Veep

[Jonathan Lighter]

Could be!

JL

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:

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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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> Last night:
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> "Shall I fire up the shit-eater?" (Paper-shredder.)
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> "He's busting my fucking lady-balls."
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> "You gotta network to get work."
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> "I let the whale hang loose." (Penis.)
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> 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.
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> JONAH: Oh, well, the White House is very much under the moon about that.
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> 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."
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> 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?")
> > > >
> > > 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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