Re: not butter, guns
jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:08:58 -0400 (EDT)
My favorite of the euphamisims for vomiting is: technicolor yawn.
For some reason that just throws me into giggles.
Oh, and a few British friends contributed this one, I love as well:
Laughing at your feet.
I just love the visuals these terms inspire.
-j
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, John Smith wrote:
> Camille wrote:
> > Tim having provided an absolutely wonderful
> > definition, can I distract you
> > by
> > explaining the provinance of `chunder'? Chunder is a
> > wonderfully
> > onomatopaeic word used by Austrailans to describe
> > the fine art of vomiting,
> > developed, legend has it, when sailors got seasick
> > and warned to people
> > below `Watchunder!' (kind of like `Fore!' really (:
> > ) Millions more where
> > that came from.
> >
> > Well, they played the same joke on us with Pajero (:
> >
> > Camille
> > verona_beach@geocities.com
> >
>
> Chunder< blar
> k l
> k
> xckxlkdl;
>
> Chunder's a great word, I'll have to avoid chundering
> (now I like it even more, a thunder of chunder) at
> sight of another SUV commercial.
>
> The origin of 'spegunking' is lost in the relics of
> our lexicon landfill, but it's fairly popular across
> Canada. It means, 'to picketh one's nose.' I've yet
> to see it in print, but it's such a nice word that the
> art and sport of spegunking is likely to rise. On a
> related note, spegunking related deaths usually happen
> within five miles of the home. Don't spegunk and
> drive.
>
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