Tar-Zhay; Jean-Claude Penne; Wal-Fart; Albertscums; Needless Markup; Taco Hell

Mon Jan 17 07:02:54 UTC 2005

TAR-GAY--130 Google hits, 21 Google Groups hits 
TAR-ZHAY--1,140 Google hits, 106 Google Groups hits 
TAR-JAY--1,890 Google hits, 410 Google Groups hits 
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This is an old topic. At alt.folklore urban on October 20, 2004, some people  
named Alice Faber and Ben Zimmer addressed this: 
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Alice Faber wrote:  
> I wonder if this is based  on the mock-French pronunciation "tar-zhay"
> that some  people use.

Then the nefarious Jacques Penné should be the  next target.
Ben "and then it's Krogér's turn" Zimmer 
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The HDAS has covered retail nicknames such as this. However, neither "Jacques 
 C." nor "Jean-Claude" Pen-NAY is there....One hopes for "Wal-fart" and  
"Taco-Hell" entries...Under "Needless Markup," there are 1995 and 1996 entries  
collected by "J. Sheidlower." That nickname is from at least 1991. 

(GOOGLE GROUPS)
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_Clothing Store Peeves + Misc. Bitching_ 
(http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.peeves/browse_frm/thread/cb677c7b1d453612/c76dd0e42518600e?q="tar+zhay"&_d
one=/groups?as_q=&num=100&scoring=d&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&as_epq=tar+zhay&as_oq=&as_e
q=&as_ugroup=&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&lr=&as_qdr=&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_min
m=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=16&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=2001&safe=off&&_doneTitle=Back+t
o+Search&&d#c76dd0e42518600e)   
... When it comes to discount chains, I patronize that upscale French  store, 
Target
(pronounced "tar-ZHAY.") Buy your clothing from  the flea market, like I do. 
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_alt.peeves_ (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.peeves)  - Aug 20  
1991, 12:52 pm by Geoff Miller - 17 messages - 11 authors 
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_Standard English_ 
(http://groups-beta.google.com/group/bit.listserv.mbu-l/browse_frm/thread/2ca5579472b7d577/0970216717f0316b?q="tar+jay"&_done=/groups?q="
tar+jay"&start=200&scoring=d&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&num=100&as_drrb=b&as_
mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=16&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=2001&&_doneTitle=Ba
ck+to+Search&&d#0970216717f0316b)  
... PRINT, --GET  IT-- But the words are, you know, like the KIND OF YAP YOU 
HERE AT
FACULTY  MEETINGS, ****NOT!!!!* Imean like gossip by the undies at TAR-JAY.  
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_bit.listserv.mbu-l_ (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/bit.listserv.mbu-l) 
 -  Dec 7 1992, 3:38 pm by mer - 34 messages - 18 authors 
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_Boycott "Toy Story" ??_ 
(http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.folklore.urban/browse_frm/thread/79978203db03df2f/799d01dd644265bb?q="wal+fart"&_done=/gro
ups?q="wal+fart"&start=100&scoring=d&num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&lr=&as_qdr=&as_drr
b=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=16&as_m
axm=1&as_maxy=2001&safe=off&&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#799d01dd644265bb)  
"Oh gee, we're pretty  stupid and lame-ass" Wal-Fart responded when they put
the  shirts back up after massive, nationwide protest. False. ...    
_alt.disney.secrets_ (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.folklore.urban) 
 -  Jan 22 1996, 2:20 pm by Michael Heinz - 33 messages - 26 authors 
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_BEWARE NEIMAN-MARCUS CAFE: $250-00 RECIPE FOR  COOKIES!_ 
(http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.food.restaurants/browse_frm/thread/e1c1247862b37b48/e2af6
541b43b9011?q="needless+markups"&_done=/groups?q="needless+markups"&start=0&sc
oring=d&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&num=100&as_drrb
=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=16&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=1999&&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#e2af6
541b43b9011)  
... soda 4 eggs 24 oz.  chocolate chips 2 tsp. vanilla 1-8 oz. Hershey bar, 
grated
They'd use  *Hershey* at Needless-Markups? Now you KNOW this is a crock.  ... 

_rec.food.restaurants_ 
(http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.food.restaurants)  - Dec 22 1991, 12:42 pm by Roger Lustig - 2 messages  - 2 authors 
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_Capitalism means stratification_ 
(http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.society.anarchy/browse_frm/thread/f300d0e4818f3f97/f477e8be18a9ee8f?q="needless+m
arkup"&_done=/groups?q="needless+markup"&start=100&scoring=d&num=100&hl=en&ie=
UTF-8&lr=&as_qdr=&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=16&as_max
m=1&as_maxy=2000&safe=off&&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#f477e8be18a9ee8f)  
... is used very frequently in the sweat shops of San  Francisco's Chinatown, 
where clothes
are sewn for the fashion plates who shop  at Needless Markup stores. ...   
_alt.society.anarchy_ 
(http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.society.anarchy)  - Nov 8 1993, 4:14 am by Lizard - 21 messages - 5  authors 
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    Neil Koomen Sep 6 1997, 12:00 am 
    Newsgroups: misc.consumers.frugal-living  From: Neil Koomen 
_neilkoo... at NOSPAMearthlink.net_ (mailto:neilkoo... at NOSPAMearthlink.net)   Date: 1997/09/06 
 Subject: Re: pottery barn-target connection?  

> And my friends and I  have called Target "tar-ZHAY" for a while (no, I'm  
not
> a teenager) --
> we also occasionally shop "Jacques  Pen-NAY"

Here, it's "Jean-Claude Pen-NAY!"
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    RWeidwall Sep 6 1997, 12:00 am  
    Newsgroups: misc.consumers.frugal-living  From: rweidw... at aol.com 
(RWeidwall)   Date: 1997/09/06  Subject: Re: pottery barn-target connection?  

In article <34103CF3.7... at NOSPAMearthlink.net>, Neil  Koomen
<neilkoo... at NOSPAMearthlink.net> writes:
>Note: I've read that  teenage girls call Target "tar-ZHAY," giving it
>sort  of a humorous pseudo-French pronunciation.

I've heard Marshalls,  the off-price store, referred to as "La Mar-SHALS."
R. Wallace

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    Kevin Schnitzius Sep 23 1992, 2:33 pm
    Newsgroups: talk.bizarre  From: kschn... at encore.com (Kevin Schnitzius)   
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1992 21:09:30 GMT  Local: Wed, Sep 23 1992 2:09 pm   
Subject: Re: supermarkets  

schni... at cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)  writes:
>i... at kiowa.scd.ucar.edu  (Ilana) writes:
>>(Of course, I usually say "King Stoopids," just as  the Martin Acres
>>subdivision has mutated into Martian Acres, and the  K-Mart clone Target is
>>often pronounced Tar-zhay.)
>   Taco Bell becomes Taco Hell
>     Albertson's becomes Albertscums
>       Niemann-Marcus becomes Needless Markup
>       Magic Market becomes Tragic Markup
>       The Foot Locker becomes The Foot Licker

Publix becomes  Pube Licks
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mr asynchronous               kschnitz... at encore.com
_Reply_ 
(http://groups-beta.google.com/group/talk.bizarre/post?inreplyto=78f59f78990a56e4)  

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    D. Glenn Arthur Jr. Sep 24 1992, 9:35 am  
    Newsgroups: talk.bizarre  From: g... at moeng2.morgan.edu (D. Glenn Arthur 
Jr.)   Date: 24 Sep 1992 16:58:55 -0500  Local: Thurs, Sep 24 1992 2:58 pm   
Subject: Re: supermarkets  

In article <schnitzi.717272... at eola.cs.ucf.edu> schni... at cs.ucf.edu writes:

>i... at kiowa.scd.ucar.edu  (Ilana) writes:
>>[...] "King Stoopids," [...] Martian Acres, [...] Tar-zhay.

> Taco Hell [...] Albertscums [...] Needless Markup [...] Tragic Markup

>  [...] The Foot Licker

... and there's Radio Snack, Burger Thing,  Hardly's, Boob's Big Boy,
the Honda Accodion, Toyauto, Volkswagon Bunny,  MacDeath, Densley's,
Macintoy, Amoeba, MS-LOSS, and so on.
Of course, I keep thinking that all those are _normal_ things
to say until  someone reacts to them.
So far the biggest reaction-getter is "Gnu Hampster Avenue" for
New  Hampshire Ave.
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D. Glenn Arthur Jr., The Human Vibrator, g... at bessel.umd.edu
"Being  a _man_ means knowing that one has a choice not to act like a 'man'."
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