[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]
Mopery dopery doc
I just went out for a walk
Leave me unmolested
Not stopped and arrested
Mopery dopery doc
Okay, it’s lame and doesn’t even technically rhyme. But waddya gonna do?
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Arrest you for Alexander Popery.
Then there’s mopery with intent to commit jiggery-pokery. NOW we’re getting into some serious stuff.
[QUOTE=Evil Captor]
Then there’s mopery with intent to commit jiggery-pokery. NOW we’re getting into some serious stuff.
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Actually, that’s a lot more innoculous than I’d expected.
“Mope”, as in to wander around without a purpose, was a very big offense to my grandmother. We couldn’t just mope around all day. And I heard the parents of my friends use it too. So in the '60s and '70s at least it was in use colliquially on Pittsburgh’s North Side. I always thought it was just one of those Pittsburgh words (gum bands, red up, jumbo (for bologna)), because I knew the exposing oneself to a blind person meaning.
Joseph Wambaugh, perhaps in The Glitter Dome, wrote about cops arresting people for “B & A” (being an asshole.) I had forgotten about that until a couple of weeks ago, when some hip hop star told the Rolling Stone he had been arrested for “being an asshole.” Which rapper? I don’t know, don’t care.
[QUOTE=Loach]
Three days ago I got stuck behind a car doing 30 on a fun curvy country road. It was a Ferrari. Talk about mopery. I should have been legally allowed to carjack him. He didn’t deserve that car.
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Oh yes, about a week ago my husband and I were stuck in a similar situation, behind a guy driving some nice Porsche way too slowly. Worse yet, he obviously sucked ass at driving stick, judging by his driving and the sounds that car was making.