New slang?

[Wilson Gray]

Come on, Jon! Give me some slack! :-) Okay, let's go with, "... making
the chick come a googob of times."

I see that HDAS has "googobs" as a plural from only 1972. "A googob
of" is what I'd term the "traditional" form. That is, I've known "a
googob of" as long as I've known English - since the late '30's - and
everywhere that I've ever lived, people of my degree of maturity know
only the long form and none of us has any idea when he first heard it.

I once suggested to a group of white people that "googob" might have
affected the development of "googol." After being tarred and feathered
and ridden out of town on a rail, I've since been somewhat circumspect
WRT publicly proposing that theory.

Note that the above is offered merely an anecdote and is not a
suggestion, let alone an assertion, that there may be an etymological
connection between "googob" and "googol."

-Wilson

On 10/22/05, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> "Engendering multiple organisms" :  whoa ! somethin' alien goin' on here !
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> JL
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> Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> That was sort of my point. I heard the term in a context in which it
> clearly meant, "burn rubber" or whatever term has come into use since
> the '50's.
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> Googlling, if not personal experience, teaches us that the standard,
> as it were, meaning is aviation jargon that has to do with
> heavily-laden airplanes and not with burning rubber while peeling away
> from the curb, which latter meaning apears to be new.
>
> FWIW, "take off heavy" appears to have the same basic structure as
> "pee down heavy," a BE guy-talk term that means, roughly, "spend the
> night fucking and engendering multiple organisms in one's partner."
>
> -Wilson
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> On 10/21/05, Mullins, Bill wrote:
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> > Isn't this an aviation term meaning "take off with a full fuel load"?
> >
> > Flying with Joint Stars over Iraq
> > By David A. Fulghum
> > 05/15/2005 02:25:30 PM Aviation Week and Space Technology
> >
> > "Crews would like 20-25% more thrust and a higher cool-air bypass ratio
> > so they can take off heavier (with more fuel) or operate from shorter
> > runways, deliver 14-18% more fuel efficiency and fly higher."
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Wilson Gray
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> > > From today's "Judge Greg Mathis" show: "I heard him _take off heavy_."
> > >
> > > "Take off heavy" appareently can mean, judging from context,
> > > "Floor it hard and drive away noisily, over-revving the
> > > engine and burning rubber" in San Francisco.
> > >
> > > 55,100,000 hits in Google reducible to 280, but not wth this meaning.
> > >
> > > -Wilson Gray
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> -Wilson Gray
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-Wilson Gray