Bad Girls Ride Again

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sat Nov 6 14:39:20 UTC 2010


At 11/6/2010 09:24 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>This week's crop of the new and the hard-to-Google. And did I mention that
>several of the Girls are Faustian illeists?::
>
>"That is SO random f*****g bulls**t!"   [It's senseless; "so" is an
>odd substitute for "such"; syntactical blending?]

Is this "SO" = an intensifier, "extremely"?

>...
>"I'm really butt-hurt that somebody in the house would touch something of
>mine."  [Emotionally hurt.]

Men are supposed to have their emotions in their p***ks; where does
the above put women's emotions?

Joel

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