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What’s the meaning of all this?
by Mary - October 10, 2006 - 9:56 AM

I’m sure our resident high-five giver, Jason, won’t mind if I offer up his services to the first person who can tell me (a) what the following common words and phrases all refer to and (b) who we heard them from. Hint: Despite the first word on the list, it’s not Snoop Dogg.

  • pizzle
  • carrot
  • den
  • bird’s nest
  • constable
  • horsemanship
  • tillage
  • plum
  • billiards
  • thump
  • the Netherlands

Also, super-bonus points to the person who tells us what “nose-painting” is.

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Comments (7)

  1. Mary Poppins. Nose painting is when two fighter jets/airplanes initiate a training session by flying full speed at each other only to break course at the last second. Fight’s on!

    posted by Andrew on 10-10-2006 at 10:21 am

  2. All the terms deal with the sexual organs or act. William Shakespeare is the author. Nose painting means to get drunk. I believe the gatekeeper from Macbeth uses the term.

    posted by Joe on 10-10-2006 at 11:11 am

  3. i am just freely associating here: nose painting … painting with booger … Popelismus!
    http://magnusthelife.blogspot.com/2006/05/bogey-life.html
    (and more recently posted: http://magnusthelife.blogspot.com/2006/10/documented-life.html

    posted by magnus on 10-10-2006 at 11:13 am

  4. Jason, please give Joe a huge high-five! And bonus points in a manner of your choosing; I would suggest a chest-bump a la football, or perhaps rumple of the hair.

    posted by Mary on 10-10-2006 at 12:06 pm

  5. Haha Pizzle has been the threat of choice among my friends and I for a good two years. I am glad to see it is getting some more thought provoking use then our crass banter.

    posted by Jarred Hanson on 10-10-2006 at 4:40 pm

  6. heh. The origins would be from the famous plays of old Billy Shakespeare. He’s not only famous for his plays and sonnets, but for the countless double entendres for sex and the like. it’s kind of funny really. Prudish book-burners BEWARE!

    posted by Heather on 10-10-2006 at 7:59 pm

  7. Sorry to leave you hanging. Up top, Joe. And while I’ll do my best to make it look cool, an unnatural white-guy five is unavoidable.

    posted by Jason on 10-10-2006 at 9:54 pm

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