# Jersey Shore is trending now? Are you f'n kidding me.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jersey-shore-is-trending-now-are-you-fn-kidding-me/575890>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 24, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jersey-shore-is-trending-now-are-you-fn-kidding-me/575890 "2011-03-24T21:32:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jersey-shore-is-trending-now-are-you-fn-kidding-me/575890/21 "2011-03-26T17:05:33Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> I just found her on [Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxdGm0j_A5M). That was old style roasting, and was 100% hilarious. She got the setup perfect, rather than just saying something mean like a lot of the comics today do. And her “interpreter” had impeccable timing.
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> Unfortunately, Gottfried, while okay, did not quite measure up. He went on too long with the negative. And that took the sails out of Matlin’s last joke.

Yeah I was not a big fan of the Gilbert Gottfried part. But the whole, “I too have never heard the sound of laughter”? Holy shit that was good.

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jersey-shore-is-trending-now-are-you-fn-kidding-me/575890/22 "2011-03-26T17:28:37Z")

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I caught part of a _Bones_ episode – don’t know if it was new or a repeat – but the dead guy was a “Guido” whose death occurred at a Jersey Shore party. I was ashamed on behalf of the writers.

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**Author:** ![SweetLucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jersey-shore-is-trending-now-are-you-fn-kidding-me/575890/23 "2011-03-26T22:58:10Z")

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Snooki is one ugly little troll :eek: I guess the only way someone so sleazy and ugly can get famous is to be in a stupid reality show.

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**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jersey-shore-is-trending-now-are-you-fn-kidding-me/575890/24 "2011-03-27T00:06:51Z")

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> [@ralph124c](#):
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> -(for British Dopers) An english friend once told me that “Trump” is British slang for “fart”-is this true?

Yes, at least in the part of England I’m from. Most commonly used by children.

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**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jersey-shore-is-trending-now-are-you-fn-kidding-me/575890/25 "2011-03-27T01:21:30Z")

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> [@ralph124c](#):
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> Questions:
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> -(for British Dopers) An english friend once told me that “Trump” is British slang for “fart”-is this true?

> [@Kal](#):
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> Yes, at least in the part of England I’m from. Most commonly used by children.

Short for “trumpeting”, I presume? That’s what my friends and I called it, 25 years ago…

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