flying saucer and other critters

[Victor Steinbok]

On Judge Alex, AABiM complaining about someone's drinking:

"She's a saucer... a _flying_saucer_...", repeating "flying saucer" at
least four more times, then, later, when describing her drinking, "She's
a barbarian! She drinks a bottle a day!"

"Sauce", "Sauced" or "on the sauce" are well documented.

AABiF explaining her getting fired.

"I got _eighty-sixed_ out of the job [at a strip club]".

OED only has the verb referring to kicking *customers* out of a bar or
restaurant.

I'm not sure if either the race or the orientation is in any way related
to their vocabulary, but both "graduated" from the same group home for
LGBT minority youth. "Eighty-six" is food/entertainment service
industry-speak.


Different case:

Judge: "So what kind of bugs you had?"
Reply: "Big, black cockroaches" ... [] ... "_Smithsonian_ size."

     VS-)

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