Comments on: I reject your reality!

By: Igor the Vigorous

Igor the Vigorous — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:55:57 +0000

Or maybe he got it from a Terry Pratchett book.
-Cough-
Doesn’t have to be original to be funny.

By: General58

General58 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:49:04 +0000

This isn’t original, you either got this from a t-shirt or “Mythbusters”

By: SPCOsborne

SPCOsborne — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:01:03 +0000

is it me or does it looks like a D&D reference with that caption? Roll to disbelieve anyone?

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:36:56 +0000

I don’t fish much, but I hear in NZ, any trout less than two pounds is considered too small to keep. There’s an incentive to go fishing!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:00:24 +0000

Here’s a few reasons. Your name has 1337 in it.
I think it’s because this picture looks like he’s in a debate, interrupting someone mid point, and saying “Hold on a moment- let me just add that..” and inserting something of his own.

By: jackie31337

jackie31337 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:46:16 +0000

Aw man, I submitted the same LOL on a different picture. Guess you’re better at marketing your LOLs than I am.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:06:50 +0000

And yet, we still won’t hold that against you..

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:05:29 +0000

I had heard that explanation before.. still, we always said ‘catch a tiger by the toe’. My parents would have beat us senseless had we said the other.

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:03:43 +0000

HEY!!! *is from Indiana*

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:02:48 +0000

DT is like a font of odd facts. I love odd facts.

By: pattycakes

pattycakes — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:34:08 +0000

mythbusters FTW

By: Scythelord

Scythelord — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:53:06 +0000

Nothing rigged about the Bush elections. Sorry. The others just sucked.

By: Outback Jon

Outback Jon — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:52:57 +0000

Isn’t it “afro-engineering” now?

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:04:36 +0000

I prefer rama-lama-ding-dong..

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:02:25 +0000

You can appreciate this one, Diss.. we called it jury-rigging.. I had heard the other, but never used it.

By: Eric-in-STL

Eric-in-STL — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:54:26 +0000

Uh, heh. In St. Louis we often call rednecks “hoosiers,” which is nothing at all against people from the great state of Indiana, but we’ll call something “hoosier-rigged.”

By: Eric-in-STL

Eric-in-STL — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:45:05 +0000

*shudders*

By: lowly grunt

lowly grunt — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:21:33 +0000

Mel! [link]

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:29:58 +0000

Deep, that’s the weirdest, coolest thing I’ve ever heard.

By: azalea

azalea — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:26:08 +0000

There’s one good thing to come out of all this: everyone now knows how to pronounce “Ahmedinejad.”

By: viking gal

viking gal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:20:32 +0000

I’ve heard of that as jury-rigging, or ‘good enough for government work’.

By: viking gal

viking gal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:17:26 +0000

I’m from the east coast, and never heard of it before. It was called ringing the doorbell and running like hell out here!

By: viking gal

viking gal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:13:28 +0000

Thanks Dhoti. Now I have the visuals from the ‘shuga lumps’ video in my head. Ewwww!

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:13:28 +0000

@Dhoti: Lol…awesome! 8)

By: Deep Thought

Deep Thought — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:12:25 +0000

You got it. FYI:

It’s Scottish and very old.
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Eeny meeny miney mo

Inimicus animo is Latin for “enemy of the soul”.

Catch the nigg@r by the toe

“The nigg@r” is really a reference to the devil. (Variants actually saying “the devil” are known.)

If he hollers let him go

If you grab his toe and he protests, he’s human, and you should let him go. The devil has a cloven hoof which will not feel pain if pinched.

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:09:18 +0000

@MG – see, that’s similar to what happened to Dave Chapelle!

Link.

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:07:13 +0000

Sexist bastards, the lot of them.

By: the_original_shortright

the_original_shortright — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:54:51 +0000

*removes hat and places it over heart*
in honor of the dearly departed.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:54:47 +0000

The only term from that time that I haven’t found a good substitute for is n-rigging. (Meaning to patch together a repair from what items are available). Heard the brazil nut thing from my mom (explaining why her older relatives could be embarrassing!), she grew up in VA in the 40′s/50s.

By: Dhoti

Dhoti — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:52:16 +0000

Dammit, now you people have “Sugar Lumps” stuck in my head.

By: AC

AC — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:50:58 +0000

Really? It makes sense why we said “tigger” not “tiger” now…

By: Captain Wow

Captain Wow — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:48:00 +0000

Thanks! Everyone assumes I’m a dude, so hopefully this ends confusion

By: Deep Thought

Deep Thought — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:46:30 +0000

Nah. Just givin’ ya crap, dissim.
We didn’t know it was racist when I was a kid. We also called brazil nuts nigg@r toes. And said “eenie meenie miney mo. Catch a nigg@r by the toe.” And sang “not last night but the night before… 24 nigg@rs came knocking…”

I really don’t have a problem saying “I used to be too uneducated to know better.” It’s easier for me than “well I NEVER…”

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:41:30 +0000

Honestly, DT, because #1, I really thought it would be regional; #2, I hadn’t heard it in years; and #3, it just never occurred to me that PM would be more familiar with that term than “ding-dong-dash”!

Hey, I was raised that only trashy people used that word (and yes, this was in the south, in the 60s and 70s…)

By: Deep Thought

Deep Thought — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:37:43 +0000

Why not?
I know lawyers lie, but revising history is a hanging offense.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:22:31 +0000

Yeah, please, not the table. We eat there, guys.

By: Eric-in-STL

Eric-in-STL — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:21:56 +0000

In bed?
(What? It’s homage.)

By: Eric-in-STL

Eric-in-STL — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:21:08 +0000

No. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT lay them out on the table. Thank you.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:13:22 +0000

Speaking of which, my wife and I are planning a trip to New Zealand later this year. I’m looking forward to visiting some of the places you see in LOTR (at least flying over them). I’ve never been to NZ, but I hear it’s spectacular.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:12:58 +0000

It IS lovely there, AC. Absolutely gorgeous place. (People to people took me to NZ too) Plus, the Maoris are unbelievably awesome.

By: AC

AC — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:10:12 +0000

I love watching that on film with the mountains and valleys and whatnot… It looks lovely…

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:05:17 +0000

… Eddie, you are a genius.
An absolute genius.
It’s like the pyres they lit across Gondor to summon Rohan! (sorry for the LOTR reference- I can’t help myself sometimes. )

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:02:03 +0000

I’m thinking they are both members of Troll Nation and they have some secret code. When one posts a comment, they include the ‘code’, which then calls out to the other citizens. Hence, we get revisited *Again*.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:58:12 +0000

Agreed. Why the hell did he have to bring American Soldiers into it *again*? he should know that’s the word that summons his predecessor, the ultimate PK caretroll.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:54:13 +0000

Oh, that one gets my vote!

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:52:38 +0000

Ding-dong-ditch has always been my term of choice for that, as well. Snappy, alliterative, and, um, NOT racist! 8)

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:51:25 +0000

Amen!

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:50:00 +0000

Hell, I’m as old as dirt (or nearly so) and that’s what we called it..

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:47:58 +0000

Dhoti, PM….why don’t you guys just lay ‘em out on a table and we’ll measure and settle this once and for all?

Seriously, I like you both & just wish you’d either try to get along or ignore each other. [/peacekeeping effort probably about as effective as most stuff the UN does....]

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:32:13 +0000

Dear god…. a peacekeeping effort gone wrong: Drama in PK!