Mister Slang

I'm a Fun Guy Fungi have always amazed me.

I'm a Fun Guy
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How _heavy_ the era's clothes so often appear. (Sitting as I am in 30deg). For some perverse (argotic?) reason I think he may be my favourite so far of your subjects.

I fear your clogs had already been compulsorily popped at ‘squeeze bottle.’

Nancy Friedman Thanks for contributing to Fritinancy, the Substack about names, brands, words, and the language of commerce!

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G'wan, you know you wanna.

The Vice-Presidency, according to one of its holders, John Nance Garner (FDR's VP 1936-41), was ‘not worth a bucket of warm piss’. He had not, of course, met the exploitative possibilities afforded a Trump appointee.

Perhaps you would care to put me right?

Deleting the ‘history’ and rebooting finally helped me. But the damage had been done. Fortunately I have now sorted it and can, what a relief, return to amassing citations for ‘fist fucking’ and it’s kin as found by the late Dr Simes.

Very nice set.

JG

Porca madonna! That doesn't sound kosher to me.

Now that's a face like... greensdictofslang.com/entry/7e5aaaa

100,000 Chances 1 Million puppies not being born into suffering

100,000 Chances
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Just want to thank google once again for blocking my gmails via gemini. The vital code, concerning my ill wife's health, turned up an hour ago. It was good for 15 mins. This expired long before I managed to escape from gemini. May an old man curse every person involved.

I have already (years ago I imagine) told gmail settings that I do not want gemini or any other 'smart' (AI I assume) programs. Yet the wretched logo will not remove itself. Nor when it comes up (a mis-click?) is there any obvious way of removing it. Time to quit gmail, I guess. Any recommendations.

@developers.google.com I have just lost an hours work thanks to an ad for gemini jumping into my gmail mailing and making it impossible to access gmail. It does not offer a turn-off. This is atrocious. Can anyone explain what I need to do.

@newsfromgoogle.bsky.social How do I get your ad for Gemini off my gmail screen. I have just lost an hour's work when I needed to check a time sensitive email and this ad overrides my mailing. Thanks for nothing.

I am in the middle of a vitally important connection. I need to check an email. I have an ad for fucking Gemini. It seems to have no off switch. Please can someone help.

Grabber ma., or D. Cameron as I have always believed.

GDoS who cannot pass such a word by, has: greensdictofslang.com/entry/xleoobq
an adj. and verb follow.

They told me it couldn't be done. They told me I was crazy to try. Un cosmopolite sans racines fou! But I searched. And I found. Smoked haddock (not a fish of the Med) in my southern French seaside city. Bring on the rice, the onions, the curcurma and the cardamom. Kedgeree! Yaar! You're back!

Or try rearching uses of 'dog' as used in slang (greensdictofslang.com/entry/vksmubi).

Trump's Epstein problem, explained Man runs for Biggest Bear on the Mountain.

Trump's Epstein problem, explained
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Israel’s Forever War Donald Trump has already claimed that his promotion of ceasefires in Africa and Asia makes him fully deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize, but if he really wants to be recognised as a top peacemaker, th...

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And from the Cité Phocéenne too.

Box On, You Bastards Australia's National Dictionary Under Threat

The first Australian Dictionary was published in 1812. Have we seen the last? jonathongreen.substack.com/p/box-on-you...

Derelictions Down Under Much Treasure, Less Trove

The fate of the Aus. Nat. Dict. is still moot, but bets are on the pinchfarts and one of the world's great lexicographical projects will be killed off. In 2022, in honour of Trove, the then threatened database of Oz papers, I wrote this.
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One more time!

The cite I mention at ‘Dutch clock’ certainly wins on currently recorded chronology: 1845

Nah, garn, you stupid idiot box !

Exhibit A - if he loves you you are adored...if he doesn't love you he will act like Godzilla

Mapping the Grim | black shucks and spectral black dogs | public archaeology Mapping the grim, black shucks and spectral black dogs, wild hunts, werewolves, and grims geolocated across the British Isles and even a few further afield. As featured on Charlie Cooper's Myth Countr...

As it's Black Shuck day, here's that Shuck map. It's ten years old, and like all these mapping projects makes me miss Jess Macdonald – aka Jessikart, more than ever – partner in daft shit for 15 years.

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Seaside postcard by Donald McGill, date 1963. Next to the sea, a fat middle-aged man is astride a donkey, white cliffs(or poss. a building) and a boat in the distance, another fatty is sitting on the sand. The caption: "I’m sitting on my ass on the sands" refers to both characters.

Apropos of the whole arse (UK) / ass (US) duopoly, I note the attached seaside postcard. Created by Donald McGill (see G. Orwell for commentary) and if anyone was considered more English than he...