Logincandy rocks
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16 years, 3 months ago at Feb 6 21:05 - how would you discribe somebody using candy?
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16 years, 3 months ago at Feb 6 21:06 - she's tasty like a lollipop
silent killer
16 years, 3 months ago at Feb 7 20:17 - If its a euphemism for drugs, its a stupid one. Just call it what it is, and stop beating around the bush.
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GemLil
16 years, 3 months ago at Feb 7 22:19 - I'm bitter and twisted like an aniseed twist? This thread has fallen apart like a Flying Saucer under a tap.
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16 years, 3 months ago at Feb 7 22:23 - Speaking of euphemisms, what exactly does beating around the bush mean? fnar fnar!
silent killer
16 years, 3 months ago at Feb 8 1:21 - Damn, you caught me.
Well, I imagine it had something to do with hunting and instead of just beating a bush waiting for something to come out, you get your bow and arrow and shoot something.
Well, I imagine it had something to do with hunting and instead of just beating a bush waiting for something to come out, you get your bow and arrow and shoot something.
Xeil
16 years, 3 months ago at Feb 8 1:53 - as good of a tactic as that is, getting strait to the point is probably favored by most people.
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16 years, 3 months ago at Feb 8 5:57 - silent killer got the main idea as I've heard it explained. First, "beating the bush":
In more primitive times, hunting certain animals, like boars, was difficult and dangerous. They tended to hang out in thick foliage. If a hunter stayed outside the bushes, they couldn't kill the animal; if they went into the bushes, there was a high risk that they would get gored by the boar's tusks, or bitten or clawed or whatever as appropriate to the animal. Instead, humans, being such clever beasts, developed a new tactic: some of the hunters would run around beating the bush to drive the animal out where the remaining hunters could ambush it. A similar rule applies to hunting birds (which is where beating the bush would show up now).
I'm not sure exactly when "beating the bush" first pops up, but I seem to recall it's in the 15th or 16th centuries. Anyways, eventually "beating the bush" gets its own off-shoot, "beating around the bush". Instead of beating the bush to flush the animal out, you can beat around the bush, which results in a lot of talk and bluster and hitting of things, but no animal and thus no dinner. The exact path to the modern idiom is probably a bit more indirect and requires bouncing around minor variants until this particular version becomes hip and cool.
In more primitive times, hunting certain animals, like boars, was difficult and dangerous. They tended to hang out in thick foliage. If a hunter stayed outside the bushes, they couldn't kill the animal; if they went into the bushes, there was a high risk that they would get gored by the boar's tusks, or bitten or clawed or whatever as appropriate to the animal. Instead, humans, being such clever beasts, developed a new tactic: some of the hunters would run around beating the bush to drive the animal out where the remaining hunters could ambush it. A similar rule applies to hunting birds (which is where beating the bush would show up now).
I'm not sure exactly when "beating the bush" first pops up, but I seem to recall it's in the 15th or 16th centuries. Anyways, eventually "beating the bush" gets its own off-shoot, "beating around the bush". Instead of beating the bush to flush the animal out, you can beat around the bush, which results in a lot of talk and bluster and hitting of things, but no animal and thus no dinner. The exact path to the modern idiom is probably a bit more indirect and requires bouncing around minor variants until this particular version becomes hip and cool.