From: Deanna Berman (dberman_at_dimensional.com)
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 18:19:57 EST
I once spent a few hours each evening for five weeks tutoring a
Japanese ophalmological surgeon on the finer points of American slang
and verbal aggressiveness (to counter his feelings of inadequacy at
international professional conferences when his native conversational
rules prevented him from boasting about his exploits or pushing his
own opinions). For homework, I gave him a slang dictionary and told
him to study the entries from A to C. The day after I gave him the
book, it sounded as if he called me "Bimbo" when he opened the front
door, but I didn't have time to wonder about the strange greeting,
because he practically dragged me into the living room of the house
where he was staying. This time he made it a question: "BIMBO???",
pointing at the television, waving the dictionary and looking to me
for approval.
And there was Sally-Jessie Raphael, interviewing a couple of teenaged
girls about the deep psychological reasons behind their penchant for
engaging in recreational sex with hundreds of less-than-close
acquaintances. They were enjoying the limelight tremendously, flirting
coquettishly for the cameras. Too bad they couldn't see Kenji dancing
around, victoriously hollering "BIMBO!!!" back at them.
Deanna
dberman_at_dimensional.com
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Bimbo [was Re: EZ Serv insanity -- happy
resolution] the LAST WORD..!
> Your best work yet, Bill. Can we use that to replace the entry in
the
> Encyclopedia of Slang and Unconventional English?
>
> Ray
> --
>
>
> Alice sighed wearily. "I think you might do
> something better with Time," she said, "than
> wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers."
>
> "If you knew Time as well as I do," said the
> Hatter, "you wouldn't talk about wasting it."
>
> Alice in Wonderland
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