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the new linguistics

Two nights ago, Alex walked into the bedroom to go to sleep and found me standing on the bed, fanning a pillow vigorously in the air.

“Did you just fart?”
“Nooooooooo… I would never.”
“You beefed, didn’t you!”
“What’s ‘beefed?’”
“You’ve never heard a fart referred to as ‘beefing’ before?”
“No, I’m just going to have to mark this as one more way dating a Very Boy-like Boy has enriched my life.”
“Huh? What are the others?”

I believe I actually fell asleep before answering, citing pillow-fanning exhaustion. But this does not diminish the fact that living with a Very Boy-like Boy has added a whole assortment of new potty-mouthed phrases to my obviously deprived vocabulary. I would hate to spare you, Dear Internet, these cases in point:

  • “Dropping the kids off at the pool.”
  • “Pinching a loaf.”
  • “Poot.”
  • “Asparagus pee.”
  • “My library” as in “I’ll be in my library if you need me.”
  • “Buttnugget,” as an affectionate term, of course.
  • The word “pants” as a taunt, for example, “You’ve officially solidified your reputation in this office as Pants.”

I bet you just can’t wait to introduce me to your mother now, can you?

comments (22)

Oh... asparagus pee... also know as "stinkle". I'm not proud about knowing that.

1 | Whiskypants | March 31, 2005 03:46 PM

LOL my favorite that isn't used much anymore is: "Floating an Air Biscuit"

My bother and I are notorious for coming up with phrases refering to masterbation just to wig out our mother. my favorite: "Punching Pedro"

2 | Master Foley | March 31, 2005 03:53 PM

howbout "makin' bears"? ...or a "grumpy"?

3 | Anonymous | March 31, 2005 04:15 PM

my boyfriend likes to say "man - i just dropped an 8-pounder" must be love!

4 | lou | March 31, 2005 04:47 PM

"I just gave birth to a brown baby boy."

Although, I've never used that one personally...

[whistles innocently]

5 | ccs178 (Chris) | March 31, 2005 04:54 PM

More poop humor! Nothing cheers up my day faster. Bring it.

6 | deb | March 31, 2005 05:06 PM

"Dropping the kids off at the pool" - Stephen Colbert used that one in a Daily Show report on the Michael Jackson trial and I *only just* realized what it means, thanks to you.

Now if I could just decipher the phrase "poon tang," all would be right in the world. Is it something to do with raccoon roadkill?

7 | Georgia | March 31, 2005 05:08 PM

I was hoping more people were going to post comments. I had a couple more I was going to add, but I don't want to be the Lone Ranger of poop humor. ;)

8 | ccs178 (Chris) | April 1, 2005 09:34 AM

Ha! During Easter my uncle shared a heart warming family memory in which my cousin crawled out into suburbia one morning and "pinched a loaf" on the sidewalk.

9 | corie | April 1, 2005 10:20 AM

I am also thoroughly entertained by the fact that your ads for this post are for fart machines.

10 | corie | April 1, 2005 10:21 AM

Don't forget the "Evil Inside" sticker that should be slapped on most "Thrones" after a man emerges from the "Reading Room" .. or the endearing phrase "Broccoli Farts".

11 | Jane Smith | April 1, 2005 10:37 AM

A good friend of mine (who is most definitely male) refers to his poop time as "growing a tail." I am better for having met him, for sure.

12 | Julie | April 1, 2005 11:19 AM

My dad, a normally conservative Singaporean man, likes to use the following:

: Bombing [insert country name per size of dump here]
: On the throne

Dropping the kids off at the pool has always been a personal favorite. That and "The train needs to leave the station."

13 | Muffy Wong | April 1, 2005 11:55 AM

For particularly difficult "movements":

"I had to Dukes of Hazzard it out."
"It was an Elvis."

If anybody needs clarification, just ask. :)

14 | ccs178 (Chris) | April 1, 2005 12:43 PM

This might be a good time to brag that my fiancé can accurately onomatopoeia at least eight different types of, er, gaseous emissions, from the "broccoli last night" to the "walking down the street and you can't hear me!"

I'm marrying a man with some impressive skills, non?

15 | deb | April 1, 2005 12:55 PM

Taking the Browns to the Super Bowl
Backing the brown caddy out of the garage
Dropping a load
The Hershey Squirts
Making a rock garden (only when I'm dehydrated)
Blowing out your "O" ring (a difficult task)

I'll stop now.

16 | Howard | April 1, 2005 04:30 PM

Please don't stop.

17 | deb | April 1, 2005 04:48 PM

For under-blanket emissions in my home's bed, we use the traditional term "Dutch Oven" and reform to random nations and cooking appliences, i.e. "Japanese Microwave."

It's also fun to tell someone with something in their nose as having "bears in the cave."

18 | sarah | April 1, 2005 10:34 PM

I have one that is VERY politically incorrect so I won't post it here. Send me an e-mail if you wanna know it. But I'll warn you some people might find it very untasteful.

19 | Jarno | April 2, 2005 09:27 AM

Yeah, living with boys will do that to you. I live with two. God help me. My personal favorite is "On deck". Spoken right before they "Let fly".

20 | Agategoddess | April 4, 2005 09:22 AM

I can't believe no one has yet mentioned two of my favorite terms for the urgent need to evacuate one's bowels:

to have the turtle's head
touching cloth

21 | Nigel Morphine | April 4, 2005 01:14 PM

growing up with four older brothers, I heard them all...I had completely forgotten about "beef" until I read this, though. It brought me right back to waking up on saturday mornings to an ass hanging in the doorway and the threat that one of them would "beef" in the doorway if I didn't wake up.
My two male roommates follow the rules of "safety"--if you fart, you must say safety before anyone else realizes it, otherwise they will shout "doorknob." Once "doorknob" is called, you must run to touch a doorknob or will have the living shit beat out of you. It's almost as adorable as the statutes and bylaws regarding "shotgun"--only with the added bonus of a stinky living room. Also, one friend of mine recently proudly announced that a disgusting emission of gas was one of his "Top 5 farts"--something he keeps track of, apparently.

22 | sassycat | April 4, 2005 09:13 PM

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