Still More Bad Girl Talk

[Jonathan Lighter]

I used to watch Jerry's show quite a bit for its insights into the _vox et
mens populi_.  Got a number of excellent cites for HDAS.

I haven't watched in several years. Everybody I know but me believes the
guests are actors and fakes.

Everybody, that is, but my forensic psychologist buddy. Based on his
clinical experience, he's sure that almost all of 'em are on the level.

JL

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > And more. Unfortunately there may be only one more episode this season.
> >
> > "My gaydar is up, and it's never wrong, and _you're_ a lesbian!" Â (Said
> by a
> > lesbian.)
> >
> > "The realest girls in this house are me and Erica." Â (Extremely common
> for
> > decades, but hard to place in the OED schema. Cf. 11a  "Sincere,
> > straightforward, honest. Obs." but with nothing since 1705. Â My def.,
> for
> > what it's worth, might be "(Of persons) free of pretension or affectation
> > and candidly sincere in social relationships." Â That's very close to 11c
> > "Free from nonsense, affectation, or pretence; genuine. Also more
> generally:
> > aware of, or in touch with, real life; down-to-earth," but I sense a
> > difference, if only because the word - again as applied to persons - has
> > been so common since the '60s. Â However, if you ask "So what?" Â I'm not
> sure
> > I have a good comeback.)
> >
> > "We're obviously the top dogs. Don't breathe my air. Don't be anywhere
> near
> > me." Â (Many thousands of RGs for "Don't breathe my air!" perhaps no
> earlier
> > than 2005.)
> >
> > "Christina's stupid ass was just swingin' at Leah's balls!" ("Ass" and
> > "balls" are merely emphatic forms; see HDAS. Christina tried repeatedly
> to
> > strike Leah. Said by lesbian.)
> >
> > "I have a *huge* set of balls." (A store of self-assurance. Said by
> > lesbian.)
> >
> > "I'm excited, dog!" (Female to female; HDAS stupidly restricts this use
> of
> > "dog" to masculine address.)
> >
> > When the Bad Girls aren't going out to night clubs to get laid, or, on
> > occasion, laying each other, they worry a good deal about who's "weak"
> (see
> > last installment) and who's "mentally strong." Â Each seems to think
> she's
> > "mentally strong," but the others usually think she's "weak." The
> > "strong" torment and try to drive out the "weak." It usually works. In
> > general outline, the show is probably as scripted as any WWE match, but I
> > like to think individual affect and presentations of self are genuine.
> >
> > JL
> >
>
> Jon, you're only one step removed - Jersey Shore - From The Jerry Springer
> Show.
>
> A word to the wise.
>
> In my case, it was the now-defunct Jenny Jones Show that was my first
> bite of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
> --
> -Wilson
> –––
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> –Mark Twain
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