Grant shares some odd high school team mascot names, including the Wooden Shoes and the Battling Bathers. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “High School Mascot Names” Here’s some emails about school mascots. If...
Bobo, mentioned in an earlier discussion of UNC-Chapel Hill slang for something crummy or inferior, drew memories from around the country. Some people remembered bobos in the late 1970s and early 1980s as cheap or off-brand shoes, with a schoolyard...
shoe-icide attack
n.— «Shoe-icide Attack…Bush ducks as Iraqi flings size 10s at head.» —Daily News Dec. 15, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Slap, slap, slap, slap– the sound of flip-flops on your feet. These floppy-soled shoes go by other names like zoris and thongs, but a caller wonders why in some parts of the country they’re called go-aheads. This is part of a complete...
flow n.— «These days, Mr. Macintosh is on “flow” from Etnies, meaning he receives shoes for free, in an informal sponsorship that is one of the ways companies support and nurture skateboarders, and, yes, advertise their brand...
shoe-shining n.— «When the only target of Tier 4 was tape, the focus was on delivering the data to that tape drive as fast as possible. Tape drives themselves have been plenty fast enough for years now, they’re just not very forgiving if...