May 30, 2005

Transmogrification

Wherein we dissect twenty five year old language manglings into semi-coherent explanations for some of the amazing turns of phrase (cough) emanating from this blog:

When we were in high school, we heard the saying "Don't get your panties in a bunch" being bandied about in the corridors of learning. This, in itself, is a North Americanization of the saying "Don't get your knickers in a twist" which somehow got brought into the jargon of the time.

Well, when we heard this saying, we decided to confuse and amuse our fellow hormonally challenged peers by morphing it a bit further. So we started saying "Don't get your bloomers in a snarl" every chance we got (and we got a lot of chances to do so), and were delighted to find that most of the students had no clue what we were talking about, and those in our circle thought it was relatively clever.

We told you that it doesn't take much to make our day...

Posted by (: Tom :) at May 30, 2005 11:00 PM