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dino said:
I remember chatting to a friend of mine in the Beaverton, Oregon area on the phone. I met him online, and we became friends through a shared love of a web comic. The first time I called him on the phone to chat (because I was tired, and not in the mood for typing on the instant messenger), he dropped the word "spendy" on me. The neat thing about it is that I didn't even notice it, delete duplicates because the second he said it, I knew exactly what he was talking about. It's not until years later, when I heard this episode, that it struck me that nobody else in my life used that word except other Portalnders.
EDIT: I absolutely love "New-Coked". Again, it's one of those terms, that when you say it, everyone around you instantly gets it. Oopsgraded had me giggling my diet coke into my nasal passages on the subway. Not a comfortable moment.
RE: Geek vs Nerd. From my perspective, a geek is generally one who's more on the technical side, and sort of single-minded in her or his love for whatever the subject may be. A nerd, on the other hand, just likes learning new things, regardless of the venue. I'd say it's a generalist versus specialist sort of thing. Nerds love knowledge for its own sake; geeks love knowledge about their subject, and/or range of subjects (there's some kind of unholy trinity of Ren Faire, D&D, and a love for pictures of cats), to the exclusion of other knowledge. I'm only speaking from my own understanding of it.
PS I'm a nerd.
Well I Know That But For The Satisfaction I Saw The Posts!!!!
My grandmother and mother told me that the stuff in my eyes in the morning was called "sleepy seeds." It was planted there by the sandman to make sure I had a good sleep throughout the night. I remember watching from the window, scared of this little imp who would come to put dirt in my eyes while I dozed!
Yeah, I'd bet that butterfly is a bit spooky to some young kids. And what about the "mixed message" of the main drug ad content showing happy people being helped by the med, while some narrator (in ominous undertones) explains all the risks and bad side effects? We adults know that's something the FDA and/or FTC forces the advertisers to do. But I gotta wonder what kinda message that sends to a young kid?
It's a whole nuther level from the "professional driver closed course" fine print that flashes on the bottom of the screen during car ads. Most people never see the disclaimer because the ad itself is so cleverly distracting. And when you DO see it, without a DVR to hit pause, there's no frikkin' way you have time to read all that fine print, which isn't even legible unless you have about a 60" screen.
Heimhenge said
I've been an Arizonan since 1978, and first heard the term "Zonie" or "Zony" (not sure if there is an official spelling) used in a derogatory sense by Californians (are they "Fornies") for exactly that reason.
Never heard of Fornies, but only Californios and Californicators.
About 1972 or 1973, there was a tongue-in-cheek movement to build a tall fence along the Toledo Strip, because so many Ohio high school football heroes were attending college in Ann Arbor. I was commuting from Ohio to Indiana at the time, and around the break table, as we were discussing the "issue" I pointed out that Michigan's beloved football coach. Bo Shembechler, come from Ohio State, but so did Indiana's favorite basketball coach, Bobby Knight. I was quickly informed that "buckeye" was defined in the dictionary as a nut of no known use.
I just realized that, to me, wiping sleep from your eyes means getting rid of the stuff while it is a thick fluid, and if the stuff has solidified, it's shameful that you didn't attend to your toilet while going to the bathroom, and you don't need words for that which can never be talked about. I, for one, would never admit to "crumbles" in my eyes.
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