I’ve been lurking on this board for a while, and posting for some weeks, and there are some recurring expressions I just don’t get.
So, what is the meaning of:
- Get of my lawn.
- Hi, Opal.
Please share any others too, if you want.
“Get off my lawn” isn’t SDMB specific, it’s a way to indicate (sarcastically) that the speaker is a cranky old man type, i.e. “Hey you kids, get off my lawn!”
Of course that should be:
- Get off my lawn.
- Hi Opal!
- Hi Opal!
And I think I may love you for setting that up.
AFAIK, “get off my lawn” is the stereotypical “cranky old man yelling at kids” mem. As for “Hi Opal!”, Doper OpalCat once postulated that a list must consist of at least three items. This led to people, when posting a list of two items, making the third item “Hi Opal!”. This has mutated somewhat recently so that any third list item becomes “Hi Opal” regardless of the number of items in the list. haven’t actually seen a Hi Opal for a while, so maybe it’s dying off a bit.
Will somebody please tell me where “asshat” comes from? Or am I being one by asking?
Here’s a blog explosing the etymology of asshat. It literally means someone with his head up his ass. I’ve heard it originated in Sweden.
Thanks! I’ve only ever heard it here on SDMB so I figured someone here had coined it.
You’re welcome 
Gonna have to try this.
- Thank you for the explanations
- And the links.
- Hi, Opal.
I love this! A foundation to combat asshattery!
When I used to work on fighter jets, the kind that have ejector seats, for the air force, we used to exhort certain individuals to pull their alternate release and eject the heads out of their asses.
Now, as an RN we speak of impaired rectal cranial clearance.
The more things change…