[Ads-l] Trash Panda

[Jonathan Lighter]

How about "danger noodle"?

JL

On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Excellent work, Ben and Dave.
> The term "white trash panda" occurred on twitter in 2011. One tweet
> includes #fb which suggests that the term was found on Facebook. The
> term "white trash panda" may have been clipped to yield "trash panda"
> although this does shift the meaning.
>
> https://x.com/MaxfieldBlue/status/81778807081664513
> [Begin tweet info]
> MaxfieldBlue @MaxfieldBlue
> Raccoons are just white trash pandas. #fb
> 1:42 PM · Jun 17, 2011
> [End tweet info]
>
> https://x.com/browngt5/status/81777116970102784
> [Begin tweet info]
> Taylor Brown @browngt5
> RT @beatpunk: @browngt5 RT @heyitsurban Raccoons are just white trash
> pandas.
> 1:35 PM · Jun 17, 2011
> [End tweet info]
>
> Garson
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Way back in 2016, Dave Wilton brought up "trash panda," a facetious term
> > for "raccoon" that's still popular, with an active subreddit,
> > https://www.reddit.com/r/trashpandas/ . Dave dated the term to 2015,
> but it
> > first popped up on Reddit a year before that.
> >
> > ---
> > Carl Peligro, Jan. 13, 2014, /r/aww
> > raccoons = trash pandas
> >
> https://web.archive.org/web/20200317183940/https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/1v382q/raccoon_in_a_suit/ceockdk/
> >
> > ---
> >
> > This early use was mentioned in a Business Insider article from Sept.
> 2015.
> >
> >
> https://www.businessinsider.com/trash-panda-subreddit-raccoon-pictures-2015-9
> >
> https://web.archive.org/web/20150930171423/http://www.techinsider.io/trash-panda-subreddit-raccoon-pictures-2015-9
> >
> > --bgz
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 10:27 AM Dave Wilton <dave at wilton.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > "Trash panda" as a term for raccoon.
> > >
> > > It seems to have arisen in 2015. Urban Dictionary has an entry dated 26
> > > July 2015. My Facebook feed is overrun with the term. (The creatures
> are
> > > major pest here in Toronto.) And there's at least one Reddit feed
> > > devoted to videos and images of "cute" trash pandas.
> > >
> > > I've found a couple of ambiguous references from earlier. One is a
> Saint
> > > John, New Brunswick music group "Trash Panda & and The Plywood Carousel
> > > Rejects" (Telegraph-Journal, 30 Jan 2007).
> > >
> > > The other is the from Michael Shilling's 2009 novel "Rock Bottom": "The
> > > box was impaled on her heel. She shook her foot, but it wouldn't come
> > > off, hanging there like a little baby trash panda." There's no further
> > > elaboration of the term, so it's not clear if it refers specifically to
> > > raccoons or just to a supposed panda characteristic to cling to things.
> > >
> > >
> > > --Dave Wilton
> > >    Department of English, University of Toronto
> > >    dave.wilton at utoronto.ca / dave at wilton.net
> > >
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