Someone tell me what the votey means:
The aunt wants her to ... bleed?
I get most of the others, except maybe the last one: bun in the oven, horizontal mambo, family jewels, one-eyed trouser snake (a sure way to get killed if you use that as a pick-up line), ... not sure what "we had words" is supposed to reference.
Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:18 am
by Sahan
Aunt Flo arriving is, I assume, a euphemism for menstruation. The joke is that the euphemism becomes redundant when she mentions the very word she would be trying to avoid in the euphemism itself. I posted this earlier, only for the server to go down. But yes, reminds me of a scene in the IT crowd.
Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 3:57 pm
by dorbabil
So, uh, the part about balls really should be "Ouch, he kicked me in the family testicles".
Balls are also a euphemism.
Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 4:19 pm
by Gangler
So then it's a euphemism and a half!
Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 6:59 pm
by DonRetrasado
dorbabil wrote:So, uh, the part about balls really should be "Ouch, he kicked me in the family testicles".
Balls are also a euphemism.
Euphemisms generally aren't considered vulgar.
Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 7:17 pm
by Astrogirl
Sahan wrote:Aunt Flo arriving is, I assume, a euphemism for menstruation.
Aaah. I had no idea.
And the "we had words"?
Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 7:38 pm
by DonRetrasado
Astrogirl wrote:And the "we had words"?
"We had words" is what you say to your kids when you've been arguing pretty heavily. It's a "half-euphemism" because the content of those words is pretty clear.
Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:22 pm
by Astrogirl
Aaah, now it makes sense.
English sure has weird euphemisms.
Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:49 pm
by DonRetrasado
They sure are idiosyncratic!
Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:11 am
by Lethal Interjection
This comic, more than any before, actually reminds me of XKCD.
Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:25 am
by GUTCHUCKER
So did you see that ludicrous display last night?
Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:33 am
by DonRetrasado
GUTCHUCKER wrote:So did you see that ludicrous display last night?
Now he's got the ball! What will he will do with it! Maybe he will kick the ball!
Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:35 am
by carbonstealer
Astrogirl wrote:
Sahan wrote:Aunt Flo arriving is, I assume, a euphemism for menstruation.
Aaah. I had no idea.
And the "we had words"?
Aunt Flo is visiting is one, the painters are in is another, or that you had a visit from your friend.
None of them cover five days of excruciating pain while your body excretes dead matter
Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:55 am
by Astrogirl
That does not sound good. Have you seen a doctor about it?
Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:47 pm
by Oldrac the Chitinous
Back in the Bad Times, when I was missing weeks of class at a time, I would tell people when I got back that I had just returned from a visit to Catatonia.
I like to think that that's where Aunt Flo lives, with all her other euphemism friends.
