It means, “that’s disgusting.” Used when you think something is disgusting. Like, “Ohmigosh, my sister in law is preggers and, she’s, like craving hot fudge sundaes topped with tuna salad. Like GAG ME WITH A SPOON.”
The 2013 version of “gag me with a spoon” is “I just threw up in my mouth a little.” Both phrases indicate that something is disgusting enough to induce vomiting.
Uh, I believe the question was already answered eight years ago.
Fer sure, fer sure.
Since the question was answered eight years ago and no new information has been provided, I am closing this.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
More like 30.
Okay, as long as this thread is re-animated . . .
The Wiki link for VALGOL is defunct. But VALGOL also gave us the “California Booleans”, fersure and noway.
For years, I always #included in my C programs:
#define FERSURE 1
#define NOWAY 0
and used them accordingly throughout my programs.
One of my favorite entries in the Bulwer-Lytton “Dark and Story Night” contest is:
Didn’t it used to be standard procedure to use a spoon to keep someone having an epileptic seizure from biting or swallowing their tongue? So “gag me with a spoon” translates as “I’m having an epileptic fit. A little help please.”
That’s weird. I got an email notification that this had been closed by Colibri.
But the post is nowhere to be seen here.
Not as I recall. I do remember epileptics carrying unsharpened pencils for just such an eventuality, but the phrase in question clearly meant “use a spoon to initiate the gag reflex, press down on the back of my tongue to induce vomiting.”
That’s what the spoon is for.
No, never. Some unenlightened first responders used to (still do?) carry “bite sticks” to prevent tongue-biting, teeth-clashing, etc., but spoons would be very bad for this, as they’d break the teeth. This practice does nothing to prevent tongue-swallowing, and is frowned upon by the medical establishment*, as evidence indicates that “bite sticks” accomplish nothing for epileptics, and increase the risk of vomiting and/or injury. I’d not be surprised if someone used a spoon for this, but not as a standard practice.
*“Medical establishment” as represented by my EMT instructors and the manuals I used as a Red Cross instructor.