I know a guy who works there. He thinks it’s pretty funny and I got the feeling they know the slang.
There also used to be a law firm of Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis that had the website bdsm.com. They sold it to a, well, bdsm site and now they are burnsdoane.com.
Mangetout, yea, I know it doesn’t have the same letters. You have to imagine an urban teen slurring their words (similar to the ‘jeet’ = ‘did you eat’).
perhaps it’d help if you heard the entire phrase as it was used (mostly) when I heard it:
“mo-fo-ho” ?
otherwise just put it down to those crazy 'Mericans.
I always thought it had its roots in jive talk from the 1970s … “Jive-ass mofo ain’t so slick as he think!”
I didn’t know what it meant until about a year ago. Although, now I seem hear it all the time (not always directed at me, fortunately). The U2 song “MoFo” makes so much more sense now.
I’m Australian, FWIW.
Still one of my all-time favorite pages on the web. I’m sending this out to all you Mofos in tha hood.
Sample clip and translation from Airplane.
That is some good stuff Scott. I actually used to know a woman who was an insurance adjuster named Robin Chetum. That was her married name and I don’t believe that she planned it.
Robin has a great opportunity, a son named Dewy Chetum. How gold is that?
As soon as I read thru the OP I had an image of Samuel Jackson picking a lawyer.
“Which lawyer is yours Mr. Jackson?”
“The one that says Bad MOFO.” Though I can’t decide if it should be Pulp Fiction style or with a back up group saying shut your mouth afterwards.
Wring -
You have hit upon my favorite noon-time conversation here in Texas:
TX1: Jeet Jet?
TX2: Notch Jet, Ju?
TX1: Sko-weet!