Words

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:25 am

Dashboard, Where did ths word come from? It was the panel between you and the horses ass..

She sure had her tail over the dash .. When a horse was pissed it would put it's tail over the dashboard and fart at each step.. Then it became an expression of when a person would leave off in a huff

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:20 pm

Some folks used to poke the horses in the side as they went by people, just to release gas.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:48 am

"Haywire" was always a favorite of mine. And "sabotage", from sabot (a wooden peasant shoe) that would be thrown into the mechanical works of a Jacquard loom to produce the same results as that errant baling wire.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:49 am

Hey...where's Ranger Genius? I want HIM to play.

Post by **AntiM** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:04 am

RG is moving into a new place, in fact, mylarry's off helping them this morning. Don't know how long before he gets plugged back in.

The CO · Post by **The CO** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:57 am

(mind your) P's & Q's:

Pints and quarts, the glassware beer was served in, from days of yore when glass was much more precious. When bar brawls would break out, the barmen would holler to "mind your P's & Q's" lest they get broken and need replacement at great cost.

Spermalogger: a person that collects trivia.

Box Burner · Post by **Box Burner** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:11 pm

A bug in the machine/works/system.

From the early days of building and testing mainframe computers. Moths would get into the computer and short it out. It happened so often that it was the first thing they checked when the system went down.

K-mom · Post by **K-mom** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:48 pm

I always remember my epiphany one day realising how two economic terms, "currency" and "bank", both came from the same metaphor/basis of money and economics flowing like a river..it was like information that wasn't there in my head one day, then the next it was...it came one day in a restaurant, staring at a painting on the wall titled "The Bank", and the image was a girl sitting on a riverbank, and I was stupidly thinking what does that have to do with money?
switch on the lightbulb....

jpx · Post by **jpx** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:32 am

i like "disaster", just for its image -- bad star.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:38 am

Should I have my the rapist arrested?

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 6:08 am

Bazooka- named after an unusual musical instrument.

http://www.geocities.com/scottfranklinhall/bazooka.html

I prefer rpgs for light entertainment though.

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 6:13 am

shitstain (coined)

as in

He/she is the shitstain in the under shorts of life..

Words

Words

If I had a rocket launcher...