Figures of speech

As long as you keep the standards high, we'll be fine.

over egging the omlette..

You can't break eggs without cumming in a chicken's basket first.

I thought that was intentional, though I may be wrong and Will may be a fuckwit

To her is human like the rest of us.

'rest of we', proleblairiat boy.

To her is human like the rest of us.

Ha!

'rest of we', proleblairiat boy.

it's 'buoy' you dim sum

people who pronounce chorizo with ezo instead of the spanish chôriʹthô

Depends where is Spain. I studied Latin American Spanish (which has its roots in Andalusian Spanish, in part) and the 'izo' is pronounced 'eeso.'

I say "no sweat homes" a lot

I believe it's 'holmes.'

how so?

Elementary...?

homes = homie = home boy = boy from my home town, my neighbourhood = someone I know, someone I trust

all there, I've been keepin it real since '83 me

Nah, they're two different words, although the meanings are similar. (They're actually pronounced slightly differently... or were at one time). At least they were in the US.

are you sure?

I've a feelin the "holmes" only came from white middle class American kids trying to be street and getting it wrong..

homes = homie = home boy = boy from my home town, my neighbourhood = someone I know, someone I trust

all there, I've been keepin it real since '83 me

homes = homie = home boy = boy from my home town, my neighbourhood = someone I know, someone I trust

I don't think that's really what homeboy or 'homie' means, either.

well that was the definition given in the glossary of b-boy terms in my 1983 Breakance annual..

are you sure?

I've a feelin the "holmes" only came from white middle class American kids trying to be street and getting it wrong..

To be honest, I'm not so sure I know where 'holmes' comes from... but I grew up in the South in the 80s and went to integrated public (in the US sense) schools, and black kids were the first kids I heard using words like that.

But it might be a different story elsewhere. I figure it's kind of like 'psych' or 'syke' or 'sike' (or however it was spelled)... people just started saying it and soon it seemed like everyone was saying it. And it appears to have happened all over the country.

Must've been the influence of TV or something...

My homes be talkin' 'bout what's on.

Polkatronixx - I'd be interested to hear your derivation of "homes" or "homie" if you don't think mine's right..

well that was the definition given in the glossary of b-boy terms in my 1983 Breakance annual..

I certainly can't argue with that :)

I can't breakdance and I'm whiter than Orville Redenbacher.

Maybe we could try to track down that gun-weilding 'gangbanger*' from that other thread and see what he says.

*when I was a kid, 'gangbang' meant something else entirely

word, I been gangbangin with my homies all afternoon..

Actually, no I fucking didn't!

I was referring to Austrian literary legend Algenon Einstien... known to those of us with brains as the "Godfather of Hyphens"

As opposed to:

Polkatronixx - I'd be interested to hear your derivation of "homes" or "homie" if you don't think mine's right..

Well, my definition would be basically a friend or someone whom you know. Perhaps someone from 'around the way' or whatever. I believe the term started with Chicanos, but I'm not too sure.

I've just never heard it literally broken down to mean 'someone from my home town,' and I've never known anyone to use it that way. But you could well be right... I'm certainly no linguist!

Polkatronixx - I'd be interested to hear your derivation of "homes" or "homie" if you don't think mine's right..

He's clearly a massive fan of Gerry Rafferty...