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Started by jimmy olsen, September 15, 2015, 12:18:30 AM

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Malthus

Quote from: Savonarola on September 15, 2015, 01:19:38 PM
I've never heard "Toad Strangler"in all the time I've lived here in Florida.

It being Florida, I'd assume that term involves a perversion so unpleasant we'd be better off not knowing its definition.  :P
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Someone should make an equivalent map for British slang; though I'm not sure what the specific regional words/slang in the USA were about.
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Quote from: Malthus on September 17, 2015, 03:50:19 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on September 15, 2015, 01:19:38 PM
I've never heard "Toad Strangler"in all the time I've lived here in Florida.

It being Florida, I'd assume that term involves a perversion so unpleasant we'd be better off not knowing its definition.  :P

It means heavy rain. Stop projecting your Ontarian perversions onto others.  :P
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Quote from: Savonarola on September 15, 2015, 01:19:38 PM

I've never heard "Toad Strangler"in all the time I've lived here in Florida.

I grew up in Florida. I'm 6th generation Floridian. My family moved to Florida in 1820, 25 years before it became a state. I'm the most Floridian person I've ever met.* And I've never heard the word "Toad Strangler" either.


*Ignoring that I haven't lived in the state in over 10 years. And that Florida today is much more associated with descendants of northern or latin american transplants. Also not including any Seminole Indians I've met (and I mean the real Seminole Indians, not the racist assholes in Tallahassee).
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Malthus

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 17, 2015, 09:42:10 PM
Quote from: Malthus on September 17, 2015, 03:50:19 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on September 15, 2015, 01:19:38 PM
I've never heard "Toad Strangler"in all the time I've lived here in Florida.

It being Florida, I'd assume that term involves a perversion so unpleasant we'd be better off not knowing its definition.  :P

It means heavy rain. Stop projecting your Ontarian perversions onto others.  :P

Hey, half the Ontarian dirty old perverts now live in ... Florida.  :P
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius