boogie vs. booger - RE: "Adult Swim"

[Tom Zurinskas]

If, as you say, you pick a boogie from your nose, do you booger the night away on the dance floor?

I feel that if it's not or is snot, it is what it is snot or not.  For one who knows snot but knows not what's not snot knows not snot at all.  So the difference between boogie and booger is snot as it appears.


Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
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> "Boogie" was the only mucus-related term my grandmother used.
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> It goes without saying that pot-related "doober" is in HDAS from 1973.
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> Oddly, however, it is also listed as "a piece of excrement."
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> > On Jan 1, 2013, at 10:56 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > > "doober" in place of "doobie"
> > > spark up a doober
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> > > but
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> > > "boogie" in place of "booger"
> > > a boogie in my nose
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> > Law of Conservation of Suffixes? Actually, "boogie" was the the standard
> > local term when I was growing up. I'm not familiar with "doober" for
> > "doobie", but it strikes me as a plausible affectionate diminutive, maybe
> > related to the -er used for guy-to-guy nicknames (at least in buddy movies).
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> > LH
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