Veep

[Jonathan Lighter]

Last night:

"There's this extreme metal band playing over at Labyrinths tonight. Just
real fucked-up noise! They don't even have a name! Want to check it out?"
 (Delightfully unconventional, "outrageous" noise.)

"You upstate New York dickshit!" (Sic: not "dipshit.")

"You have just put this entire office into a salad-spinner of fuck!"
(Trouble; 'shit.')

JL



On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> FWIW, that was my take too; this is, after all, how "underwhelm(ed)" (OED:
> joc.) got started.
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> LH
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> On May 14, 2012, at 9:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > Could be!
> >
> > JL
> >
> > 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> John Baker
> >>
> >>
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> >> Of Jonathan Lighter
> >> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 6:02 PM
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> >> Subject: Re: Veep
> >>
> >> Last night:
> >>
> >> "Shall I fire up the shit-eater?" (Paper-shredder.)
> >>
> >> "He's busting my fucking lady-balls."
> >>
> >> "You gotta network to get work."
> >>
> >> "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:
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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."
> >>>
> >>> Besides "what's-his-name," my grandfather also used "whozis."  For an
> >>> inanimate object, of course, he used "whatsis."
> >>>
> >>> JL
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>>>
> >>>> 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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