noodleback

[paul johnson]

Paul johnson

     I've never heard "noodlepants" but I know I sure don't want to be
called that in public, or for that, in private!

On 4/2/2011 6:01 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> Victor, you're thinking of "noodlepants."
>
> (I thought I made that up just now; then I found 13,000 raw Googlits.)
>
> JL
>
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Garson O'Toole<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> There are some instances of a similar trope "noodle spine" starting in
>> 1999 (or earlier). The 2010 instance refers to a person as a
>> noodle-spine. The 1999 instance uses the phrase "noodle spine types".
>> Some examples refer to the physical spine. The connotative
>> implications for the character of an individual with a "noodle spine"
>> vary. The 2008 example seems to be only about a physical condition:
>>
>> Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
>> From: "D. Perry"
>> Date: 1999/02/20
>> Subject: Re: Message from Ruger
>> It is a sad commentary on today's society with the NICS but with
>> Feinstein, Schumer and all the other noodle spine types that don't
>> care about freedom, ...
>>
>> Here are some unverified examples in Google Books:
>>
>> How to Lasso a Cowboy
>> Jodi Thomas, Patricia Potter, Emily Carmichael - 2004 - 378 pages -
>> Google eBook - Preview
>> On his fifteenth birthday he'd up and left. Colin had been both
>> furious and embarrassed that his only son "had a limp noodle spine."
>>
>> Athena Force: Books 1-6 - Page 211
>> Justine Davis - 2006 - Google eBook - Preview
>> Bravado starched up the man's noodle spine now that the shock had worn off.
>>
>> Stability, Sport, and Performance Movement: Great Technique ... - Page 273
>> Joanne Elphinston - 2008 - 351 pages - Preview
>> The difference in feeling between a neutral (arrow) spine and an
>> unstable (noodle) spine.
>>
>> King of Sword and Sky
>> C. L. Wilson - 2010 - 480 pages - Google eBook - Preview
>> Honestly, Lillis could be such a noodle-spine. 滴e's been here all
>> week, and all the guards wave at him when he walks by.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Jonathan Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Subject:      noodleback
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>>> 2011
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>> http://personals.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2011/03/tea-party-rails-against-budget-deal
>>> (March
>>> 31):
>>> But at the [Tea Party] rally, GOP leaders were in the crosshairs.
>> Katherine
>>> Dirr, an activist from Boehner's district, told the crowd: "I say to the
>>> Republican leadership -- take off your lace panties, stop being
>> noodlebacks.
>>> Our republic depends on you."
>>>
>>> JL
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