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#50459
12/21/2001 1:25 AM
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old hand
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I'd like to compile a list of phrases used to describe the alpha being of a group.
My all time favourite is one I heard Zig Ziglar use (I presume it's a good ol' boy saying?) - "The Daddy Rabbit"
Also have:
The Big Knob
The Grand Poo Bah
The Head Sharrang (etymology??)
The Big Cohuna
The Big Cheese
The Main Man
The Man (or M.A.N.)
What about some female examples?
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#50460
12/21/2001 1:39 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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just a note -- I believe that the Big Kahuna comes from the personification of the Hawaiian word kahuna into the god of surfing and thus should be properly spelt in that manner.
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#50461
12/21/2001 1:55 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Onliest female one I can think of off hand is Boss Lady.
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#50462
12/21/2001 1:58 AM
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Head Honcho (or Honchette)
BMOC (Edit: BMOC = Big Man On Campus)
Capo de Tuti Capi
Mush Dog
Bell Camel
Leader of the Pack
Bull Male
Boss Man (or Big Boss Man)
Top Banana
on the feminine side:
Belle of the Ball
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#50463
12/21/2001 2:38 AM
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old hand
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Keiva - "BMOC" ????????????
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#50464
12/21/2001 3:06 AM
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#50465
12/21/2001 3:40 AM
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Can anyone confirm that US black-slang used to include the term HNIC, standing for "Head Negro in Charge"? ("negro" being here a more-polite version of the word actually used)
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#50466
12/21/2001 12:54 PM
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journeyman
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journeyman
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One used in the military a lot: HMFIC. Head Mother-f***er In Charge.
Cheers,
Bryan
You are only wretched and unworthy if you choose to be.
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#50467
12/21/2001 2:31 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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The Alpha ______ (fill in the blank; Wolf is the original version)
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#50468
12/21/2001 2:46 PM
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The Alpha ______
I've pertnear allus seen that blank filled in with Male, the wolf or whatever being assumed from the species of discourse. Even in the case of humans the term has always been Alpha Male. However I have also seen Alpha Female as we slowly have come to discover that some species are matriarchal, e.g., an elephant herd will have an alpha female. In some cases there will be a hierarchy of females even in a patriarchal species and there will be an alpha female in those species. This can get complicated by the tendency of some patriarchal species to have the alpha female get her power from her relationship with the alpha male and in vice versa in some matriarchal species.
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#50469
12/21/2001 2:55 PM
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addict
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Keiva asked: Can anyone confirm that US black-slang used to include the term HNIC, standing for "Head Negro in Charge"? ("negro" being here a more-polite version of the word actually used)
Indeed, this is true. There was a recent uproar when an article in Boston magazine about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was titled "Head Negro in Charge." Many objected to the obvious (to some) paraphrase of a very insulting and denigrating moniker.
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#50470
12/21/2001 5:18 PM
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Wife
(and I have Peggy's permission to post this!)
TEd
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#50471
12/21/2001 5:33 PM
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Wife As in SWMBOŽ (ask CapK)  of course, with Faldage, I let him think all the good ideas are his.....
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#50472
12/21/2001 10:29 PM
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Better half.
This isn't very specific®, is it?
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#50473
12/24/2001 4:39 PM
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journeyman
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journeyman
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When i was a kid it was Big Sister
I have heard a woman in charge being called "the Queen Bee"
the Duncster
the Duncster
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