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#82661 10/03/02 02:02 PM
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Test your current cultural awareness. Can you define these terms? (I’ll post answers later)

Ego wall

Golden ghetto

Minds-on

Hillbilly heroin

Wallet biopsy

Metrosexual

Anus envy

Bed blocker

Bridezilla

Big hair house

Bozo explosion

Trustafarian


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I am not cool, so I will post my un-cool first mental responses to your list, Sparteye:

Ego wall...........a wall of mirrors used in a ballet or dance studio

Golden ghetto........a ghetto in San Francisco near the Golden Gate Bridge

Minds-on..........Awake?

Hillbilly heroin........Moonshine?

Wallet biopsy...........Paying with credit cards?

Metrosexual.......Hmmmm.....someone who picks up people for sexual favors on the Metro?

Anus envy.....Good grief! I don't even want to consider this one.

Bed blocker......Venereal disease

Bridezilla....Well, it must be the Bride of Godzilla

Big hair house.....beauty salon?

Bozo explosion.........A clown being shot out of a cannon at Barnum and Bailey

Trustafarian..........I have no idea, but I'll bet I'm one.



OK. That should prove that I am the uncoolest of everybody here on this board.


Square regards,
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#82663 10/03/02 03:39 PM
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Ego wall

Golden ghetto= a gated community, especial one for the elderly

Minds-on= attentive.

Hillbilly heroin= Oxicodine? a timed released pain killer, that if you grind the pills up, stops being timed released, and gives you a heroin like high..

Wallet biopsy= really big ticket item, like the new sony 'home entertainment center with a flat screen tv that sells for $25,000(yeah, that right, more than some homes in rural US!)

Metrosexual

Anus envy

Bed blocker

Bridezilla

Big hair house= what the "sopranos" live in, or of the same style

Bozo explosion

Trustafarian
i am not sure of some of the others, but some are new to me...


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The only one that rings a bell for me, on this side of the atlantic, is bed-blocker, which is a term for a geriatric patient who should be in a care home but can't go because there aren't enough places, therefore stays in the hospital, which also hasn't enough places, therefore people with non-urgent conditions (sometimes even those with urgent problems) can't get a bed in the hospital.


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Ego wall – New Guinea expression, means he’s gone to prison

Golden ghetto – community of pop stars living on right hand side of Golden Square in Aberdeen

Minds-on – response given by “flat-nose” Kelly on hearing that his accomplice’s torch had gone out

Hillbilly heroin – the kind of female goat all the mountain men look up to

Wallet biopsy – Letlaw was a cold war spook noted for his dyslexia. This was the title of his recent book about his experiences

Metrosexual – measurement of length in genital units

Anus envy – emotion felt by Barbie fancier on regarding Ken

Bed blocker – cheerleader’s ambition

Bridezilla – TV programme anchored by Zilla Black. Starts where Blind Date leaves off

Big hair house – any Dynasty mansion with doors big enough to take power shoulders

Bozo explosion – almost the beginning of the dog doo da band

Trustafarian – anyone who does things in a backassward fashion



#82666 10/05/02 08:33 PM
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Ego wall - a wall on which someone has hung his degrees, certificates and awards, as well as photos of him with famous people.


#82667 10/06/02 04:28 PM
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Hillbilly heroin Oxycontin, the trade name for an extended-release version of the generic opiate Oxycodone, which is also the mild narcotic found in Percocet (Oxycodone + Tylenol). The term Hillbilly heroin arose because there is a problem with addiction (and all its related criminal activity) to the drug among people in the Appalachian areas of West Virginia and Kentucky, Hillbilly being the derogatory term for this group of persons.

Wallet biopsy The process by which hospitals and physicians and other health service providers check to see if a person has health insurance. The patient was scheduled to have a triple bypass operation, but after they failed the wallet biopsy they were transferred to the university hospital.




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Hillbilly being the derogatory term for this group of persons.

Unless, of course, you *are a hillbilly.

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Big Hair House - The home of the bride on her wedding day in Schaumburg, Il.

Trustafarian - A mid level rasta obtained by learning to not bogart.


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Ego wall – one's mother, through which no insults nor reality shall pass

Golden ghetto – where the trustafarians live

Hillbilly heroin – ketamine

Wallet biopsy – the unconscious calculations of an upwardly mobile woman on her first date

Metrosexual – the self obsessed intricate couplings of the modern urban twentysomething

Anus envy – the implausible hatred some straight men have towards out and proud queers

Bed blocker – unpleasant side effects of a new cholestoral pill

Bridezilla – the remake of the sequel to the prequel of the remake of a classic b movie ( think Hong Kong New York fusion, New Kong)

Big hair house – 'mainstream-drag' house music, as extemporised by G.A.Y nightclub and similar

Bozo explosion – MTV generation spawning their own little beavis and buttheads
Trustafarian – bedreaded boys and girls whose alternative lifestyle is funded by daddy's trust fund




#82670 10/06/02 09:41 PM
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Golden ghetto – an urban area with high-end stores and affluent housing.


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