h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I did have one, but that was back in college, a couple-three years before S&O. Still have it, somewhere. Maybe I'll send it to them and see if they'll let it have a cameo.

Doesn't seem to be any New Zealand(kiwi) slang mentioned...I made some notes as I was reading. We call the French frogs/(think it has to do with them eating frogs legs), English=Poms, Americans=yanks. Piss is alcohol..or urinating..which is interesting when u think about it..Booze is alcohol..hence the Boozer being the Pub ..or hotel/bar. A holiday home can be a crib if u are in the South Island, or a batch if u are in the North. Like a bull at a gate..means fast and careless. Smalls are underwear. Bugger is a common expletive, meaning "what a nuisance!" buggered means tired, or confused.. and that is what Aussies and Kiwis get when they ask for "durex" in each others countries ..because in Australia u are asking for cellotape(scotch tape) and in New Zealand u are asking for condoms. And on that note ..catch yahs later

It seems that everyone is getting a kick out of our many slang terms for "vomit", so I guess I'll add one more - "boot - to vomit".

Also, one other common slang term that I hear pretty often - "fumble - to have the opportunity to have sex, but without success due to a (usually drunken) faux pax"

Which leads to "faux pax - something along the lines of 'party foul'; an action at a social gathering which causes the person to bring a negative appearance upon him/herself"

Here's to the pursuit of knowledge...

you're forgetting One clown short of a circus, All foam no beer, and the immortal "The wheel is spinning but the hamster's dead."

Punk rockers tend to have their own vocabulary when it comes to slang. It's not something that can really be recorded because very often the words come out of nowhere. I have heard of a slut being referred to as the Wal-Mart Special, and a bitch as a Catshit. To this day I twitch slightly when I think about it. There are a few words that need to be mentioned though...

Punk: sort of a term for cool. Can be used as a measurement of character, such as, "Man, he's not worth it. He's definatly not punk enough for you."

Punkass: the very extreme of cool. "That Rancid concert was punkass, man!"

Johnny Quest: used in "Johnny Quest thinks you're a..." Words such as sellout, dumbass, or shithead can be inserted. In general "Johnny Quest" is a roundabout way of saying "I".

Mosh: very often the quality of a party, concert, ect. is put in terms of how much one moshed. Such as "Aw, man, I moshed all night." or "Never go to one of her parties. There's no moshing at all." Pretty much means "had a good time."

Snoochie-Boochies: From the movie Mallrats (and Clerks... and Chasing Amy). First employed by the immortal Sweet Jay. There's really no one definition of the word. When used at random intervals in conversation it has the effect of making whoever you're talking to feel that there's some elaborate inside joke you're referring to that they're clueless on. Very effective when used with aging parents. There are also infinate forms of the word, such as Snoobums, Snooch, and Snoochie-Boochie-Noochies.

Johnny Quest explained! I have a Less Than Jake cd with the song "Johnny Quest thinks we're sellouts." I always thought they were ragging on some other band I'd never heard of. Thanks dude.

Don't forget the variant "whattup."

That would give a really interesting spin to the phrase "Root, hog, or die," wouldn't it?

I've lived in California all my life and never met anyone who used the word 'rad' since I was about six years old. When and where did you hear it?

The thing is, 'dude' also means 'guy,' while 'mate' doesn't but does mean 'friend.'

I've heard Californians use 'like' as well as 'all.'

It oughta be 'Il n'est pas facile d'etre vert.'

In Valley speak, these words can be very tricky. A sample conversation can look like this:

"So I go, 'What do you think you're doing?' And she goes, 'What does it look like I'm doing?' And I was like, 'You filthy whore!' So I go, 'I think you'd just better leave now.' And she was all 'Fine, see if I care.' So she took off, and now I'm like 'Seeya!'"

Now the translation:
Like: how you feel, put into words. When the speaker says "I was like..." he's describing what he really wanted to say.
Go, goes: what was really said in the conversation.
All: how the other person feels, usually, as gleaned from body language. Can also be used interchangeably with "like."

Got to be careful with past tense variants of "go," because when you use them with "all" it's another thing entirely:

And he went all Twilight Zone all of a sudden...
...this machine's gone all freaky...

You know.

Though that's for the most part self-explanatory... of course, in actual usage, so's like, goes, all.

In my experience, "like" and "all" can also describe what someone actually said.

In Eastern Washington (and maybe elsewhere, I don't have a car so I can't tell) there's a language oddity that drives me crazy.
"Yeah, he/she/it is!" Observe:

Normal People Conversing:
Person A: She's not pretty.
Person B(disagreeing): Yeah, she is!

Spokanites Conversing:
Person A: That's one hot chica!
Person B(agreeing): Yeah, she is!

Is there a way to keep my friends from doing this without the aid of drugs, or should I decide that it's charming?

Do they say it with the same inflection as normal people would? That's just weird.

Hmm, realize now that it wasn't very clear (it all sounded normal in my head, I swear!).
The inflection is such that someone hearing only the "Yeah, it is!" part would be under the impression that the speaker was violently disagreeing with the preceding statement.

Yeah, that's what I figured...if that hadn't been the case, then I didn't see what would've been weird about it.

Ya'll is a southern USA term meaning 'you' (singular or plural, any tense). It is pronounced as 'yawl', or, in the extremely deep south--Texas, Georgia (say:'jaw-jaw'), and Alabama- 'yaw-wull'.