[Ads-l] Slang: danger noodle = snake (was Re: Trash Panda)

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> How about "danger noodle"?

There is no entry for "danger noodle" on barrypopik.com.
There is no entry for "danger noodle" in the Random House Historical
Dictionary of American Slang under "danger" or "noodle"
There is no entry for "danger noodle" in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
at greensdictofslang.com

Searching xtwitter for "danger noodle" is tricky. See further below
for a discussion.

The following tweet was ambiguous because the referent was not well defined.

https://x.com/ZaqaryAdams/status/302425402897481728
Twitter name and handle: Zach Adams @ZaqaryAdams
Timestamp: 9:33 AM · Feb 15, 2013
[Begin message]
Danger Noodle is here. Ugh ohhhhh
[End message]

The following tweet was unambiguous because it included a picture of a snake.

https://x.com/goobstbh/status/549656845259120640
Twitter name and handle: the debil is making me cuss @goobstbh
Timestamp: 3:02 PM · Dec 29, 2014
[Begin message]
Danger Noodle is having fun :)
[End message]

The following tweet was also unambiguous.

https://x.com/alentubolsillo/status/569334789129400322
Twitter name and handle: Ale @alentubolsillo
Timestamp: 10:16 PM · Feb 21, 2015
[Begin message]
I'm looking at pet snakes and apparently someone named their pet snake
Danger Noodle.
[End message]

Search is difficult because the xtwitter search engine sometimes shows
only a subset of matches.

Also, the xtwitter search engine shows messages when the tweet name
includes the phrase "danger noodle". But a tweet name can be changed
many years after an xtweet is broadcast.

Background information A user of xtwitter is identified by an xtwitter
handle and an xtwitter name.
Example:
"@poeticserpent" is the xtwitter handle
"Original Danger Noodle" is the xtwitter name

Garson

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