It is a meaning of The buck stops here I hadn’t considered before this administration.
The buxx stops here.
Hmm… buxxmaxxing … we have a winner!
Against everything my dear English, English-teacher mother ever taught me, perhaps Merriam-Webster will accept my portmanteau: a word to describe the current Trump administration, its lackeys, supporters, hangers-on and lampreys:
Suxxmaxxing
Did you say “C.H.U.D.”?
Like I had alluded to in the note, English sneers at spelling rules. I blame William the Conqueror.
I saw it once when it came out. So when I see ‘chud’, it’s what I think of. Does ‘chud’ have a different meaning? Or is it a reference to the famous movie.
ETA: Re: Exxon. When I was on the Space Shuttle Support Team, we had a connection to JSC. When they were ready to receive data, and we were ready to send it, we’d ask them to send their exon. IIRC, an ‘exon’ was a ‘handshake’ between computers.
It might have originally been a movie reference, but it’s now a slang term for a fool, jerk, or troll, with a subtext of often being used to refer to right-wingers.
Way back in he early 1980s, I saw it in the theater on Calle Principal in Monterey as the second part of a double feature. The first part was Class of 1984. Those movies rot. Which is kind of fitting given whom we’re discussing in this thread. Cannabilistic Humanoid Underground Dweller is close enough to my favorite Korean insult: Surplus Human (잉여인간/ing-yeo-in-gan).
I remember liking it, and I saw it more than once.
Michael J. Fox was in it!
Really?!? I don’t remember that at all. “Class Of 1984” was one of the cheap flicks I watched at a friend in the early days of the VHS craze, when such fare was frequently circulated. I only remember that I already noticed at that time that Hollywood punks looked different than real punks.
He played Arthur, the trumpet-playing guy who ends up stabbed by the gang and sent to the hospital. Here he is in the middle in a film screenshot.
Got to dig his bowl cut.
Definitely not his “Family Ties” cut. Got lucky to get that role, if only for the improved hair
Looks like a Beatles mop top. Like Paul McCartney in 1964. Out of date for the time. And he looks very young.
Not that you need to know, but it was likely XON (transfer on), paired with XOFF (transfer off). A simple transmission protocol.
Back in my high school computer programming days, I used to write code for fun using BASIC. One common debugging command was “trace on” in order to tell what line of code you were on as the program was running. The actual BASIC language syntax for that command was “TRON”. (And similarly, “TROFF” was the command to “trace off”.) I always assumed that’s where the film got its name from.
But apparently, the name was just truncated from the middle of the word “electronic”, at least according to the writer/director of the film.
Similarly, Exxon’s name origin has nothing to do with “XON”. As stated earlier, it was derived from “Esso”, the older name (which itself was just a phonetic representation of the Standard Oil initials “SO”). In this case, they used a computer to generate hundreds of variations of the Esso name, and then put those various names through different tests, and “Exxon” was the winner. It was very clinical. This comes from a contemporary article in The Business History Review in 1973 (a year after the name change was implemented).
Historical Origins of the Adoption of the EXXON Name and Trademark
In other words, the actual historical truth is boring, but also makes sense when you consider it was a massive rebranding effort for one of the biggest corporations of its day.
In the late 60s, I remember seeing “Enco” as another spinoff of Standard Oil. I was in grade school, so I never understood the explanations grownups gave me.
Standard Oil of New Jersey was a big part of what became Exxon. Some of the other Standard Oils didn’t like having Esso appropriated by just one of them, hence Enco in jurisdictions where those other Standard Oils got the courts to agree with them.
The history of what became of the various Standard Oils is interesting in itself. Sort of like what happened with the baby Bells, though in that case, most of them have re-merged to more or less re-form AT&T
Some of the Baby Bells merged to form Verizon.