Veep

[Jonathan Lighter]

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.')
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> 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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> > 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>
> > >> 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.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> John Baker
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> -----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
> > >>
> > >> 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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> > >>> 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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> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>
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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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