Colophon:
The original form (and still the correct one, at least here in the UK) is “buck naked”. It seems to have mutated in recent years, in the same way that “off your own bat” is often mangled into “off your own back”.
What does this phrase even mean? Did Brits frequently own carrier bats to deliver messages to one another? So taking one person’s idea for your own would be met with the derisive comment, “You clearly didn’t develop that proposal off you your own bat”–meaning “You’ve been intercepting other peoples’ carrier bats and reading the messages!”
Brits are weird.
Inigo_Montoya:
Colophon:
The original form (and still the correct one, at least here in the UK) is “buck naked”. It seems to have mutated in recent years, in the same way that “off your own bat” is often mangled into “off your own back”.
What does this phrase even mean? Did Brits frequently own carrier bats to deliver messages to one another? So taking one person’s idea for your own would be met with the derisive comment, “You clearly didn’t develop that proposal off you your own bat”–meaning “You’ve been intercepting other peoples’ carrier bats and reading the messages!”
Brits are weird.
Cricket bat. But I’m sure you guessed that.
Looey
September 15, 2010, 7:59pm
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I wish I could remember the comedian’s name who described the difference between naked and nekkid.
Naked means y’ain’t got no clothes on. Nekkid means y’ain’t got no clothes on… and yer up to somethin’!
You’ve got to be kidding. It’s George Costanza’s porn name!
Looey:
I wish I could remember the comedian’s name who described the difference between naked and nekkid.
Naked means y’ain’t got no clothes on. Nekkid means y’ain’t got no clothes on… and yer up to somethin’!
It was Jeff Foxworthy, and it’s the other way around: nekkid is simple nudity.
In other news, “buck naked” is the original and “butt naked” is a later misrendering.
Actually I just stopped by to see why this thread had 47,000 views. I still don’t know.
saje
September 16, 2012, 10:20am
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And this is the second time it’s bee resurrected.
Looey:
I wish I could remember the comedian’s name who described the difference between naked and nekkid.
Naked means y’ain’t got no clothes on. Nekkid means y’ain’t got no clothes on… and yer up to somethin’!
jepflast:
It was Jeff Foxworthy, and it’s the other way around: nekkid is simple nudity.
In other news, “buck naked” is the original and “butt naked” is a later misrendering.
Actually I just stopped by to see why this thread had 47,000 views. I still don’t know.
Lewis Grizzard , actually. Looey had it the right way 'round.
double zombie or no
nekkid is in the same vein as naked.
Chefguy
September 16, 2012, 2:11pm
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Ringo:
And I’ll note that a google search on both phrases turns up quite a few “vain” usages, none of which make much sense. I suppose, maybe , if you were comparing a couple of prima donnas…
Or, as one of my employees wrote, a pre madonna. I guess that would have been Cher.
Goddamn it, suckered into the same zombie thread…again!
are both in the same vein.
Chefguy
September 16, 2012, 4:26pm
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AAAUUUUUGGHHHH!! ::falls on floor in a Belushi fit::
Kenm
September 16, 2012, 5:48pm
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“Humor in a jugular vein” — Mad
man that brings back memories
I never saw this coming down the pipe.
Dr. Paprika wins! (See his post in 2003).
The actual first use in literature of “in the same vein” is indeed an American mining expression.
To wit, in underground rock layers gold is found running in veins. So is silver. Sometimes there will be a slight admixture.
Thus, the miner’s query, “Is it gold?” answered by, “I don’t know, but it is running in the same vein.”
Musicat
October 4, 2013, 11:04pm
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Munch:
Triple zombie!
I’m afraid, Sir, that your exclaimed protest is in vain.
