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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

447.0. "Throwing." by AYOV18::ISMITH (Recursion (n.): See RECURSION.) Tue Dec 01 1987 14:15

    I was browsing through 'The Traveller's Tool' by Barry Humphries
    yesterday when I discovered a new expression. It was...
    
    To park a tiger (meaning: To be sick).
    
    This got me thinking. There must be many ways to say that you have
    been sick, and here are some that I know.
    
    Technicolour yawn.
    
    Diced carrots.
    
    Talking to Hughie and Ralph.
    
    Barfing.
    
    
    Some amusing ones describing being sick down the toilet:
    
    Driving the porcelain bus.
    
    Talking to Uncle Hughie on the Great White Telephone.
    
    
    
    If you other noters can manage to hold down your lunch, do you know
    any more?
    
    Ian.
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447.1s'more from my college daysLEZAH::BOBBITTa collie down isnt a collie beatenTue Dec 01 1987 17:3513
    woofing your cookies.
    (tossing your cookies)
    
    driving the porcelain bus.
    
    blowing chow.
    
    
    sorry, folks...it's almost lunchtime, I'd better stop here...
    
    -Jody
    
    
447.2being sick - being drunkLEZAH::BOBBITTa collie down isnt a collie beatenTue Dec 01 1987 17:379
    sorry, y'already had the porcelain bus one...
    
    there are also references to "being drunk" in many ways, i.e.
    
    squiffed, shnockered, gone borneo, trashed, $hitfaced, smashed,
    looped, pie-eyed, blitzed, .... (any more?)
    
    -Jody
    
447.342086::GIBSONAlan Gibson @WLOTue Dec 01 1987 18:237
    On having a few too many:
    
         pissed
    
         Brahms (Cockney rhymming slang: Brahms and Liszt = pissed)
                              
    
447.4More throwingDECSIM::HEILMANYou rang??Tue Dec 01 1987 18:262
    Back to throwing, "Praying to the porcelain god" was popular in
    school as I recall.
447.5The connectionRDGE28::BOOTHDeliberately Eclectic CharacterTue Dec 01 1987 19:032
     After getting 'tired and emotional', people often 'paint the pavement'.
447.6'Chunder!!CHIC::PETERSE Unibus PlurumTue Dec 01 1987 20:576
From the land of Oz comes the term "Chunder". It derives from the time when
sailors slept in bunks. An oft heard cry on the way to Botany Bay was: 



	Watch under!
447.7Don't lose it!HOMSIC::DUDEKCall me Dr. BrevityTue Dec 01 1987 22:2811
    Common terms for vomiting include:
    
    upchucking
    losing your lunch
    worshipping the porcelain god (similar to a previous reply)
    visiting ralph
    
                            
    Have a nice lunch...
    
    Spd
447.8Some moreWELSWS::MANNIONYe Diggers all, stand up for GloryWed Dec 02 1987 10:1419
    From Oz
    
    to play the whale
    to go the big spit
    to throw a map
    
    General
    
    to talk to God on the big white telephone
    
    The there's that old favourite
    
    to vomit
    
    I should point out that I only know these terms from hearsay, and
    not from any practical indulgence.
    
    
    Phillip
447.9and moreSAHQ::LILLYACTor in AtlantaWed Dec 02 1987 15:3210
    
    
    revisiting lunch.
    
    While sailing on rough seas I accused my wife of preparing a warm
    meal for the gulls.
    
    The big burp.
    
    
447.10SmoBroHARDY::KENAH37 - I beat Mozart!Wed Dec 02 1987 22:119
    From a decades-old Smothers Brothers routine:
    
    (Imagine, if you will, a strong Eastern European accent)
    
    I dreenk wodka --
    
    If I dreenk too much wodka, I womit!
    
    					andrew
447.11WOOPS!BMT::BOWERSCount Zero InterruptWed Dec 02 1987 23:144
    To be precise it was the Wolga Boatmen (as in the song) who drank
    too much wodka and then womitted in thir boots.
    
    -dave
447.12mal de merDSSDEV::STONERoyThu Dec 03 1987 15:3811
    Re: .9
    
    For those who have problems on a deep-sea fishing trip, it's called
    "chumming".   I can't find it in the dictionary, but it is the 
    practise of strewing attractive morsels of slimey bait around the boat
    in order to coax the fish to sample the bait on the end of your
    hook.
    
    Sort of whets you appetite, doesn't it!
    
447.13ISTG::WARDENI got the 12-Bar BluesThu Dec 03 1987 20:461
Laughing at the carpet.
447.14wow, look at all the peas and chicken !VIDEO::OSMANtype video::user$7:[osman]eric.vt240Thu Dec 03 1987 22:0622
One I remember:

	a four-wall special

Apparently that's what you get if you're so drunk you make absolutely
no attempt to control where your vomit goes.

Of course there's also

	the noser

Very unpleasant experience, but no more explanation needed.

In some notes file somewhere I saw reference to a German phrase.  In
English, we have the phrase "gag me with a spoon", meaning something
is really disgusting.  In German, they concisely say

	zum Kotzen

which translates as "it is to vomit".  Quite concise I'd say.

/Eric
447.15VMS (sic)CLARID::PETERSE Unibus PlurumFri Dec 04 1987 09:347
When your directory is belly-full you can always



	PU/KE
	
				Steve 
447.16A case of PBR fluSAHQ::LILLYACTor in AtlantaFri Dec 04 1987 22:415
    
    
    
    
    Pabst Blue Ribbon
447.17I couldn't resistJOKUR::SMALLERWhy bother?Tue Dec 08 1987 18:401
    Selling the Buick.
447.18A few from my college daysHPSVAX::DMEDEIROSHigh on StressTue Dec 08 1987 19:458
    
    Singing lunch
    
    Spray the chips
    
    Two-way meal ticket
    
    
447.19*Very* old.REGENT::BROOMHEADDon't panic -- yet.Tue Dec 08 1987 22:383
    Shot the cat.
    
    							Ann B.
447.20Berrrrtttt!!AYOU10::CARREYThu Feb 25 1988 15:304
		Making a "pavement pizza".........

			rik................
447.21CALS::GELINEAUWed Jul 21 1993 12:3816
re: a few back

i heard it as "parking the Buick"

also,
	projectile
	yakking
	buttering the toast (comes after getting toasted)
	spewing
	horking (in college we had a "hork board" where the yaks of the 
		residents of our house were rated - points were received
		for location, targets - especially living targets, duration,
		and sheer volume)
	

-- too ashamed to sign
447.22Seasick joke: At first, you fear you will die, then you fear you won't die.RAGMOP::T_PARMENTERThe cake of libertyThu Jul 22 1993 06:495
crying ruth

talking to the weeds

parking the tiger
447.23SMURF::BINDERDeus tuus tibi sed deus meus mihiFri Jul 23 1993 07:475
    On some occasions it's called praying to the ivory god.
    
    Of course, with Wayne and Garth's meteoric rise to fame, it's hurling. 
    Which is not the same as the Irish team sport of the same name, but the
    mind conjures up certain images here...
447.24RAGMOP::T_PARMENTERThe cake of libertyFri Jul 23 1993 08:315
    Sorry about the no-wrap.
    
    Seasick joke:  At first you fear you will die, then you fear you will
    not.
    
447.25Calling Babette!NOTIME::SACKSGerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085Fri Jul 23 1993 08:573
>    Sorry about the no-wrap.

Tom, how about a seasick rap?