Is Lou a Big Lou or just a dumbass Lou. Go peddle your BS elsewhere Lou. Or is Lou short for loser. Or all these pesky trolls the same person using many different names to throw us off the track as to who they really are.
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One of those handy-dandy dual purpose words.
I don’t recall this example being used during the pun section of English grammar classes. Kind of a missed opportunity for effective teaching. Because oddly human nature, for some unknown reason, makes off color memory aids easier to remember.
No one I ever met remembers any of the clean version of the little ditties used to remember electronic component color codes.
Everyone one remembers this one or similar version – “Bad boys rape our young girls behind victory garden walls”. (alternate ending – but Violet gives willingly) black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, white. = 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.
Not many remember this one or similar:
“Big beautiful roses occupy your garden but Violets Grow Wild.” (yes, I had to look this one up)
The headmistress would have opted for this one.
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Blink, you’re losing it….
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There’s a grass landing strip on the bank of the upper Ohio River in West Virginia named Fokker Field. I used to fish on the Ohio side and watch ultralights fly in and out.
I knew a guy, who on returning from Vietnam, was given a big dinner by his family. His mother was all teary-eyed and asked him if there was anything any of them could do for him.
He replied: “Gimmee the fuckin salt.”
There was about a 5-second silence and some raised eyebrows.
izlamo delenda est …
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That was fokking funny. Then there was the fokking funny movie, “Meet the Fockers”. Too bad the main actors turned out to be such focking idiot asshoes.
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@Mark Webb – Been lost for a long time now. Done deal.
Just sayin, if ya teach English grammar to dummies that have trouble grasping what a pun is, & remembering what a pun is. They’ll understand what a pun is, and remember what a pun is because they won’t forget Sir Bader’s war story.
However, political correctness has put a stop to the use of many old school effective memory tricks that work.
I got to thinking one day that because of PC the Fission (product) Yield Curve was probably no longer allowed to be called the Mae West curve. But wondered – what do they call it now? Some boring name? I found a blog post by a guy a generation younger than myself who wrote they called it the Dolly Parton curve in his day.
Interestingly his blog post collected a comment by a guy who wrote at his lab they had an Asian PhD who called it the Mae West curve, he didn’t know who she was, but “figured she must be packing”. Kids. Labor Day weekend I was talking to one of my son’s friends, explaining to him that the guy who stopped by the house for a few minutes was a relative of Jimmy Doolittle. His response, “Who was Jimmy Doolittle. ?”
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Douglas Bader was a very demanding and difficult man to deal with if he didn’t get his way. He knew how to command men and shoot down German planes. Bader was a great inspiration to generations of people who never saw a Nazi bomber flying over the British Isles. I doubt he would be pleased with the uneducated rabble swarming over London defacing Churchill’s statue in front of Parliament, and insisting that Britain’s history be rewritten to focus on its racist past. Douglas Bader wouldn’t recognize the land he fought during the Battle of Britain. It only took about forty years to wreck hundreds of years of accomplishment.
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@flip – sounds like you live, or at one time lived, close to several members of my family in Belmont Co. A bunch of cousins around St Clairsville are. My brother just outside the town of Belmont. And a sister near Barnesville, who no longer talks to the rest of us.
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I had a Sociology Professor at Eastern Wash. University who was a Navy veteran just like I am, one time when I was talking to him he told me a similar story to what Tim wrote above after he had come home from the Navy and was at a family gathering and the first thing he said was to pass the fucking food which caused everyone in his family to gasp at what he said. Once a Navy vet always a Navy vet and the all too often use of the word fuck at inappropriate times. Fortunately for me I never said fuck around my parents very often, my mom would’ve slapped the shit out of me and my dad being an Air Force veteran might’ve laughed after kicking my ass first. And I only heard my dad say fuck once when after a drunk driver had driven into his chain link fence at the back of his yard next to a busy street and tear the fence all to pieces, he was pissed. There are other swear words that are far worse that ex sailors use which include the word cock. Believe me having been in the Navy I heard them all, often way too frequently. Including my greeting when I got to boot camp in San Diego on Aug. 31. 1972 when we were greeted with a shout of “All right you motherfuckers get off that bus.” And all the new recruits looked at each other saying ‘Oh shit, what have we got ourselves into.”
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Unfortunately my Sociology Professor who I counted as a colleague and a friend was also gay and a tortured soul committed suicide in the early 80’s. I’ll never understand why.
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@Geoff – Yep, I had a few shipmates return from leave home telling stories about mothers going into shock when they unthinkingly asked where the sh__can was moved to. Or asked her to pass the fokker salt.
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lolol
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Being Sailors they should’ve asked their mothers where the head was, that would’ve thrown em for a loop.
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Dubious story taken from an old joke:
A reporter was interviewing an old Norwegian fighter pilot, asking him how it was in the war.
“Vell,” said the old guy, “ve used to fly up dere and dogfight dem Krauts. Ya, ve used to shoot dem German fokkers outta da sky.”
“For the benefit of our viewers,” interrupted the reporter, “we should explain that the term ‘Fokker’ refers to a specific type of German fighter plane.”
“Vell, ya” said the old pilot, “but dese fokkers vas flying Messerschmitts.”
Maybe Bader heard that joke at some point in his life, but I’m sure he was too much of a gentleman to have used that kind of language in front of a group of young English schoolgirls.
https://youtu.be/-8Yf5B6GbYk?t=37
Is Lou a Big Lou or just a dumbass Lou. Go peddle your BS elsewhere Lou. Or is Lou short for loser. Or all these pesky trolls the same person using many different names to throw us off the track as to who they really are.
One of those handy-dandy dual purpose words.
I don’t recall this example being used during the pun section of English grammar classes. Kind of a missed opportunity for effective teaching. Because oddly human nature, for some unknown reason, makes off color memory aids easier to remember.
No one I ever met remembers any of the clean version of the little ditties used to remember electronic component color codes.
Everyone one remembers this one or similar version – “Bad boys rape our young girls behind victory garden walls”. (alternate ending – but Violet gives willingly) black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, white. = 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.
Not many remember this one or similar:
“Big beautiful roses occupy your garden but Violets Grow Wild.” (yes, I had to look this one up)
The headmistress would have opted for this one.
Blink, you’re losing it….
There’s a grass landing strip on the bank of the upper Ohio River in West Virginia named Fokker Field. I used to fish on the Ohio side and watch ultralights fly in and out.
https://www.airnav.com/airport/WV66
I knew a guy, who on returning from Vietnam, was given a big dinner by his family. His mother was all teary-eyed and asked him if there was anything any of them could do for him.
He replied: “Gimmee the fuckin salt.”
There was about a 5-second silence and some raised eyebrows.
izlamo delenda est …
That was fokking funny. Then there was the fokking funny movie, “Meet the Fockers”. Too bad the main actors turned out to be such focking idiot asshoes.
@Mark Webb – Been lost for a long time now. Done deal.
Just sayin, if ya teach English grammar to dummies that have trouble grasping what a pun is, & remembering what a pun is. They’ll understand what a pun is, and remember what a pun is because they won’t forget Sir Bader’s war story.
However, political correctness has put a stop to the use of many old school effective memory tricks that work.
I got to thinking one day that because of PC the Fission (product) Yield Curve was probably no longer allowed to be called the Mae West curve. But wondered – what do they call it now? Some boring name? I found a blog post by a guy a generation younger than myself who wrote they called it the Dolly Parton curve in his day.
Interestingly his blog post collected a comment by a guy who wrote at his lab they had an Asian PhD who called it the Mae West curve, he didn’t know who she was, but “figured she must be packing”. Kids. Labor Day weekend I was talking to one of my son’s friends, explaining to him that the guy who stopped by the house for a few minutes was a relative of Jimmy Doolittle. His response, “Who was Jimmy Doolittle. ?”
Douglas Bader was a very demanding and difficult man to deal with if he didn’t get his way. He knew how to command men and shoot down German planes. Bader was a great inspiration to generations of people who never saw a Nazi bomber flying over the British Isles. I doubt he would be pleased with the uneducated rabble swarming over London defacing Churchill’s statue in front of Parliament, and insisting that Britain’s history be rewritten to focus on its racist past. Douglas Bader wouldn’t recognize the land he fought during the Battle of Britain. It only took about forty years to wreck hundreds of years of accomplishment.
@flip – sounds like you live, or at one time lived, close to several members of my family in Belmont Co. A bunch of cousins around St Clairsville are. My brother just outside the town of Belmont. And a sister near Barnesville, who no longer talks to the rest of us.
I had a Sociology Professor at Eastern Wash. University who was a Navy veteran just like I am, one time when I was talking to him he told me a similar story to what Tim wrote above after he had come home from the Navy and was at a family gathering and the first thing he said was to pass the fucking food which caused everyone in his family to gasp at what he said. Once a Navy vet always a Navy vet and the all too often use of the word fuck at inappropriate times. Fortunately for me I never said fuck around my parents very often, my mom would’ve slapped the shit out of me and my dad being an Air Force veteran might’ve laughed after kicking my ass first. And I only heard my dad say fuck once when after a drunk driver had driven into his chain link fence at the back of his yard next to a busy street and tear the fence all to pieces, he was pissed. There are other swear words that are far worse that ex sailors use which include the word cock. Believe me having been in the Navy I heard them all, often way too frequently. Including my greeting when I got to boot camp in San Diego on Aug. 31. 1972 when we were greeted with a shout of “All right you motherfuckers get off that bus.” And all the new recruits looked at each other saying ‘Oh shit, what have we got ourselves into.”
Unfortunately my Sociology Professor who I counted as a colleague and a friend was also gay and a tortured soul committed suicide in the early 80’s. I’ll never understand why.
@Geoff – Yep, I had a few shipmates return from leave home telling stories about mothers going into shock when they unthinkingly asked where the sh__can was moved to. Or asked her to pass the fokker salt.
lolol
Being Sailors they should’ve asked their mothers where the head was, that would’ve thrown em for a loop.
Dubious story taken from an old joke:
A reporter was interviewing an old Norwegian fighter pilot, asking him how it was in the war.
“Vell,” said the old guy, “ve used to fly up dere and dogfight dem Krauts. Ya, ve used to shoot dem German fokkers outta da sky.”
“For the benefit of our viewers,” interrupted the reporter, “we should explain that the term ‘Fokker’ refers to a specific type of German fighter plane.”
“Vell, ya” said the old pilot, “but dese fokkers vas flying Messerschmitts.”
Maybe Bader heard that joke at some point in his life, but I’m sure he was too much of a gentleman to have used that kind of language in front of a group of young English schoolgirls.