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Report your use of Brokieisms in so-called "real life"
Brown Eyes:
A guy at work used the phrase "tell you what..." to start a sentence yesterday. Hmmmm.... now my suspicions are up about that one. It would really be awesome to discover a Brokie someplace in the real-world purely through overhearing an overt Brokie-ism. I'd still find it hard to ask whether or not he was thinking of Jack Twist as he said it.
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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: atz75 on July 08, 2006, 02:39:38 pm ---A guy at work used the phrase "tell you what..." to start a sentence yesterday. Hmmmm.... now my suspicions are up about that one. It would really be awesome to discover a Brokie someplace in the real-world purely through overhearing an overt Brokie-ism. I'd still find it hard to ask whether or not he was thinking of Jack Twist as he said it.
::)
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Why don't you subtly up the ante with a "sure enough" or "s'alright" or a "you bet" or a "me neither"? Then he might respond with a "son of a bitch or a "dumbass" or a "course he hates my guts." Then you can throw in "talks a blue streak" or "what the hell happened to (month)." And he'll say "you know, it could be like this, always" and you'll say "you have no idea how bad it gets" and so on and so on, kicking it up a notch each time, until eventually one of you is saying "this is a goddamn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation" and the other is replying, "if you can't fix it, you gotta stand it" and you'll both KNOW -- without either of you ever having overtly mentioned the movie!!!
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Brown Eyes:
Well, that's a good suggestion. I'll start with the more subtle ones.
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I wonder what most difficult Brokie-isms would be for use in real-world conversation. I remember that the "Rodeoing ain't what it was in my Daddy's day." was highlighted as a phrase that would earn us extra points. Maybe "Goddamned paint brands wore off." would be another. And, surely, things like "couple of high-altitude f**ks once or twice a year." and "earlier today I was castrating calves" must be among the toughest.
serious crayons:
Yeah, some of those would be hard to slip into a conversation with your coworkers, say, if you don't happen to work on a ranch.
How about "stemmin the rose" "wrang it out" or "puttin the blocks to"? Those are difficult because they're all about sex, of course, but also because they're so colloquial. Your conversational partner would just go, "Hunh?" -- and s/he wouldn't be imitating Ennis.
"On the QT" would be relatively easy, though.
dly64:
--- Quote from: atz75 on July 08, 2006, 05:02:07 pm ---I wonder what most difficult Brokie-isms would be for use in real-world conversation. I remember that the "Rodeoing ain't what it was in my Daddy's day." was highlighted as a phrase that would earn us extra points. Maybe "Goddamned paint brands wore off." would be another. And, surely, things like "couple of high-altitude f**ks once or twice a year." and "earlier today I was castrating calves" must be among the toughest.
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Amanda - I did use the "high altitude f..ks" ... check out my previous post. Oh yes ... the reaction I got was one of ... "what in the hell are you talking about?!"
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