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Re: Family Slang

Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 6:20 am
by ritchey
hahaha that reminds me of "Smell you later forever," which I also say often

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 7:58 am
by m o l l y
If anything in our house is not functioning properly, is broken or if either of us just feels wrecked it/we is/are "kapuntik and fonebone" or just "fonebone."

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 11:57 am
by alex
Is this related to the character "Fone bone" from the comicbook Bone?

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 12:14 pm
by m o l l y
It, alas, is also a Simpson's quote. From when Bart visits Mad Magazine headquarters for a quick sec.

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 3:13 pm
by kmikeym
i think i got this from jona? but we call veganaise "wet" especially when it is a situation where mayo might be weird, but you prolly want some wet...

"Do you want some wet on your taco?"

The answer is always yes.

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 4:36 pm
by RCH
If there is an animal victim of a car in the road, I say "he's sleeping"

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 5:07 pm
by kmikeym
RCH wrote: Tue May 12, 2020 4:36 pm If there is an animal victim of a car in the road, I say "he's sleeping"
yes! this is an important one!

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 7:26 pm
by w0lf
i love this! some random ones comin 2 mind

- "taco meat" is a man's curly chest hair
- "j hole" accidental curse i still say
- you'd say "that tickled my booty" if you got the chills or a similar sensation
- "bread butt" not ankle i guess we liked butts
- "mote control" parents midwestern accent turned phrase
- "peanut head" is an annoying person / kid, my dad pretty much calls everyone a "knucklehead"
- "strawberry" is a loose woman
- "roger" annoying neighbor person from sister sister "go home roger"
- "dankars and poogats" was a game my older brother made up, was extended to all games

god there were so many more!

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 7:36 pm
by astral hellion
We called those very 70s brown rubbery circles that you put under the legs of furniture (to protect the carpet?) “googadots.”
They were a fixture in my childhood home, which also featured an entire wall of those “aged/marbled” mirror tiles behind the television.
Once when I was just learning to read we went to our local video store to rent our single weekly movie. I was VERY excited by a large cardboard cut-out advertising the film I believed was titled “20,000 LEACHES Under the Sea.”

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 9:52 pm
by yourfriendclaire
w0lf wrote: Tue May 12, 2020 7:26 pm - "strawberry" is a loose woman
What is this origin of this?! Love

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 3:23 am
by ritchey
I ALSO USE J-HOLE STILL

It is from a long-ago SNL skit

I love finding others who use it

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 3:35 am
by ritchey
My parents still call all refrigerators "ice boxes." I take this for granted but maybe it is somewhat exotic? Does anyone else use this term for the fridge? Might be either a Texas thing and/or a thing from my dad's scrappy pre-Boomer childhood or something? It seems so ancient, the days of the ice man coming to your door with a huge block of ice in a pair of tongs and dumping it into your "ice box," which was basically just a big cooler, but maybe it really was as recently as the 40s and my dad thus maybe experienced this in his early childhood and the term has simply lingered in the family lexicon? I will ask him.

"Your daddy wants to get a new ice box"
"I've got three pounds of rhubarb in the ice box"
"Well our ice box doesn't have one of those ice maker things"

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 7:45 am
by w0lf
[mention]ritchey[/mention] LOL! my favorite along with d bag

[mention]yourfriendclaire[/mention] my sister came up with it, it's in reference to a hairstyle popular for black women in the 90s. i'm trying to find a good pic of it, but it involved stiff curls/spikes

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 12:56 pm
by Phil
This is a new one but I plan on keeping it forever.

When you burp, instead of saying excuse me you unleash this aggressive lie:
“I didn’t burp.”

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 1:01 pm
by m o l l y
That's cool. I like that!
When we burp, you have to follow up by saying wah-wah and shimmying your shoulders.

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 2:24 pm
by w0lf
remembered another butt related term
the part under yr cheeks is called "tuck"
so when evaluating asses it's like
he got a lotta tuck
she got no tuck
etc

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 2:39 pm
by infopetal
Phil wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2020 2:12 pm Oh yeah cron. Steve Kado saw that one in Toronto at a veg market.
BB law states that when someone is mentioned they may be invited to the BB. welcome [mention]Regular_Yaris[/mention]!! (I'm assuming there is only one Steve Kado?)

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 2:43 pm
by yourfriendclaire
Oh man the friend groups are all coalescing into one like a glorious collapsing star

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 2:47 pm
by joni
THIS Steve Kado as featured in the attached photo of us from 2003?
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Re: Family Slang

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 3:13 pm
by Regular_Yaris
Phil wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2020 2:12 pm Oh yeah cron. Steve Kado saw that one in Toronto at a veg market.

To sing along confidently to the radio when you don’t know the words and you make them up is called “ricksmacking”. I swear these are real.
This has extra meaning, because in Mississauga "Cron" is also what they call weed. Also, "Dat Cron" was shortened to Da-Cro. Given Mississauga's proximity to Toronto seeing corn called cron was extremely funny.

As a result of 'social forces' the neighborhood that sold vegetables (where the cron sign appeared) transitioned to a grey market weed store neighborhood - resulting in cron entirely displacing corn. Soon, all of Ontario will be called Cron.

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 4:37 pm
by ritchey
Wonderful

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 2:19 am
by m o l l y
joni wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 2:47 pm THIS Steve Kado as featured in the attached photo of us from 2003?

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Are we dithering into red blue and yellow now? Love it!!

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Sun May 17, 2020 9:42 am
by RCH
Potato is potate
Banana is banan

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Sun May 17, 2020 9:46 am
by ritchey
dog food is "chicken"

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Sun May 17, 2020 10:15 am
by yourfriendclaire
Every male stranger is “sir”
Every female stranger is “miss”
If you have some kind of feeling of connection or ownership re: a stranger, it’s “my sir” or “my miss”

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Sun May 17, 2020 10:43 am
by Phil
“Brush your teeth” is “bronch your toot”.

Bikini is bookini.

All music is “my punk tapes”.

Every vehicle is a Jeep.

Every haircut is getting your head shaved.

A sleeping bag is a snooze tube.

Banana is baner.

Dry cat food is cereal.

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Sun May 17, 2020 10:58 am
by ritchey
Phil I suspect that "punk tapes" comes from Jason, who got it from watching the John Belushi biopic "Wired" with me in the year 1998

if there is some other origin of this for you please tell me

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Sun May 17, 2020 5:12 pm
by Phil
It’s from Joey like almost all the others.

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Mon May 18, 2020 2:08 am
by ritchey
that's wild!! How fun.

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Mon May 18, 2020 6:40 pm
by yourfriendclaire
Jona just reminded me that we say “funky” instead of “fucking” 90% of the time. For example: “that’s funky interesting,” or “oh my funky god”

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Mon May 18, 2020 8:15 pm
by Phil
Important one I can’t believe I forgot until now:
pizza is called “pidge”

This may seem dumb and uninteresting, but believe me it has a rich and complex origin story that brings me great joy every time I say it.

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Tue May 19, 2020 5:04 am
by ritchey
I love pidge

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Tue May 19, 2020 7:26 pm
by rcnederveld
Phil wrote: Mon May 04, 2020 1:31 pm If there is residual adhesive gunk on a surface where a sticker used to be and it’s all blackened and smeared around it’s called “shremel”. (Emphasis on second syllable.)
We (Cajuns) call this gradou!

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Tue May 19, 2020 7:36 pm
by rcnederveld
ritchey wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 3:35 am My parents still call all refrigerators "ice boxes." I take this for granted but maybe it is somewhat exotic? Does anyone else use this term for the fridge?
Def a southern thing. My dad still says it / my grandpa only used the word, and they grew up in NOLA.

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 2:55 am
by ritchey
My parents are full-on Texas in their speech/accent/idiom even after at this point like 35 years living in Colorado, so I just always assume anything weird they say is because of that background. I am glad to get icebox corroboration! I find it really cute. ICE BOX. Just a bare bones description of what the thing does

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 7:15 pm
by Phil
Robocop is called Robot Cop.

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 8:15 pm
by yourfriendclaire
In our household too!

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 3:39 pm
by m o l l y
The land lady is the "lady lord"

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:39 pm
by yourfriendclaire
An earthquake is “the rumbleman”

As in “hope the rumbleman doesn’t visit us again tonight!

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:49 pm
by kmikeym
DRP, said "dee are pee"

stands for dignity, respect, and pride

used as a betting currency when someone is too cheap to bet with money

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:50 pm
by kmikeym
that last rumbleman really got us motivated to get our emergency helping gear in place

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:13 pm
by yourfriendclaire
I hated him!

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 3:37 am
by m o l l y
We say "big deal" instead of "deal."

Like: "hey, If you run out and get bananas I'll make crepes!" "Big deal!"

If you disagree to the deal, you say, "no big deal."

Re: Family Slang

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2020 9:38 am
by yourfriendclaire
Anything that goes in a taco is “matter”