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May. 4th, 2005 09:41 am"RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: "We Southerners are willing to fight for out rats."
(Today's Southern Word comes from a school teacher in America's
southern most state: Hawaii. As part of her class' study of the "War
of Northern Aggression" (known to Yankees at the "Civil War"), she
showed her class the movie Gettysburg. The students wondered why the
Confederacy was fighting for their "rats." The answer, of course, is
obvious: Southerners have very friendly rats ... in fact, you could
almost say that we have some downright civil rats.)" -Courtesy http://www.mrknowitall.com/jokes/redneck_dictionary.htm
LOL.
That's as bad as the cheetah card Jeremy surprised me with yesterday. ("I'm glad I spotted you")
A sampling of the pearls of wisdom from http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AmericanEnglish :
On American and British English:
"Many little differences in vocabulary. It's no use calling an American a cloth-eared git:-)
Because they wouldn't understand it? How about if Americans call the British "diamond-assed dorkwads" (since in Britain and elsewhere, the term "ass" refers to a donkey. The spelling "arse" refers to the posterior. We don't have the term "dorkwad" in our vocabulary. However, the term "dickwad" would probably make us feel like kotowing in the direction of Redmond, USA). Actually Americans can insult Americans better than anyone. . . "We are gas-guzzling prudish gun-for-dicks secure in our own superiority and moral righteousness while we foist our corporations elsewhere under the guise of spreading capitalism and democracy. We know that even if other countries hate us, they'll come begging when someone's ass needs kicking. Don't forget, we invented freedom, and have been willing to give it up in large amounts to protect it" "
And here I thought I was the only one who'd heard of 'dorkwad' or used it on a regular basis. Ha!
Usage: "We Southerners are willing to fight for out rats."
(Today's Southern Word comes from a school teacher in America's
southern most state: Hawaii. As part of her class' study of the "War
of Northern Aggression" (known to Yankees at the "Civil War"), she
showed her class the movie Gettysburg. The students wondered why the
Confederacy was fighting for their "rats." The answer, of course, is
obvious: Southerners have very friendly rats ... in fact, you could
almost say that we have some downright civil rats.)" -Courtesy http://www.mrknowitall.com/jokes/redneck_dictionary.htm
LOL.
That's as bad as the cheetah card Jeremy surprised me with yesterday. ("I'm glad I spotted you")
A sampling of the pearls of wisdom from http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AmericanEnglish :
On American and British English:
"Many little differences in vocabulary. It's no use calling an American a cloth-eared git:-)
Because they wouldn't understand it? How about if Americans call the British "diamond-assed dorkwads" (since in Britain and elsewhere, the term "ass" refers to a donkey. The spelling "arse" refers to the posterior. We don't have the term "dorkwad" in our vocabulary. However, the term "dickwad" would probably make us feel like kotowing in the direction of Redmond, USA). Actually Americans can insult Americans better than anyone. . . "We are gas-guzzling prudish gun-for-dicks secure in our own superiority and moral righteousness while we foist our corporations elsewhere under the guise of spreading capitalism and democracy. We know that even if other countries hate us, they'll come begging when someone's ass needs kicking. Don't forget, we invented freedom, and have been willing to give it up in large amounts to protect it" "
And here I thought I was the only one who'd heard of 'dorkwad' or used it on a regular basis. Ha!
