VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 10 days agoSociety keeps changing the definition of normal wordsdiscuss.onlineexternal-linkmessage-square194fedilinkarrow-up11.22K
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minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-29 days ago“Gimme the good old days when a pair of boobs were a couple of dumb guys.” - Sheriff Buford T. Justice Edited to fix attribution. I was sure it was Dangerfield, but DDG says otherwise.
minus-squareArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 days agoBoob or booby to mean stupid still lives on in boobytrap.
minus-squareRoundTheBlockTwice@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 days agoSort of. Boobytrap comes from the seabird the blue-footed booby. A famously stupid seabird that sailors caught in such a trap.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 days ago remember the old days when “tweeting” meant stabbing a hooker? -Norm MacDonald
“Gimme the good old days when a pair of boobs were a couple of dumb guys.” - Sheriff Buford T. Justice
Edited to fix attribution. I was sure it was Dangerfield, but DDG says otherwise.
Boob or booby to mean stupid still lives on in boobytrap.
Sort of. Boobytrap comes from the seabird the blue-footed booby. A famously stupid seabird that sailors caught in such a trap.
-Norm MacDonald