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Methos (one half of the HHH Management) Started conversation Mar 19, 2003
Hey, this is a great entry. I didn't even know that there was such a thing as American Dinger Slang which - okay, could have something to do with the fact that I've never been to the United States. 
But it's really fascinating. Like a special language. Wow!
In Germany there are some expressions like that. Like "Strammer Max" for brown bread with ham.
I'm really impressed. 
Methos
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Mar 19, 2003
Thanks It was inspired by several Tom Waits songs 
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Jovive Posted Mar 19, 2003
I'm sitting smack dab in the middle of the U.S. and have never heard this slang outside of movies and television shows, so don't feel bad.
Fabulous article. I think I'll start peppering my speech with these terms just to confuse the heck out of my co workers.
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Methos (one half of the HHH Management) Posted Mar 19, 2003
Yeah, you just want to try some of these phrases out, right? Maybe I should travel to the USA just to do that?
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Ku'Reshtin (Bring the beat back!) Posted Mar 20, 2003
I agree that this is a really excellent entry, and I also had the urge to head off to some sort of 'American' Themed restaurant and order something 'Pittsburghed with frog sticks in the alley and pin a ros on it', just to confuse the hell out of the staff.
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Ku'Reshtin (Bring the beat back!) Posted Mar 20, 2003
Maybe this Diner Slang isn't that dead after all. I just fund somewhat of a tribute to it, at least amongst the quotes from the film "The Emperor's New Groove" (Disney film anno 2000).
Waitress: Ordering! 3 pork combos, extra bacon on the side, 2 chili cheese samplers, a basket of liver and onion rings, a catch of the day, and a steak cut in the shape of a trout! You got all that honey?
Kronk: 3 oinkers wearing pants, plate full of hot air, basket of grandma's breakfast and change the bull to a gill, got it!
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Mar 20, 2003
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Cals_Incitatus (the boorish American) Posted May 30, 2007
"I'm sitting smack dab in the middle of the U.S. and have never heard this slang outside of movies and television shows, so don't feel bad."
You probably won't find that slang 'smack dab in the middle of the U.S.', you're too far north. You want to go South of the middle -particularly in the Southeast.
You can hear that lingo at just about any Waffle House in the South.
Just this past Monday I ordered my hash browns "Chunked, Diced and Covered".
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- 1: Methos (one half of the HHH Management) (Mar 19, 2003)
- 2: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Mar 19, 2003)
- 3: Jovive (Mar 19, 2003)
- 4: Methos (one half of the HHH Management) (Mar 19, 2003)
- 5: Ku'Reshtin (Bring the beat back!) (Mar 20, 2003)
- 6: Ku'Reshtin (Bring the beat back!) (Mar 20, 2003)
- 7: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Mar 20, 2003)
- 8: Cals_Incitatus (the boorish American) (May 30, 2007)
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