oh, hai

At icanhascheezburger.com, pictures of cats and other animals are captioned to humorous effect. Most of you have probably seen lolcats pics, and, like me, have spent some time considering the argot developed there.

The site has some good historical info pages, including this nicely written one on the history of lolspeak. lolspeak history

I enjoyed it, and immediately thought of youse guys.

Sparteye!!!

*hugs*

I pwn LOLcats!

oh hai, Sparteye!

U R ripe, David McRaney.

Cats and dogs can talk argot and walk upright.


See --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLXHvBFG-CI&NR=1

Hops better than bats.

Certainly for making beer.

...a single, obscure “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode SQUAWK! NO episode of STTNG is "obscure"! Harrumph!

Other than that, it's a good article. Though in the case of Notice also the exclamation points include intentional errors simulating the furious smashing of the 1 key while holding shift to get the ! symbol. , I fail to see how deliberately imitating a mistake makes any sort of point...

What this mistreated dog is holding is called : "lollie".
I think you call it popsickle, but I also remember a fifties'song called: "Lollipop, lollipop, whoops, lolli- lollipop"......

lollie

That word disappeared?

That's a lollipop in USn English. Lollie is more Britspeak. Popsicles are frozen confections, (usually) fruit flavored ice on a pair of sticks.

...and in rightpondian, a popsicle (genericized brand name) is an ice lollie thus completing the circle. A USan lollipop is also called a sucker esp. the smaller ones.

FWIW, the lollipop song i'm thinking of (by the Chordettes) has an oh not a whoops.

I call him
Lollipop lollipop
Oh lolli lolli lolli
Lollipop lollipop.....

It also has the finger-in-cheek pop! (duh-duh duh duh) noise. Is there an IPA symbol for that? ;-)

Is there an IPA symbol for that?

No symbol sadly.

Oh, right! That's the one. That was a real striking piece of music!

I think IPA limits itself to noises made by mouth and throat parts.

There was also the song by Millie Small

My Boy Lollipop
pop,pop,pop,pop
You make my heart go, giddy-up
pop,pop,pup,pop
You are as sweet as candy,
You're my sugar dandy

Sparteye, ma belle, how are you? Nice to see you.

Ok, ok, quiet everybody. Time is money. Together let's try to wax this little tennybopper in just one take!

All right girls, Bel you start; and Branee, Sparteye and Myridon, each of you wait until I point, then join in the chorus. Ok?

And Faldage; you do your special thing two full counts after the girls stop singing.

Got it? Ok, a-one, a-two, a-three...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rYoRaxgOE0

how do you get your finger in your cheek if it ain't through the mouth, pop?

Secundum OED1: lollipop :- "a. [T]he name of a particular kind of sweetmeat, consisting chiefly of sugar or treacle, that dissolves easily in the mouth. b. pl, (formerly also collect. sing.) Sweetmeats in general." And, our good old friend, Francis Grose [danger! unexploded Wikipedia!] (Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue) is cited: "lollipops, sweet lozenges purchased by children". And, interestingly, it was verbed in 1837: "Mere children in matters of taste, fit only to be lollypopped by his 'lady'" (Fraser's Magazine XV, 337). I guess the USan improvement was to add the stick, as it were.

OKAY WHO DID IT? WAS IT YOU, ETAOIN? ZMJEZHD?

SOMEBODY SPELLED "CHERRY" C-H-E-E-R-Y IN THE SINGALONG CRAWLER!

FIRED! EVERYBODY HERE IS FIRED! YOU ALL ARE LAME. THE SONG IS LAME.

EVERYBODY OUT! SOMEBODY GO GET THAT MILLIE WHAT'S-HER-NAME.

WHAT WE NEED HERE IS SOME OF THAT MODERN FIFTIES STYLE JUMP AND JIVE LIKE LAWRENCE WELK USED TO PLAY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqcpt-BKZBM

WAS IT YOU, ETAOIN? ZMJEZHD?

"Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over."

I got a suggestion but your arm's parboly ain't long enuff.

nor are my gloves.

and milo, it t'weren't me.

Dont't worry. That was absolutely Super Classy Top-boppop! Both
of them.

Sorry Millie-em. A laughing fit made me slip off-key; I guess that's where the cheery came into the cherry. Blame it on me
(I know they're all going to say it wasn't me so what...)
and never mind firing us; it saves us a breach of contract. We have better offers going.

You still have Faldage for your special effects.

'Allo, Bel.

I can't help but think that if those lyrics about boyfriends and lollypops had been written in a more recent decade, they'd be of questionable meaning.

Though not being Bel, I'd like to remark that in these more recent decades there's hardly a word left that is not of questionable meaning.
Maybe that's called decadence.

I dunno, I'm sure we're not the ones that invented, um, well, you know (wink-wink-nudge-nudge), so it had to have an inuendo-ish quality back then too, na.

in·nu·en·does
1. An indirect or subtle, usually derogatory implication in expression; an insinuation.

Oh, I had to find inuendo , got directed to innuendo and got the meaning. I don't know, I guess we were pretty ingenuendoes in those days.

usually derogatory???

Hmmm. How odd. I always heard it to mean "slighly racy in a sexual way".

yup, me, too, baby.

;¬ )

I got there via OneLook - dictionnary/ thesaurus.
There's only 4 results for inuendo.
Well, what does it matter. I had a riot laughing lunchbreak today!

HA!

ooo, sorry there, BranShea, I didn't mean to set you off on a search...I simply mis-spelled innuendo.

I thought it was inyourendo...

As Miss Marple said, "We had all the same sins when we were young, they just weren't considered mandatory."

(or something very similar to that, I'll have to reread that one."

As Groucho said (I forget which movie): "Out the door and innuendo."

... As the Good Book said (I forgot which book):... . . . .