Post by 1dave on Jul 2, 2014 22:52:26 GMT -5
Thanks, guys. Dave, what is gznaznic?
Tip of the iceberg, didn't even touch on the welding equipment yet!
I introduced that term some time back (Nov 27) with Shotgunner.
Gznaznic! (my invented high school exclamation word)It was found in the wilds of the Wah Wah Mountains of western Utah, so let it henceforth and forever be knighted throughout the realm as WahWah Jasp/agate, or that @*#!!
Gznaznic Jasp/agate if you prefer. I hope it doesn't turn out to be a heart breaker.
Nov 27, 2013 19:56:36 GMT -5 @shotgunner said:
Gznaznic - pronounced Guz-naz-nik - etymology - word invented by 1dave to be the form of an exclamation -
Definition - Generally said loudly and with excitement, this fanciful work is generally used in utterance of joy.
Gznaznic
Followed up by a thread on Cussing.
Attitude is Everything!
Preferred swear words tell a lot about individuals and societies, what they respect and what they don't.
Is sex sacred or profane?
"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." So many do.
Way back when dirt was new, I strove to be "one of the guys" and copied their mode of speech.
One of those intemperate words slipped out in Sunday School class with a girl I thought highly of -my first true love.
I vowed to never swear again.
Bad things happen and demand vocal exclamations!
I found some new ones: gizmo, and trinket (the latter reserves for only the worst situations)
As explained by Pavlov, "Any meaning can be attached to any stimulus."
Good things happen and I (as previously mentioned to Scott - @shotgunner -) I came up with gznaznic.
I was set!
- until one evening a gentleman pulled into the service station I was working at.
"Check the oil" he requested.
He was a quart over.
"I thought that was strange adding it at the last station. Would you please take it out?"
Fool that I was, I had him pull over the grease pit, climbed down with an empty quart can, loosened the drain plug and watched, seemingly for hours, as a fine hair of oil seep[ed into the can.
I loosened the plug a little more, then more . . . suddenly the plug fell into the main drain pan and oil shot across the bay.
How hot does engine oil get? Somehow I got the plug back into place.
Red armed, I climbed out of the pit and heard the gentleman say:
"Young man, I have never heard such language in my life! You should be ashamed of yourself!"
I was.
I do use swear words, but only when they are EXACTLY what I mean. Otherwise I avoid them like the plague.
I worked with a guy who used the "F" word as every third word.
Finally, one day I told him that he had picked an unusual form for his "DUH" word.
That is how I see it. Agree? Disagree?