandknew wrote:In the Uk, the young of the species will describe someone they fancy, as in attractive, as being Well Fit. For example>>>>>>>"
as in this, too (sorry, but as soon as i got to "well fit" i just had to look up some "the streets" lyrics:)
Quote:Get hold of this bird after pub closing hours
Would your girl like this? No don't think so somehow, in the winter showers
But she'll never know and your face will never show ****
This is how goes it and besides she was well fit
And who could resist
Move up to the next place, a smooth club to flex bass beats and your best mates all down
Nice sound, smirnoff ice round.
MC's clowning, ruud boyz frowning
Everything's sweet everything's tucked-in.
And round here we're all downing.
Good grief. Taking my bling blings off; tucking them away in the wall safe next to the hope diamond, and hoping that my fence won't be able to tell the difference with his jeweler's loop.....
Goodnight my bling blings, wherever you are. :wink:
Letty, I'm down with that.
I can smell where yer comin' from . . .
Turns of Phrase: Leisure sickness
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If you've been looking forward to a holiday, only to fall ill with
some poorly-defined malady in its first days, you may have become a
victim to a recently named syndrome, "leisure sickness". The
condition has been identified by the Dutch psychologist Professor
Ad Vingerhoets of Tilburg University. There are two varieties. One
refers to symptoms - which can include nausea, fatigue, headaches,
and recurrent infections - that appear whenever the stress of the
working week is suddenly removed, either at the weekend or at the
beginning of holidays. The other sort is found among men and women
who have become tired of the rat race and who have downshifted to
enjoy a quieter life, only to find themselves suffering from these
recurrent minor illnesses plus boredom and depression, another name
for which is "underload syndrome" (an older generation would have
named it "ennui", an expressive word that has rather gone out of
fashion). Whatever it's called, few of us need worry about the
risks of getting it: research evidence suggests it's mainly found
among high-achieving men and women and that only 3% of those
surveyed have experienced it.
The researchers, who presented their findings at a recent meeting
of the American Psychosomatic Society, determined that people who
are perfectionists, carry large workloads and feel very responsible
for their work are more apt to suffer from these symptoms, termed
"leisure sickness."
[Psychology Today, 1 July 2001]
Those lazy days on the croquet lawn can also make you ultra-
responsive to physiological signals of illness. The Dutch
psychologist Ad Vingerhoets coined the phrase "leisure sickness"
after studying 2,000 people who became ill when they had little
to do.
[Independent, 5 Apr. 2003]
The above just came to me this morning in the weekly posting by Michael Quinion.
