[2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
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[2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
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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.
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.
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Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
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.
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Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
So, uh, the part about balls really should be "Ouch, he kicked me in the family testicles".
Balls are also a euphemism.
Balls are also a euphemism.
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Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
So then it's a euphemism and a half!
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Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Euphemisms generally aren't considered vulgar.dorbabil wrote:So, uh, the part about balls really should be "Ouch, he kicked me in the family testicles".
Balls are also a euphemism.
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Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Aaah. I had no idea.Sahan wrote:Aunt Flo arriving is, I assume, a euphemism for menstruation.
And the "we had words"?
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Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
"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.Astrogirl wrote:And the "we had words"?
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Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Aaah, now it makes sense.
English sure has weird euphemisms.
English sure has weird euphemisms.
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Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
They sure are idiosyncratic!
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Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
This comic, more than any before, actually reminds me of XKCD.
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Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
So did you see that ludicrous display last night?
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Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Now he's got the ball! What will he will do with it! Maybe he will kick the ball!GUTCHUCKER wrote:So did you see that ludicrous display last night?
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Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
Aunt Flo is visiting is one, the painters are in is another, or that you had a visit from your friend.Astrogirl wrote:Aaah. I had no idea.Sahan wrote:Aunt Flo arriving is, I assume, a euphemism for menstruation.
And the "we had words"?
None of them cover five days of excruciating pain while your body excretes dead matter
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That does not sound good. Have you seen a doctor about it?
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Re: [2011-Sep-05] Half-Euphemisms
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.
I like to think that that's where Aunt Flo lives, with all her other euphemism friends.
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