Veep
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jun 12 18:33:47 UTC 2012
Hot off the screen:
"We just have to tweak the tear nipple." [Knob; dial.]
"My pahpaw always used to say, 'It's always darkest before the storm.'"
[Grandfather; not in OED.]
"Apologies, ma'am: F'd in the B-hole across all networks." [I.e., the
A-hole.]
"The Midas touch from Jenny Shitfinger." [Loathsome person; see
Urbandictionary.com - or better not.]
"This kind of backseat, fingerfucking insider bullshit." [Unacknowledged,
manipulative insider bullshit.]
"She seems nice." ["She" used derisively for a man (with gratuitous and
contemptuous imputation of homosexuality).]
"The weather's completely schizophrenic." [Inconsistent; unpredictable.]
"She's about as welcome as a turd in a hot tub." ["In a punch-bowl" is the
version I know.]
"She's kind of toxic at the box office." [Harmfully off-putting.]
"[If a Congressional investigating committee believes you're lying or
culpable while testifying] you'll get what we call 'corpse-fucking.'"
"Corpse-fucking?!" "Where they take your mortal remains and have as much
fun with it [sic] as they can."
"She can charm all the mouth-breathers." [Gaping idiots.]
>From an earlier episode:
"A total potal meltdown." [A rage by POTUS.]
JL
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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> 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: =93Dan, did your boyfriend know anything about this?=94
>
> Dan: =93I was trying to use Jonah [a =
> fructose-intolerance staffer for the President] for intelligence.=94
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> Vice President: =93That=92s like trying to use a croissant as a fuckin=92=
> dildo=85It doesn=92t do the job and it makes a fuckin=92 mess.
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>
> LH
>
> On Jun 5, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > Sunday:
> >=20
> > "I can still bust some moves in this town." (Do things of interest or
> > importance; take action.)
> >=20
> > "Easy, doughboy! Hands off the soup!" (Chef; cook.)
> >=20
> > "She's gonna go apeshit menstrual over this." (Become very angry.)
> >=20
> > "I get back acne. Bacne."
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> > "I'd rather be a pig than an ass monkey up on his high horse." =
> (Buffoon.)
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> > JL
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> > 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:
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> >> "We're gonna pregnancy-test you to fuck!"
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> >> "Maybe I'll name him after you. I'll call him 'Fuckweasel.'"
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> >> "Holy shitballs!"
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> >> JL
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> >> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Jonathan Lighter =
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> >>> wrote:
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> >>> Subject: Re: Veep
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> >>> Last night:
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> >>> "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.)
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> >>> "You upstate New York dickshit!" (Sic: not "dipshit.")
> >>>=20
> >>> "You have just put this entire office into a salad-spinner of fuck!"
> >>> (Trouble; 'shit.')
> >>>=20
> >>> JL
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> >>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Laurence Horn =
> <laurence.horn at yale.edu
> >>>> wrote:
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> >>>> Poster: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> >>>> Subject: Re: Veep
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> >>>> FWIW, that was my take too; this is, after all, how =
> "underwhelm(ed)"
> >>> (OED:
> >>>> joc.) got started.
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> >>>> LH
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> >>>> On May 14, 2012, at 9:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> >>>>> Could be!
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> >>>>> JL
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> >>>>> 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>
> >>>>>> Subject: Re: Veep
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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.
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> >>>>>> John Baker
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> >>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>>> 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
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> >>>>>> Last night:
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> >>>>>> "Shall I fire up the shit-eater?" (Paper-shredder.)
> >>>>>>=20
> >>>>>> "He's busting my fucking lady-balls."
> >>>>>>=20
> >>>>>> "You gotta network to get work."
> >>>>>>=20
> >>>>>> "I let the whale hang loose." (Penis.)
> >>>>>>=20
> >>>>>> I listened to the following exchange five times, and all I can =
> hear
> >> is
> >>>>>> "under the moon," which makes no sense to me:
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> >>>>>> SELINA: I thought you were going to give me shit about filibuster
> >>>> reform.
> >>>>>>=20
> >>>>>> JONAH: Oh, well, the White House is very much under the moon =
> about
> >>> that.
> >>>>>>=20
> >>>>>> 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."
> >>>>>>=20
> >>>>>> JL
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> >>>>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
> >>>> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> >>>>>>> wrote:
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> >>>>>>> Yeah, I heard "what's-his-face" years before "what's-his-ass."
> >> Also
> >>> in
> >>>>>>> 1975, "what's-his-fuck."
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> >>>>>>> Besides "what's-his-name," my grandfather also used "whozis." =
> For
> >> an
> >>>>>>> inanimate object, of course, he used "whatsis."
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> >>>>>>> JL
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> >>>>>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
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> >>>>>>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
> >>>>>> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> >>>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> "What the F-word is going on?" ("What the eff is going on?")
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> >>>>>>>> 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."
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> >>>>>>>>> "What's-his-ass said so." =3DC2 ("What's-his-name." =3DC2 I =
> heard
> >> this
> >>> in
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> >>>>>>> 975.)
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> >>>>>>>> ("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.)
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