quote:Originally posted by JFB #05177:quote:Originally posted by PanteraDoug:..\
I learn sumtin' newz almost everyday?...
While I think I have learned a LOT automotive related, there has been some eyeopening about other things.
It took me a while and google to get the "brown sugar" / LSD comment, but I still haven't figgered out the "fridge" referance
while "Kentucky Windage" is implied to be derugatory, it is actually implies impressive knowledge in the application of advance physics and mathmatics with out the add of devices
It was thought that LSD was stored on sugar cubes in the '60s. It was joked that if one was let's say, "one of the beautiful people" like Dick Shaun's character in "The Producers", that it might be significant to inform house guests that sugar cubes in the refrigerator, a.k.a., the "'frige", were not kept there to sweeten one's coffee?
...AND that hopefully "unknowing" people didn't have a "sweet tooth" in fear that if they took two or three sugar cubes in their coffee that they possibly may NEVER "come down"?
It was also "joked" in "Where the Buffalo Roam", by Hunter Thompson, that "Richard Nixon was seen doing cannonballs in the hotel swimming pool with "stewardess'" and that it was probably due to the fact that he took a "hit" of "brown LSD sugar cubes".
It was "rumored" that if left in the sun to turn "brown", the LSD had extra psychedelic "enhancements".
As far as being derogatory towards Kentucky, not necessarily so.
Now having said that, and acknowledging the fact that fortunately or unfortunately I am a native NY'er.
Snicker if you will, but in fact some of these sarcastic remarks that I make are in fact intended to be self defecating in a sense to give others a laugh, even if it is at my expense? Also attempting to apply the sarcasm in a manor of Hunter Thompson without his grace or license often gets me in deep do-do too. I'm in it to begin with most of the time so I figure what the heck?
There was in fact once a "weighted map of the world" published by the New Yorker magazine which showed NYC as approximately 99% of the world and the rest of the entire world at 1%.
It was intended as again, a self-defecating joke about NYC and the New Yorker magazine itself.
Now for lack of a better term, there is a friction, between east coast "guys" and "west" coast guys.
Most of the time it is just stated as "the right coast, and the wrong coast", and that's the end of it.
Now having said all of this, and admitting it all, that it is in fact INTENDED as a joke where people can laugh or even laugh at me, sometimes there are just bad jokes made.
IF that is the case, then I offer my apologies. I am sorry Mrs.Teacher, I will never speak in your class again.