#82661
10/03/2002 2:02 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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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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#82662
10/03/2002 3:25 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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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,
WW
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#82663
10/03/2002 3:39 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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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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#82664
10/03/2002 3:55 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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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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#82665
10/03/2002 4:13 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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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
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#82666
10/05/2002 8:33 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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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.
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#82667
10/06/2002 4:28 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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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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#82668
10/06/2002 5:18 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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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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#82669
10/06/2002 7:16 PM
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addict
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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
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#82670
10/06/2002 9:41 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Golden ghetto – an urban area with high-end stores and affluent housing.
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#82671
10/08/2002 1:22 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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Minds-on – requiring mental attention and concentration.
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#82672
10/09/2002 12:32 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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Hillbilly heroin – slang term for the painkiller OxyContin, which has been abused in areas of poor, rural New England and Appalachia.
Well done, Alex.
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#82673
10/09/2002 1:34 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Golden ghetto – an urban area with high-end stores and affluent housing.I'm missing the Ghetto connection... 
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#82674
10/09/2002 8:34 PM
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old hand
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old hand
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I think the PC term is "gentrification", if I'm reading it correctly...
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#82675
10/09/2002 11:16 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Bed blocker
I should think that would be kids.
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#82676
10/10/2002 1:56 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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Wallet biopsy – the determination of a person’s ability to pay before admitting him for medical treatment.
Spot on again, Alex.
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#82677
10/10/2002 4:25 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Metrosexual – a narcissist in love with both himself and his urban lifestyle.
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#82678
10/13/2002 1:01 AM
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Anus envy – a longing to emulate the behavior of obnoxious celebrities.
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#82679
10/13/2002 5:05 PM
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Bed blocker – a chronically ill patient who uses a hospital bed for a long period of time.
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#82680
10/13/2002 7:01 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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So, Rhubarb got the bedblocker one right! 
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#82681
10/13/2002 11:49 PM
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Bridezilla – a bride-to-be who becomes exceptionally selfish, greedy and obnoxious when planning her wedding.
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#82682
10/15/2002 1:02 AM
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Big Hair House – a house which is garish and overly large in comparison with its neighbors and lot size.
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#82683
10/15/2002 9:34 PM
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journeyman
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Golden ghetto – an urban area with high-end stores and affluent housing.
I'm missing the Ghetto connection...
perhaps it's a typo and should read ....effluent housing
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#82684
10/15/2002 9:42 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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In reply to:
Big Hair House – a house which is garish and overly large in comparison with its neighbors and lot size.
...love it!
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#82685
10/15/2002 9:53 PM
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darling, you just don't know NYC's upper east side, for about 1 mile along 5th avenue, (edge of centeral park) there is a area with the highest per capita income in US (by zip code)
a few years a go, a small imigrant shop keeper decide to open a 24 hour deli (and yes, as all 24 hour deli are, this too, was a korean.
the neighbors were up in arms... a korean deli in there neighborhood? and attempted to have the whole block rezoned!
that area, filled with apartments that rent for $1,000,000 or more a month, (and very few, more are condo or coops, and you almost have to sign away your first born to get in...
ever see the Mel Gibson movie 'ransom'? that neighborhood. and please, nothing so plebian as a 24 hour deli is welcome. bonfire of the vanities was set in the same ghetto. its is a ghetto, because a ghetto, (going back to the italian, is a really a neighborhood, not a slum. )
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#82686
10/16/2002 1:46 AM
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Trustafarian – a person who has wealth, especially income from a trust, and a laid-back, bohemian lifestyle.
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#82687
10/16/2002 9:23 AM
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Oh, la, how I wish I were a Trustafarian, mon. 
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#82688
10/16/2002 12:34 PM
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a ghetto ... is a really a neighborhood, not a slum.
And to go back a little less far, the defining factor was really that the inhabitants were limited to that neighborhood, not being allowed out without special permission. This restriction could be taken as being imposed from within as well as from without.
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#82689
10/17/2002 12:56 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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Bozo explosion – the large number of inept employees acquired when a company hires an incompetent executive Who hires incompetent managers who hire incompetent workers
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