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Percy Member Posts: 19102 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 3.2 |
I didn't get the Dexter reference, nor why it led to Decadent Cookies, nor why one might imagine Decadent Cookies with dead flies for chocolate chips, nor the confusion with decedent.
--Percy
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ringo Member Posts: 17671 From: frozen wasteland Joined: Member Rating: 3.2
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Latin "right" = "dexter; Latin "left" = "sinister". The dog Dexter shows sinister behaviour (decapitating saints).
One example of illiteracy reminded me of another.
Decadent means "decaying". The Communists used to call Western society "decadent", meaning decaying, but (some) Westerners have taken to using "decadent" as if it was a good thing - i.e. luxurious. (The flies don't have to be dead.)
I have no idea about that either. I meant what I said.
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RAZD Member Posts: 20329 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: Member Rating: 3.6
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caffeine Member Posts: 1731 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: Member Rating: 6.0 |
Since you seem to be confused about the definition of 'decadent', I'll assume you're equally confused about what 'illiteracy' means. 'Illiteracy' usually refers with to the inability to read or write, or to a mistake in language usage that implies the former. It does not, as you imply, mean 'using a word in a way that has been commonly accepted usage since before I was born'.
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ringo Member Posts: 17671 From: frozen wasteland Joined: Member Rating: 3.2 |
![]() I was refering to the general misunderstanding of the other meaning.
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I thought you were referring to that TV show 'Dexter'. Its about a serial killer or something.
Decadent means sinful, like, these cookies are so good its a sin to eat them.
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ringo Member Posts: 17671 From: frozen wasteland Joined: Member Rating: 3.2 |
I've never seen it. That Dexter would also be sinister.
That's a secondary definition. Making sin a good thing is also a secondary definition of sin.
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ringo Member Posts: 17671 From: frozen wasteland Joined: Member Rating: 3.2
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This joke was told to me by a nine-year-old girl, so hopefully I won't have to explain it:
A woman sits down on a bar stool in an agitated state and says, "Tenderbar, tenderbar, give me a tinimar! I have terrible burnheart!"
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 4787 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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I don't get it. Is she chinese or something?
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ProtoTypical Member Posts: 1793 From: Ontario Canada Joined:
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No, I think that Low Brow is a reference to her being of Neanderthal descent and of course "Tenderbar, tenderbar, give me a tinimar! I have terrible burnheart!" in Neanderthal means " Jesus fucking Christ my tits are on fire!" I am not sure where the 9 yr old girl fits in.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 4787 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
Uh, I didn't know they had chinese neanderthal. Learn something new every day around here.
What I want to know is what the hell is a 9 yr old doing in a bar this late at night?
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Theodoric Member Posts: 6887 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2
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Must be Wisconsin. Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
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ProtoTypical Member Posts: 1793 From: Ontario Canada Joined: |
Well its only a quarter past 7. She probably doesn't have any homework.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 3868 Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
The main requirement for the build-up is that at least the first two words need to be wrong. When my mother told it to me 50 years ago (after every Elks event, she'd always repeat the off-color jokes she had heard), they were "beertender" and "martooni". No need to garble "heartburn" since it's a different mistake that's involved. To that nine-year-old's credit, she wasn't familiar with how booze can garble speech. But it looks like she might be a fast learner.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 4787 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
Excuse me but a kid after school in a bar cavorting with a chinese neanderthal with hot tits is a bit too fast for one so young. And no homework? On a school night? Where is child protective services in all this? What kind of society are the canucks running up there? And now they want to operate the north pole? Preposterous! Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.
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