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There's a local radio ad for Horizon Air with
Patrick Warburton and Richard Kind that goes
something like this...
*Thump*
Warburton: Ow! Why did you hit me I'm driving!
Kind: I thought we'd play a little game to help pass
the time, it's called Slug Bug, we used to play it
when we were kids riding in the car, when you
see a beetle you just...
Warburton: There's one.
*Thump*
Kind: Hey, that's the same one!
Warburton: I've got another game to pass the time
it's called Slap Sign. Every time you see a sign...
There's one...
*Slap*
Warburton: Another ...
*Slap*
Warburton: And a bug...
*Thump*
Warburton: Hey, I'm beginning to enjoy this already.
Kind: Why are you hitting me! That hurts!
Warburton: What? The game was your idea.
(wouldn't you rather be flying, etc)
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> I have never heard of such game in France either. One thing I've noticed
> about foreign cultural references is that those related to children's
> games (and generally children's cultures) are usually the hardest to
> figure out, even for people familiar to the mainstream culture. It's quite
> easy to figure out references about grown-up activities, but children's
> cultures remain largely undocumented and quite puzzling for non-native
> people when they're mentioned in popular media.
Yeh, I'd never heard of this game until I was in the car with my sister and
her boyfriend. They were playing this game but for the new Mini, not the
bug. I don't know where they got it from.
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47cfca31$1@news.povray.org...
> Yeh, I'd never heard of this game until I was in the car with my sister
> and her boyfriend. They were playing this game but for the new Mini, not
> the bug. I don't know where they got it from.
I was recently surprised to hear small kids <5 year old) use certain
"gross/funny" words that were already popular with small kids 40 years ago.
Since these words are only used by kids, you won't find them in books and
parents/teachers are unlikely to use them. One can only guess that each
generation of kids n pass them on to generation n+1. That's a 100% oral
tradition, flying below the parental and academic radars and disconnected
from the mainstream cultural environment. It's pretty amazing actually.
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Gilles Tran wrote:
> I was recently surprised to hear small kids <5 year old) use certain
> "gross/funny" words that were already popular with small kids 40 years ago.
> Since these words are only used by kids, you won't find them in books and
> parents/teachers are unlikely to use them. One can only guess that each
> generation of kids n pass them on to generation n+1. That's a 100% oral
> tradition, flying below the parental and academic radars and disconnected
> from the mainstream cultural environment. It's pretty amazing actually.
The boarding school I went to had roughly 40 students. We virtually had
our own friggin' LANGUAGE!
And it only took 1 person to discover or invent a new word and that
language was permanently changed. Like, within weeks.
One day, somebody discovered a word we'd never heard of called
"blatent". The dictionary definition he looked up suggested that it
basically means "lots". (Which I now comprehend is *not* exactly
correct.) For the next 6 months or so, it was blatent-this and
blatent-that. Like, "OMG, dude, that girl is *blatently* hot!"
God damnit we were bored stupid...
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> One day, somebody discovered a word we'd never heard of called "blatent".
> The dictionary definition he looked up suggested that it basically means
> "lots". (Which I now comprehend is *not* exactly correct.) For the next 6
> months or so, it was blatent-this and blatent-that. Like, "OMG, dude, that
> girl is *blatently* hot!"
>
> God damnit we were bored stupid...
Same thing happens once you grow up too. I notice lots of people using
"basically" and "at the end of the day" way too often... Not to mention the
fact that me, my girlfriend, my sister, and her boyfriend all spoke to each
other like Borat for a few months after we saw the film.
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>> God damnit we were bored stupid...
>
> Same thing happens once you grow up too. I notice lots of people using
> "basically" and "at the end of the day" way too often... Not to mention
> the fact that me, my girlfriend, my sister, and her boyfriend all spoke
> to each other like Borat for a few months after we saw the film.
Hmm, interesting.
Maybe I don't experience this quite so much because I don't have any
friends and don't talk to anybody?
Oh, wait. You're all ham touchers...
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scott wrote:
>> One day, somebody discovered a word we'd never heard of called
>> "blatent". The dictionary definition he looked up suggested that it
>> basically means "lots". (Which I now comprehend is *not* exactly
>> correct.) For the next 6 months or so, it was blatent-this and
>> blatent-that. Like, "OMG, dude, that girl is *blatently* hot!"
>>
>> God damnit we were bored stupid...
>
> Same thing happens once you grow up too. I notice lots of people using
> "basically" and "at the end of the day" way too often... Not to mention
> the fact that me, my girlfriend, my sister, and her boyfriend all spoke
> to each other like Borat for a few months after we saw the film.
"Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used
correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm
literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
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And lo on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:40:25 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> did
spake, saying:
> Phil Cook wrote:
>
>> Tcch I thought you read my blog :-P
>
> Yes. You've mentioned them several times, but I couldn't figure out who
> you're actually referring to.
As below, but my family structure is essentially Pater and Mater; Pater's
brother with his wife and their sons the Bratii; then Mater's sister with
her husband and their son Artist with his wife and their daughter Devil
Child. If I headed back another generation and spread out I'd need an A3
sheet and patience; lots of Great Aunts and Uncles with lots of kids.
>> My cousins Bratus Minor (6) and Bratus Major (um 11/13?) not to mention
>> Devil Child (2ish). Oh and before anyone points out my failure to
>> recall my cousins' ages realise you're conversing with someone that has
>> to do a quick calulation involving birth year and current year to
>> determine his own.
>
> You know you're old when... ;-)
Which means I got old when I hit the end of my teens :-)
> Mind you, my *mum* has started asking me how old I am. :-| Like, WTF?
Yeah that is kinda worrying
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And lo on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:00:26 -0000, Gilles Tran
<gil### [at] agroparistechfr> did spake, saying:
> 47cfca31$1@news.povray.org...
>> Yeh, I'd never heard of this game until I was in the car with my sister
>> and her boyfriend. They were playing this game but for the new Mini,
>> not
>> the bug. I don't know where they got it from.
>
> I was recently surprised to hear small kids <5 year old) use certain
> "gross/funny" words that were already popular with small kids 40 years
> ago.
> Since these words are only used by kids, you won't find them in books and
> parents/teachers are unlikely to use them. One can only guess that each
> generation of kids n pass them on to generation n+1. That's a 100% oral
> tradition, flying below the parental and academic radars and disconnected
> from the mainstream cultural environment. It's pretty amazing actually.
On the subject of games I have a vague recollection of someone writing a
book about it. He travelled around schools and made a note of what was
being played; I think he was surprised at the cross-pollination i.e. all
the schools had some form of Tag or British Bulldog etc.
Heh just checked Wikipedia had British Bulldog - "characterised by its
high level of violence and physicality, leading it to be banned from many
schools", but that's why it was fun.
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> "Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used
> correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm
> literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
I want to shoot every idiot who mixes up 'of' and 'have'. How the hell
can you confuse those??? I mean in cases like "I could of done it". WTF
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