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Post by Sofia on Jan 19, 2009 19:53:14 GMT -5
xDDD
Okay, now both you /and/ Monkey are evil.
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Post by Anne on Jan 19, 2009 21:39:08 GMT -5
Heh, Funny.
Most people don't even know where the expression Jonesing came from xD Monkey, Nick and Jo certainly hadn't heard of the Jonestown Massacre when I talked about it before. I'm hoping at least one of the rest of you do?
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Post by Sofia on Jan 19, 2009 22:10:30 GMT -5
I don't know why that comic made me laugh so hard, but it did. It's probably because I'm feeling rather ill and more than a little bit knackered.
The Jonestown Massacre was that thing in Guyana in the 70's with the mass cyanide poisonings, right?
*isn't quite sure she's right*
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Post by Monkey on Jan 20, 2009 2:28:32 GMT -5
o_0
Are you sure that's where it comes from?
I thought it was because jones was an old term for heroin. *can't find anything suggesting either*
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Post by Anne on Jan 20, 2009 2:54:51 GMT -5
And a gold star for Nut!
That's where my mum says its from. Who knows '.'
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Post by Mel on Jan 20, 2009 7:12:37 GMT -5
I... don't see the connection between a massacre and the phrase 'jonesing'? =/ I've never heard of it before today either. xDD
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Post by Sofia on Jan 20, 2009 10:42:24 GMT -5
What /I/ thought it is is that "Jones" used to be a term for heroin, so you'd say you were "Jonesing" if you craved heroin. And then eventually it just became craving anything. For example, "Bogarting" was originally in that Grateful Dead song with "don't Bogart that joint my friend," but now you'd use "Bogart" for anything, including talking about Humphrey Bogart. ^_^
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Post by Jo on Jan 20, 2009 10:49:01 GMT -5
I'd never heard of 'Jonesing', either, so... ? Although Josh Gracin does say it in one of his funny songs...
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Post by Uber Loodle on Jan 20, 2009 15:35:17 GMT -5
Jonesing is a new one on me.
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Post by Anne on Jan 21, 2009 3:50:35 GMT -5
You would have heard it, Jo. It's used in Buffy and Angel a couple of times  |
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Post by Mel on Jan 21, 2009 7:28:35 GMT -5
Oh, I get it. xD I've heard of 'keeping up with the Joneses'. ... in some sort of idiom book that was lying around, I think.
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Post by Jo on Jan 22, 2009 5:09:44 GMT -5
No one else has a different time zone for me? We are all closer than I thought.
EDIT: I have a "After I learn to become a sniper in the SAS I will kill you all off from a safe distance and never get caught because snipers and assassins never do really and then I will laugh heartily" list. =]
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Post by Sofia on Jan 22, 2009 16:07:01 GMT -5
xDDDDD
I don't have anything to say.
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Post by Sorie on Jan 22, 2009 18:32:00 GMT -5
I do.  I didn't have any other choice for England, sorry.  And I don't need anyone on the east coast because the math for that is easy. I♥MacDashboard |
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Post by Uber Loodle on Jan 22, 2009 18:32:57 GMT -5
*did that once on the mac at school...then accidentally deleted dashboard*
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