I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
Eat my shorts!
I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.
Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?
A lot of my friends at home call me 'Chef G.'
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.
My songs have some street talk in them, but that's the way I talk and the way a lot of people I know talk.
That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.
I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'
Oh, this I have to see. I love it when you go for the vernacular. Jugular.
The one thing that no Anglo-Saxon can stand is to be ruled by someone who 'talks fancy' by using Latinate words too often.
And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.
In the south there's a difference between 'Naked' and 'Nekkid.' 'Naked' means you don't have any clothes on. 'Nekkid' means you don't have any clothes on and you're up to somethin'.
I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.
Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.
A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.
Well, I've never dropped the word 'eh.' That's still at the end of my sentence, replacing the question mark.
Gag me with a spoon!
See, my strumpf is in my hair. Now, I don't know what strumpf means. It's just a term some brothas gave me.
She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
I think the medical term for the injury is 'the bottom of my ass hurts.'
The name Hot Boys was based on a time in New Orleans where if you were really doing something or if the police were looking for you, people would be like, 'He hot. That boy hot.'
I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.
In baseball, there's certain things you can call someone: a fossil, graybeard, grandpa, dad, pops. But I got a chance to say it and mean it.
