VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 1 month agoSociety keeps changing the definition of normal wordsdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square48linkfedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down11
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minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 month 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-up0·1 month agoBoob or booby to mean stupid still lives on in boobytrap.
minus-squareRoundTheBlockTwice@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoSort of. Boobytrap comes from the seabird the blue-footed booby. A famously stupid seabird that sailors caught in such a trap.
“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.