Veep

[Laurence Horn]

FWIW, that was my take too; this is, after all, how "underwhelm(ed)" (OED: joc.) got started.

LH

On May 14, 2012, at 9:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Could be!
>
> JL
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> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:
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>> I assume that "under the moon" is meant as a negation of "over the moon,"
>> very happy or delighted; The Phrase Finder has a discussion at
>> http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/over-the-moon.html.
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>> John Baker
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>> Last night:
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>> "Shall I fire up the shit-eater?" (Paper-shredder.)
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>> "He's busting my fucking lady-balls."
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>> "You gotta network to get work."
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>> "I let the whale hang loose." (Penis.)
>>
>> I listened to the following exchange five times, and all I can hear is
>> "under the moon," which makes no sense to me:
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>> SELINA: I thought you were going to give me shit about filibuster reform.
>>
>> JONAH: Oh, well, the White House is very much under the moon about that.
>>
>> Quotable quip [Selina's being warned not to make a deal with a xenophobe
>> senator]: "When you go down that dark country road, the lights go out and
>> the scarecrows come alive."
>>
>> JL
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>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
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>>> Yeah, I heard "what's-his-face" years before "what's-his-ass."  Also in
>>> 1975, "what's-his-fuck."
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>>> Besides "what's-his-name," my grandfather also used "whozis."  For an
>>> inanimate object, of course, he used "whatsis."
>>>
>>> JL
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>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
>> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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>>>> wrote:
>>>>> "What the F-word is going on?" ("What the eff is going on?")
>>>>>
>>>> In an episode of The Family Guy, Huck Griffin addresses himself to
>>>> "N-word Jim," after getting yelled at by Jim for first addressing him
>>>> as, well, "N-word Jim."
>>>>
>>>>> "What's-his-ass said so." =C2 ("What's-his-name." =C2 I heard this in
>>> 1=
>>> 975.)
>>>>
>>>> ("What's-his-face." I heard this in 1960, popularized by the same EM
>>>> who also introduced "How ADJ is that?!" and other catch-phrases.)
>>>>
>>>> -Wilson
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