The Bags o' mystery I was eating was not up to dick. Don't sell me a dog, you flubbed the dubb, and didn't tell me it was terrible, you butter and egg man. Don't make me pop a mouse on you. And turn on the air conditioning, it's hotter than a half-f**cked fox in a forest fire. Damn zib.
There is a strange sound in the american language. It sounds like "beeeeep", and you can find it in the word "f**ked" for example. More seriously why? Is there a law that says you can't say "fuck" on the internet in their country?
On Television, to maintain a certain rating (G, PG, etc) you need to not swear. The difference between pg-13 (parental guidance needed under the age of 13) or pg14, one is for movies and one is for television, I forget which is which, and M (mature audience only) is usually the presence of certain swear words. A way around this is to bleep out certain ones. It is not necessary on the internet, but some channels, like this one, probably do it to keep it a bit more child/family friendly. It is seen in the culture, thus to maintain a certain amount of "family friendly"-ness, they just bleep out the word.
no, you can, plenty of youtubers do, but people in just america make a bigger deal out of swearing then the rest of the world, so they bleep it out according to what audience they think they have... yeah it annoys me too
There are laws for tv and radio, but not the internet. The reasons people self-censor are various, some actually think swear words are morally objectionable. Others do it because they're afraid of scaring away that those people, particularly children and schools.
They want these videos to be family-friendly, and many parents don't want their young kids to hear a bunch of swearing, 'cause the kids will pick it up. Apart from that, in the right circumstances, censoring curse words can be much funnier than just saying them outright. But I don't think that was the goal here.
what's with all the stuff about tipping in America? just because you pay the normal price for something means you're a bad person? get better minimum wage so people aren't so desperate to get extra money.. yes I am dutch (dutch are known for not tipping often) so that might explain but it just seems so stupid that you expect customers to pay extra for food just so their boss doesn't have to pay reasonable money to his employees
Once upon a time, a tip was something you gave for extraordinary service. And then people started underpaying serving staff with the assumption that they'd make it up in tips, which meant that now it was *expected*. And the kicker? Tipping doesn't actually encourage good service any more. The whole idea of tipping in the US sense is utter bull. People should be paid a proper wage.
I'm not american but I think I can answer your question. In my country people just tip in restaurants and only if the employee did his job very well and was nice to his customers, but in the United States it doesn't work that way. It's in their culture and it's something that is established. It used to be only optional and a way to show respect, but now, in some places, the tip comes in the pay check. It's usually 10%, And you don't really pay that much more for your food. If you spend 20 dollars having dinner for example, it's just more 2 dollars.
Pedro Chaves a 10% tip is pretty bad... 15% is considered "minimum" and you're still considered cheap...18%-20% is a regular tip and 25% is a great tip.
Allan Richardson she was probably a lousy waitress, lol, my husband (Canadian) is a very generous tipper, UNLESS the waitress ignores him, basically puts minimum effort into serving and doing her job.
Susana Zeddy This was back in the early 1970s, and Miami got lots of Canadian tourists, some of them not realizing the difference between the restaurants back home and the ones in the States. And others pretending not to understand. We went to that restaurant regularly back then, and she seemed good to us, so maybe the Canadians she had met were just stingy. And IHOP didn’t attract big spenders.
The nail matrix holds the nail under the skin facing you. It is hypothesised that the nail is an evolutionary characteristic to help protect our sensitive fingertips. Notice the detail you can sense with the tips of your fingers, you can feel even the smallest textures. Under the nail is the hundreds of nerve endings which are the same nerves that are on your fingertips. When something gets underneath the nail it triggers these sensitive nerve endings, which dramatically amplifies pain.
From the East Coast Navy town... cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey! Cannon balls used to be stacked on the deck in a brass tray called a monkey, which when cold enough the brass will shrink and the cast iron cannon balls will then roll loose across the deck!
Question:If someone in China was killed,and someone who was there went back across the international date line,could they say "They were killed tomorrow"?
It still already happened. Dates are not part if time. Dates are a way of measuring time therefore the date is just a number and has nothing to do with the a curiosa TIME or DAY of death or any other event.
Inferno8694 plus if someone died in china, then when over the international date line they would have died the day before. meaning when its sunday in china its saturday over the date line so its still at the same time where ever just the dates are different.
Lachlan Sheppard what if you were to like, go the other way man. like seven times. then they would have been killed next week. woah, you would totally have enough time to stop the murder with a whole week.
OMG!!!! It's you I was reading this book you might know, "The Fault in our Stars" and I realized... John Green.... John Green... I know that name... I looked at the back and there was your picture I remembered you mentioning some of your books in your videos. They are absolutely Fantastic!!!! I can appreciate them even more! :3
Rowynne, Not at all. If a oerson undertakes to explain something and fails for whatever reason (if this case speaking so fast as many others poibt out). then he has failed. if he were here in person I would walk away. Fortunately, I have a speed control button so I can slow him down. I don't expect at all that you will agree with me, after all your a woman.
I think this was the most entertaining Mental Floss episode to date. I'm all for bringing some of these back; my French Horn playing students will now be known as Pretzel-Benders.
Language lovers may enjoy our video about the often-unlikely origins of some common idioms (including why we "give someone the cold shoulder"): ruclips.net/video/WW5FDhsHkUg/видео.html
To be in one's cups, blitzed, blotto, lit, snot-slinging drunk. And you're right, it can be very embarrassing to be caught choking the chicken, spanking the monkey, pealing the carrot, or self-service.
I know just how you feel. I think it's the recording device, but it differs from person to person. Some people sound barely different but others are barely recognisable
He answers this question in the video. Your voice doesn't really sound like how it does in real life. You are hearing your real voice when you listen to a recording of any kind. If you want to know why your voice sounds different in your head then re watch the video but the jist of it is: that anything not in your head will not sound like how you think you sound like.
You sound different BECAUSE of the physical aspect. If you were to talk to me right now you will sound the same as on film or recording unless you have recorded in a way that changes your voice. If you listen to your voice on recording and it sounds different than in your head then you are normal. Talk right now. As you talk feel your through and behind your ears. Do you feel the vibrations? Those vibrations are also picked up by your ear in edition to the sound waves that you put out. When you listen to a recording of yourself you hear your voice without the extra vibrations. That voice on the recording is how you sound everyday. The recording doesn't change your voice for other people... your body changes it for you.
(Paraphrasing here): "Damp is not a sexy word. Moist is. Think about it like cake. If you go 'oh how's that cake?' and they reply 'It's moist!' you'll go 'oh that sounds quite pleasant' but if they say 'it's damp'..." -Nerdcubed
An English girl I was dating used to say “Going to spend a penny” when heading to the bathroom. This was a reference to the cost of using a public restroom in Britain. Taking a powder or powdering you’re nose were also terms for the same thing.
There are tons more old-fashioned slang words they could have used, but these were hilarious. I'm definitely going to be using some of these ("Can you PLEASE shut your sauce box while I do my homework?").
A long time ago a friend of mine used to say, "Hotter than a four peckered goat in a field of sheep." I don't know where it came from but it was funny to me.
You are very good at getting a lot of content into your video's and not making it 40 frustrating minutes long, please never change that. Also, just saw the video on SourceFed, never knew you had a few books, I will take a look at them.
Many swear words are actually short forms of extreme oaths, such as "or kill me in this painful way". Also, one of the 10 commandments is to not use God's name etc. in oaths that you don't really mean that seriously. Thus it becomes a double sin to lie in court after swearing to God with your hand on the Bible. From this, the ban on swearing has been gradually extended to cover bad words that are not oaths at all.
"If a dog rabbit" saying, stemmed from an old saying from the late 1800's, speaking of the power and diversity of the word, "IF"...IF the dog hadn't stopped to take a S**t, he'd caught the rabbit !"
WASD Games Hence "said the semantics Nazi" at the end of that comment. naota3k was calling themselves a semantics Nazi and pointing out the silliness of correcting someone else's comment that was complaining about someone else correcting yet another person's comment. I probably couldn't have written that in a more confusing way.... XD
@Antony Ruiz . Yep. That sounds like me. Being an english speaker, in england, i just want everyone to speak like me. Just the same as everyone else in the world does. Hey! Have a nice day. Xx
Did you EVER think about being an auctioneer...!? You talk fast enough! and you talk FASTER than I can think & comprehend !!! just like an auctioneer ! THANKS FOR POSTING !
I remember the monkey's uncle slang was used in the 1930s and 40s. For instance in one of The Marx Brothers movies someone would say, "I'm a monkey's uncle!" then Groucho would reply, "Keep your family out of this!"
I watched this strictly to see if zozzled would be here. I was not let down. (But seriously, can you imagine playing that in Super Scrabble? Like, on the quadruple word score space? Damn. You'd even get a 'z' on the double letter space... Yeah, let's bring that word back.)
Holy shit. I clicked on this video from another website and it didn't show the views it just showed the video and i was thinking ''I bet this video has 800k views'' then I clicked on the title of the video so it could bring me to youtube AND IT HAS 807K VIEWS RIGHT NOW *(807,435 to be exact)* AM I PSYCHIC OR WHAT?!
I've been using the term "drugstore cowboy" for the last 17 years or so in everyday speech: it meant a "guy who wandered around town aimlessly and randomly trying to pick up women". Originally from the 1920's, the reference to "drugstore" here was because the concession and soft drink stands at the pharmacy were actually "hangouts" for anyone who didn't feel like going to the bar.
I don't get why or how anyone could 'thumbs down' any of these videos! (Well, I get HOW someone could 'thumbs down' a video. I do in fact have a basic 3rd grade understanding of human physiology.) This, among I'm sure all of your videos, is gold. I'd like to shake your hand.
I'm gonna bake a cake so moist, girls are gonna be like, "Eww, why you say moist? I hate that word." I'll be like, "Just taste the cake." And they gon' be like, "Damn. It's moist."
For anyone wondering why I'm here, is because I need some people to hit me with phrases and saying that cowboys use in the western days! So reply to me with a phrase or saying that the cowboys used. That way I can screenshot them and write them down since researching isn't going well for me.
I like the word moist. It can be used to describe food so we'll, like cake. You don't call a cake damp, do you? No, you call it moist. Also, can we all start calling mouths dick holsters? I heard someone say it one time and I just cracked up.
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I just realized that If you hear your own voice deeper and more full than every one else... can you imagine how Morgan Freeman hears himself?
Or avi from pentatonix
I hope he does not hear a helium voice.
I fuckin lost it on #36
I will dedicate my life to bringing that slang term back.
JD Miller I'm in.
+Nerd Jocky i'll help!!!
I dedicate my life to #3
A colleague used to say "so hot the hens lay boiled eggs".
nice 😄
The Bags o' mystery I was eating was not up to dick. Don't sell me a dog, you flubbed the dubb, and didn't tell me it was terrible, you butter and egg man. Don't make me pop a mouse on you. And turn on the air conditioning, it's hotter than a half-f**cked fox in a forest fire. Damn zib.
There is a strange sound in the american language. It sounds like "beeeeep", and you can find it in the word "f**ked" for example.
More seriously why? Is there a law that says you can't say "fuck" on the internet in their country?
On Television, to maintain a certain rating (G, PG, etc) you need to not swear. The difference between pg-13 (parental guidance needed under the age of 13) or pg14, one is for movies and one is for television, I forget which is which, and M (mature audience only) is usually the presence of certain swear words. A way around this is to bleep out certain ones.
It is not necessary on the internet, but some channels, like this one, probably do it to keep it a bit more child/family friendly. It is seen in the culture, thus to maintain a certain amount of "family friendly"-ness, they just bleep out the word.
no, you can, plenty of youtubers do, but people in just america make a bigger deal out of swearing then the rest of the world, so they bleep it out according to what audience they think they have... yeah it annoys me too
There are laws for tv and radio, but not the internet. The reasons people self-censor are various, some actually think swear words are morally objectionable. Others do it because they're afraid of scaring away that those people, particularly children and schools.
The US is just weird that way. They can shoot a guy on their property, yet they can't call him "FUCKING BASTARD!!!" while they do it. That'd be rude.
They want these videos to be family-friendly, and many parents don't want their young kids to hear a bunch of swearing, 'cause the kids will pick it up.
Apart from that, in the right circumstances, censoring curse words can be much funnier than just saying them outright. But I don't think that was the goal here.
One of my Grandpa's favourite's was "It's so cold I could piss a walking stick"…
Ezma Stolichnaya I laughed loudly at that one!
Ezma Stolichnaya And your grandpa sounds great!!! My husband and I never heard this one before! We laughed!
So cold I saw a dog stuck to a fire hydrant...
That's awesome!
New one for me
Apparently' "dog faced pony soldier" didnt make the list.....
Chefmasterkaga Ole Joe still uses it 😊
Chefmasterkaga Trump 2020
#TRUMPNEVERAGAIN
Joan Bowden TRUMP 2020 YEAH 😀
M Detlef
In the bathtub!
Back in the olden days, a Why Bother was a cup of decaf coffee
Love it :D
still is, also if it is served with skim milk
These days, too. Why get coffee if you don't want caffeine?
@@bethy-lou3307 if coffee gave u hypertension my b/p would be 280/170!
Coffee doesn't give u HTN! 😆
@@joanbowden7634
It raises BP to rise and your body to shake. What would you call it?
what's with all the stuff about tipping in America? just because you pay the normal price for something means you're a bad person? get better minimum wage so people aren't so desperate to get extra money.. yes I am dutch (dutch are known for not tipping often) so that might explain but it just seems so stupid that you expect customers to pay extra for food just so their boss doesn't have to pay reasonable money to his employees
Once upon a time, a tip was something you gave for extraordinary service. And then people started underpaying serving staff with the assumption that they'd make it up in tips, which meant that now it was *expected*.
And the kicker? Tipping doesn't actually encourage good service any more. The whole idea of tipping in the US sense is utter bull. People should be paid a proper wage.
I'm not american but I think I can answer your question.
In my country people just tip in restaurants and only if the employee did his job very well and was nice to his customers, but in the United States it doesn't work that way.
It's in their culture and it's something that is established. It used to be only optional and a way to show respect, but now, in some places, the tip comes in the pay check. It's usually 10%,
And you don't really pay that much more for your food. If you spend 20 dollars having dinner for example, it's just more 2 dollars.
Pedro Chaves a 10% tip is pretty bad... 15% is considered "minimum" and you're still considered cheap...18%-20% is a regular tip and 25% is a great tip.
sj burgess Thanks for the information, I have never been in the US. Now that you mention it 25% looks like a lot.
It's not stupid at all. It's just the way of life here. Don't want to tip? Get your food to go. It's that simple.
A riddle I heard maybe 40+ years ago from a waitress in Miami:
What’s the difference between a canoe and a Canuck?
A canoe tips.
Allan Richardson she was probably a lousy waitress, lol, my husband (Canadian) is a very generous tipper, UNLESS the waitress ignores him, basically puts minimum effort into serving and doing her job.
Susana Zeddy This was back in the early 1970s, and Miami got lots of Canadian tourists, some of them not realizing the difference between the restaurants back home and the ones in the States. And others pretending not to understand.
We went to that restaurant regularly back then, and she seemed good to us, so maybe the Canadians she had met were just stingy. And IHOP didn’t attract big spenders.
what keeps our fingernails attached to our fingers and why is it so painful if something gets underneath the nail
That is a damn good question.
The nail matrix holds the nail under the skin facing you. It is hypothesised that the nail is an evolutionary characteristic to help protect our sensitive fingertips. Notice the detail you can sense with the tips of your fingers, you can feel even the smallest textures. Under the nail is the hundreds of nerve endings which are the same nerves that are on your fingertips. When something gets underneath the nail it triggers these sensitive nerve endings, which dramatically amplifies pain.
Oh my fuckin god. Hot as a half fucked fox in a forest fire is about the greatest phrase ever.
MEREDITH ANSWERED!! I've never heard her voice, and I'm ecstatic to know she's actually a real person
Master John Goodfellow would like to visit Mrs. Fubbs' Parlor.
*runs*
Also known as the throbbing python of love or heat seeking moisture missile.
And is never heard from again, having ended up in the spermuda triangle.
The pink torpedo....
"Colder than a well digger's ass on a Klondike" was always my favorite.
Lol. My dad's also.
From the East Coast Navy town... cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey!
Cannon balls used to be stacked on the deck in a brass tray called a monkey, which when cold enough the brass will shrink and the cast iron cannon balls will then roll loose across the deck!
My dad was always busier than a two-peckered billy goat !
5:58 Ham and eggs? I think you missed an opportunity (or is it an obligation?) to put a quarter in the staff pork chop party fund!
"Let's talk about what really matters - *food*"
Said like a true Alabamian!
Question:If someone in China was killed,and someone who was there went back across the international date line,could they say "They were killed tomorrow"?
It still already happened.
Dates are not part if time. Dates are a way of measuring time therefore the date is just a number and has nothing to do with the a curiosa TIME or DAY of death or any other event.
Oh,okay! Thanks for the info.
Inferno8694 plus if someone died in china, then when over the international date line they would have died the day before. meaning when its sunday in china its saturday over the date line so its still at the same time where ever just the dates are different.
Lachlan Sheppard what if you were to like, go the other way man. like seven times. then they would have been killed next week. woah, you would totally have enough time to stop the murder with a whole week.
emoAnarchist wrong because the time zones do not flow -- they repeat.
"Gay" also used to be a beautiful word in English....: now it's meaning is completely lost forever...!
Truman Capote on Johnny Carson, once, saying "Gay". Can you imagine anything LESS gay than homosexuality?
@@pattyann4163 There's nothing gay about homosexuality....!
Hey! I'm gay! P.S.: I'm not homosexual.
Daniel Coetzee ok boomer
@@danielcoetzee5793 And you would know..how? Closet case alert!!!
OMG!!!! It's you I was reading this book you might know, "The Fault in our Stars" and I realized... John Green.... John Green... I know that name... I looked at the back and there was your picture I remembered you mentioning some of your books in your videos. They are absolutely Fantastic!!!! I can appreciate them even more! :3
I love old slang and it makes up a nice percentage of my vocabulary.
This man talks faster than I can listen. I giving up.
Amen
At least you acknowledge that it's your problem, not his.
Apparently his day job is an auctioneer.
The Rageaholic is quicker with a far more extensive vocabulary....
Rowynne, Not at all. If a oerson undertakes to explain something and fails for whatever reason (if this case speaking so fast as many others poibt out). then he has failed. if he were here in person I would walk away. Fortunately, I have a speed control button so I can slow him down. I don't expect at all that you will agree with me, after all your a woman.
I think this was the most entertaining Mental Floss episode to date. I'm all for bringing some of these back; my French Horn playing students will now be known as Pretzel-Benders.
Language lovers may enjoy our video about the often-unlikely origins of some common idioms (including why we "give someone the cold shoulder"): ruclips.net/video/WW5FDhsHkUg/видео.html
What about " Go chase yourself"
Three sheets to the wind.
And you never want to get caught, "Choking Your Chicken".
To be in one's cups, blitzed, blotto, lit, snot-slinging drunk.
And you're right, it can be very embarrassing to be caught choking the chicken, spanking the monkey, pealing the carrot, or self-service.
Are you looking in my window?
Why does my voice sound really stupid on film/video? Does it actually sound like that to ther people? I really hope not, because poor humans...
Yes I'm curious as to this question, although it may be more of a psychological one.
I know just how you feel. I think it's the recording device, but it differs from person to person. Some people sound barely different but others are barely recognisable
He answers this question in the video. Your voice doesn't really sound like how it does in real life. You are hearing your real voice when you listen to a recording of any kind. If you want to know why your voice sounds different in your head then re watch the video but the jist of it is: that anything not in your head will not sound like how you think you sound like.
That's the psychological aspect. But what for people that don't sound the same when on the phone or recorded
You sound different BECAUSE of the physical aspect.
If you were to talk to me right now you will sound the same as on film or recording unless you have recorded in a way that changes your voice.
If you listen to your voice on recording and it sounds different than in your head then you are normal.
Talk right now. As you talk feel your through and behind your ears. Do you feel the vibrations? Those vibrations are also picked up by your ear in edition to the sound waves that you put out. When you listen to a recording of yourself you hear your voice without the extra vibrations. That voice on the recording is how you sound everyday.
The recording doesn't change your voice for other people... your body changes it for you.
You mentioned ham and eggs, but you didn't add to the staff pork chop party fund
You said ham towards the end of the video, but didn't put a quarter into the staff porkchop party fund...
I didn't even realize this was John Green. o_o
Welcome to Nerdfightaria.
Question: Is space named space because of it's space?
We should call it the great closet. Because it’s dark and full of things that we have no idea what they are or where they came from....
It had a much longer name but they ran out of space
@@thedudeabides3058 , that is too much space
What's wrong with saying "moist"?
Deadbeatloser22 Nothing really. It just has a bad connotation which gives it a bad reputation.
Doomsdaywillcome first thing that comes to my mind is a good band, not a bad connotation
Movie quote-"im a big fan of moisture " anyone?... Lol!
3:44 Vulpix! Half-f-----d fox spotted!
***** You're right. You are the true Pokemon master
I'm gonna start using that phrase now.
gotta... fuck... em all?
@@affablevagrant Eevee
Moist.
(Paraphrasing here): "Damp is not a sexy word. Moist is. Think about it like cake. If you go 'oh how's that cake?' and they reply 'It's moist!' you'll go 'oh that sounds quite pleasant' but if they say 'it's damp'..."
-Nerdcubed
3:30 - I'm out of the loop. Why is "moist" a hated word these days?
It ruins their wet dreams and moist nightmares, which is freaking stupid.
I think it's because people think it sounds weird and perverted...
It is, how shall I say, an "erotic" word for many.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moist_(Canadian_band)
People are wimps these days.
Moist is a terrible word
How else are you suppose to describe a brownie or a piece of cake.
Luke O Delicious
MMMMMOOOOIIIISSSSSST
True, so tin-y
Lovely moisssttt
Hiw long is it going to be til they have their staff porkchop party? I'm really starting to wonder.
Derp! I meant how.
Yeah! That would be funny.
You said "ham and eggs"! Staff pork chop party fund!
Personally, if I had to pick just one of these old slang phrases to bring back, it would be "zozzled."
An English girl I was dating used to say “Going to spend a penny” when heading to the bathroom. This was a reference to the cost of using a public restroom in Britain. Taking a powder or powdering you’re nose were also terms for the same thing.
Jim Cannon imagine if the UK adopted the Euro, people would just have to say “I’m just going to Euronate”
There are tons more old-fashioned slang words they could have used, but these were hilarious. I'm definitely going to be using some of these ("Can you PLEASE shut your sauce box while I do my homework?").
frog sticks? really?..... lol, wow thats racist
toward...frogs?
towards the french
olegator5 To the French."Frog" is a derogatory term for the French. (Yes I know French isn't a race, but that is what they meant. )
Dark Red Scorpion How so? The French are white, not racially oppressed.
***** as raymond mentioned, not racist, but derogatory nonetheless. that is what i meant
I'm totally bringing back hotter than a half fucked fox in a forest fire
A long time ago a friend of mine used to say, "Hotter than a four peckered goat in a field of sheep." I don't know where it came from but it was funny to me.
BWHAHAHAHA HILARIOUS
A coworker has a modified version that goes "Hotter than two fat chicks fighting over a chocolate donut in the back of an El Camino ".
You're a "caution "
You are very good at getting a lot of content into your video's and not making it 40 frustrating minutes long, please never change that. Also, just saw the video on SourceFed, never knew you had a few books, I will take a look at them.
Hotter than two rats fornicating in a wool sock. My favorite.
All of the food slang reminded me of something my Grandpa would say. When he would say we should "burn a dog," he meant we should "roast hot dogs".
Phoenix Nest is my favorite.
Christie Beck Mrs. Tubb's parlor is my favorite
Can I play with your Phoenix Nest?
@@soulassassin0g my dude this is tinder, calm down.
Cussing is usually called 'swearing' or sometimes 'saying an oath'. Where does the relationship between foul language and making agreements come from?
Many swear words are actually short forms of extreme oaths, such as "or kill me in this painful way". Also, one of the 10 commandments is to not use God's name etc. in oaths that you don't really mean that seriously. Thus it becomes a double sin to lie in court after swearing to God with your hand on the Bible. From this, the ban on swearing has been gradually extended to cover bad words that are not oaths at all.
Jeez, saying that "I live in the Netherlands" will always have a strange connotation now. Thanks, John!
"Hot as a half-f**ked fox in a forest fire." That's excellent. I'm bring it back.
Here in the South, it never went out of style.
No 😭
My 86 year old grandpa uses phrases including "that's an if-dog-rabbit" and "crazier than hogan's goat" haha I think we need to bring those back
"If a dog rabbit" saying, stemmed from an old saying from the late 1800's, speaking of the power and diversity of the word, "IF"...IF the dog hadn't stopped to take a S**t, he'd caught the rabbit !"
Wait, you mean 'The Netherlands' one is out of style? I use it all the time!
I usually hear nether regions instead.
"Give Someone the wind".. i thought that mean when you walk by someone and Fart.
Quantum Entangle No, that’s crop dusting.
I always new a limp hand shake as a "wet noodle", not a wet sock
*knew
***** Meh, I don't mind
*****
He corrected his spelling, not his grammar.. said the semantics Nazi.
naota3k You just corrected her on a comment making fun of over correcting, oh irony XD
WASD Games Hence "said the semantics Nazi" at the end of that comment. naota3k was calling themselves a semantics Nazi and pointing out the silliness of correcting someone else's comment that was complaining about someone else correcting yet another person's comment. I probably couldn't have written that in a more confusing way.... XD
What's wrong with this thermostat? If It's not hotter that a half f**c**d fox in a forest fire it's as cold as the hinges of h**l!
He said "doody". Yes, I am immature. Thank you for noticing.
I REALLY like "Hot as a half fucked fox in a forest fire"
frog sticks=French Fries
Another good English dig at the French
Except they are chips in the UK
Same in Australia. We have fries at restaraunts, and at fast food places from the US, like McDonald's, but nearly everywhere else, you get chips.
Except that this is American dialect slang, not British sayings.
@Antony Ruiz . No I didnt?!
@Antony Ruiz . Yep. That sounds like me. Being an english speaker, in england, i just want everyone to speak like me. Just the same as everyone else in the world does.
Hey! Have a nice day. Xx
one of my favorites is COLDER THAN A MOTHER IN LAWS KISS
oh 1950's, how we miss you~
Did you EVER think about being an auctioneer...!? You talk fast enough! and you talk FASTER than I can think & comprehend !!! just like an auctioneer !
THANKS FOR POSTING !
he said ham and eggs and didn't put a quarter in the staff pork party jar!
Imagine going up to a guy and being like
'You should put Master John Goodfellow into my Phoenix Nest'
😏
I like "focus you audio" I'm gonna bring that back.
I agree! I am using that in class! Well, when school starts again....someday...
Vulpix was RIGHT THERE, John!
He counts as a fox, right?
Well, I’ll be a Monkeys Uncle , Heavens to Betsy - haven’t heard any of these since the 60’s
I remember the monkey's uncle slang was used in the 1930s and 40s. For instance in one of The Marx Brothers movies someone would say, "I'm a monkey's uncle!" then Groucho would reply, "Keep your family out of this!"
What's Supposed to be so Bad About The Word,"Moist"?
My mind blowing question is; how/why did humans come up with the concept of ghosts?
This is actually a really good question. I'd love to know the answer. Like is it a physiological reason or a physical reason?
I watched this strictly to see if zozzled would be here.
I was not let down.
(But seriously, can you imagine playing that in Super Scrabble? Like, on the quadruple word score space? Damn. You'd even get a 'z' on the double letter space... Yeah, let's bring that word back.)
I played quizzes 196
Joe Reynolds , My hat's off to you my good man!
"Hotter than a half f**ked fox in a forest fire" I'm going to this one.
old or new, any word ending in "-ed" can mean drunk.
Disagree. "I'm so glad it's Friday. I'm gonna go out get totally waterboarded." Doesn't quite sound right.
Holy shit. I clicked on this video from another website and it didn't show the views it just showed the video and i was thinking ''I bet this video has 800k views'' then I clicked on the title of the video so it could bring me to youtube AND IT HAS 807K VIEWS RIGHT NOW *(807,435 to be exact)* AM I PSYCHIC OR WHAT?!
My Sauce Box wants Frog Sticks!
So does my skull cave...
You might want to use that one very judiciously
I've been using the term "drugstore cowboy" for the last 17 years or so in everyday speech:
it meant a "guy who wandered around town aimlessly and randomly trying to pick up women".
Originally from the 1920's, the reference to "drugstore" here was because the concession and soft drink stands at the pharmacy were actually "hangouts" for anyone who didn't feel like going to the bar.
"The bear got him." I knew someone who used to say, "sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you, and sometimes you both go hungry."
Hobo corollary: (When stealing chickens from the coop) "Sometimes chickens, sometimes feathers."
I seem to recall they said this in "Cool Hand Luke" when one of the men on the road crew passed out from the heat.
" Sometimes the dragon wins"
I don't get why or how anyone could 'thumbs down' any of these videos! (Well, I get HOW someone could 'thumbs down' a video. I do in fact have a basic 3rd grade understanding of human physiology.) This, among I'm sure all of your videos, is gold. I'd like to shake your hand.
Why did the episode count go from 53 to 201?
Second year maybe? Episode 54 is the first episode of the new year. Episode 1 should have been 101...just a guess.
jay towle season 2 episode 01
201
Fancy meeting you here, Guy. I didn't know you also followed Mental Floss.
Oh man, that's pretty neat.
Only a Lumpish; Pasty Witted Corn-Beast wouldn't want to further the advancement of bringing back some good old classic slang!!
I'm gonna bake a cake so moist, girls are gonna be like, "Eww, why you say moist? I hate that word." I'll be like, "Just taste the cake." And they gon' be like, "Damn. It's moist."
For anyone wondering why I'm here, is because I need some people to hit me with phrases and saying that cowboys use in the western days!
So reply to me with a phrase or saying that the cowboys used. That way I can screenshot them and write them down since researching isn't going well for me.
The fact that you have so many amazing channels and you write such fantastic books just blows my. Just
Wow
Praise Bob! Slack!
36) Hotter than a half F****d Fox in a forest fire would be the perfect way to describe mid summer in Johannesburg South Africa.
I been watching this for a year and just realized this is John green the the author of The Fault in Our Stars.
Yup, the same thing happened to me a few months ago. I sorta started freaking out when I realized it... :)
I hadn't heard many of these. But I do like one that wasn't mentioned, "Praying to the porcelain goddess". You can guess what that means! : )
"I just spent some happy cabbage on a bunch of new Amiibo." I think I'm getting the hang of this.
"Hey, watch your sauce box, bub!"
I like the word moist. It can be used to describe food so we'll, like cake. You don't call a cake damp, do you? No, you call it moist.
Also, can we all start calling mouths dick holsters? I heard someone say it one time and I just cracked up.
Really thought "having your flag out" was going to mean something else..because I'm a mature adult.
Re: squiffed, in the UK we still say squiffy to mean drunk!
Gonna go to my local cafè and ask for some dog soup and the direction to Mrs. Fubbs' parlor... Great video!
"Your flag is out!" sounds like something I'd whisper to a guy whose zipper is open!
"A half-fucked fox in a forest fire!" I'm bringing it back!!
How bout "colder than a witch's that in a brass bra", or "colder than a well diggers ass"? My grandparents said these, lol!
my Older Brother's a Zib
Why isn't there a wrestler called the Pretzel-Bender. That would be amazing.
In Ireland we still say Full as a Tick for being drunk, but then again its Ireland and so we have a thousand words for drunk.
We should bring back the phrase "hard-boiled".
3:51 Evee is RIGHT THERE!
You said ham and eggs, but you didn't put a coin in the Pork Chop Party Fund!