Veep

[Laurence Horn]

I kind of liked this exchange from the "salad-spinner of fuck" episode below, although it doesn't introduce any WOTY candidates (unless we introduce a "most creative simile" category):

Vice President:   “Dan, did your boyfriend know anything about this?”

Dan:                 “I was trying to use Jonah [a fructose-intolerance staffer for the President] for intelligence.”

Vice President:  “That’s like trying to use a croissant as a fuckin’ dildo…It doesn’t do the job and it makes a fuckin’ mess.


LH

On Jun 5, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Sunday:
> 
> "I can still bust some moves in this town." (Do things of interest or
> importance; take action.)
> 
> "Easy, doughboy!  Hands off the soup!" (Chef; cook.)
> 
> "She's gonna go apeshit menstrual over this."  (Become very angry.)
> 
> "I get back acne. Bacne."
> 
> "I'd rather be a pig than an ass monkey up on his high horse."  (Buffoon.)
> 
> JL
> 
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Subject:      Re: Veep
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>> This week:
>> 
>> "We're gonna pregnancy-test you to fuck!"
>> 
>> "Maybe I'll name him after you. I'll call him 'Fuckweasel.'"
>> 
>> "Holy shitballs!"
>> 
>> JL
>> 
>> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
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>>> Last night:
>>> 
>>> "There's this extreme metal band playing over at Labyrinths tonight. Just
>>> real fucked-up noise! They don't even have a name! Want to check it out?"
>>> (Delightfully unconventional, "outrageous" noise.)
>>> 
>>> "You upstate New York dickshit!" (Sic: not "dipshit.")
>>> 
>>> "You have just put this entire office into a salad-spinner of fuck!"
>>> (Trouble; 'shit.')
>>> 
>>> JL
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
>>>> wrote:
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>>>> Subject:      Re: Veep
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>>>> FWIW, that was my take too; this is, after all, how "underwhelm(ed)"
>>> (OED:
>>>> joc.) got started.
>>>> 
>>>> LH
>>>> 
>>>> On May 14, 2012, at 9:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Could be!
>>>>> 
>>>>> JL
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>> Poster:       "Baker, John" <JBAKER at STRADLEY.COM>
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>>>>>> I assume that "under the moon" is meant as a negation of "over the
>>>> moon,"
>>>>>> very happy or delighted; The Phrase Finder has a discussion at
>>>>>> http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/over-the-moon.html.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> John Baker
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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>>>>>> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
>>>> Behalf
>>>>>> Of Jonathan Lighter
>>>>>> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 6:02 PM
>>>>>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Veep
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Last night:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "Shall I fire up the shit-eater?" (Paper-shredder.)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "He's busting my fucking lady-balls."
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "You gotta network to get work."
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "I let the whale hang loose." (Penis.)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I listened to the following exchange five times, and all I can hear
>> is
>>>>>> "under the moon," which makes no sense to me:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> SELINA: I thought you were going to give me shit about filibuster
>>>> reform.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> JONAH: Oh, well, the White House is very much under the moon about
>>> that.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Quotable quip [Selina's being warned not to make a deal with a
>>> xenophobe
>>>>>> senator]: "When you go down that dark country road, the lights go
>> out
>>>> and
>>>>>> the scarecrows come alive."
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> JL
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
>>>> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
>>>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>> Yeah, I heard "what's-his-face" years before "what's-his-ass."
>> Also
>>> in
>>>>>>> 1975, "what's-his-fuck."
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Besides "what's-his-name," my grandfather also used "whozis."  For
>> an
>>>>>>> inanimate object, of course, he used "whatsis."
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> JL
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Subject:      Re: Veep
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>>>>>>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
>>>>>> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> "What the F-word is going on?" ("What the eff is going on?")
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> In an episode of The Family Guy, Huck Griffin addresses himself to
>>>>>>>> "N-word Jim," after getting yelled at by Jim for first addressing
>>> him
>>>>>>>> as, well, "N-word Jim."
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> "What's-his-ass said so." =C2 ("What's-his-name." =C2 I heard
>> this
>>> in
>>>>>>> 1=
>>>>>>> 975.)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> ("What's-his-face." I heard this in 1960, popularized by the same
>> EM
>>>>>>>> who also introduced "How ADJ is that?!" and other catch-phrases.)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> -Wilson
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