Another example of “If you’d worked half as hard at a job as you had at a crime, you’d’ve gone home with more money, and some job skills.”
As a teacher, the version I’d use was “studying vs cheating”…
I thought the proper name was
And it seems that Australia is laying claim to murder noodle, unless Merriam-Webster or the OED steps up.
I’ve heard people at work call snakes “danger noodles”.
Yes, I’ve certainly heard both in the US, I’m not convinced that it’s Australian in origin.
As well as some of your more enterprising scavengers.
Another term I have seen (but not actually heard) is “nope rope”.
My own personal nickname I made up myself is “tail with fangs”.
Well, you can’t expect someone to just wait around forever.
I recall a one-panel cartoon I saw years ago. I don’t think it was a Gary Larson Far Side, but the style was similar.
Anyhow, it’s a US southwest desert scene, with a desiccated partial skeleton laying there in the foreground and a few vultures standing around it looking lean and forlorn. One says: “Patience my ass; let’s go kill something.”
That goes back at least to the early-'70s. The scene is two vultures on a branch.
I had that t-shirt.
I had a brass belt buckle when I was a kid, featuring one of the buzzards with ‘Fly Buzzard Airlines’ around the circumference. I still have it, in the storage unit.
That’s nowhere close to the image I remember, but it’s certainly the exact same idea.
Boy does that artwork have a '70s vibe to it! Wow. Feels pretty darn remote at the same time it feels instantly recognizable. An odd sensation.
I don’t remember the black light poster. This is pretty much the image I remember:
The Far Side image I think of when I think og buzzards is this one:
Those are vultures. Buzzards are
more closely related to hawks.
They are colloquially the same.
You are correct, at least in American English common speech the two terms are used interchangeably, although in reality the two animals bear as much a resemblance to each other as chickens and crows do.
We also call bison “buffalo” and wapiti “elk.”
What do we know?
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