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BranShea #177978 07/05/08 03:06 AM
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 Originally Posted By: BranShea
Coyote, read my signature!

"In the End, the Shadow is but a passing thing..." (JRRT)

The Pook #177985 07/05/08 09:19 AM
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Beware of creatures that cast no shadow in the sunlight.

BranShea #177986 07/05/08 11:50 AM
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 Originally Posted By: BranShea
Beware of creatures that cast no shadow in the sunlight.


Or at least go with a level 8 vegan.

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Just saw Kung Fu Panda. Po (voiced by Jack Black) uses the exclamation, "Skadoosh!" at a very pivotal point in the story (no plot spoilers here). Google took me to the Language Log, where it turns out... well, if you're interested, you can read it here.

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In today's Boston Globe it's my honor to pinch-hit for a vacationing Jan Freeman, who writes a fantastic weekly column called "The Word." I took the opportunity to write about a word popularized by the new movie "Kung Fu Panda": skadoosh. Or is it skidoosh? Or maybe skedoosh?

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an obvious riff on (or ripoff of) squadoosh

-joe friday

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 Originally Posted By: tsuwm
an obvious riff on (or ripoff of) squadoosh

-joe friday


Or either that or a portmanteau of that and the LL proffered (23) skidoo, one.

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 Originally Posted By: tsuwm
an obvious riff on (or ripoff of) squadoosh

-joe friday


squadoosh Italian-American slang used to describe something that is missing, absent, or forgotten; zero, nil, nothing

That fits the context in which it was used.

Hydra #178020 07/06/08 07:22 AM
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 Originally Posted By: tsuwm
an obvious riff on (or ripoff of) squadoosh

-joe friday


squadoosh Italian-American slang used to describe something that is missing, absent, or forgotten; zero, nil, nothing

That fits the context in which it was used.


that's what made it so obvious to me!

-ron o.

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Have you seen the movie then?

Hydra #178026 07/06/08 09:35 AM
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no, but I read the title.


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