Bad guys are bad, that's what mommy says...

[Nirvana]

So I'm out grabbing something for Mother's Day and notice there's a Dollar General across the street. So I decide what the hell and made my way over & back to the toy section for you know what. Sure enough, a beautiful series of 6 figures hanging on a peg all the way at the top... and a kid about seven staring at the toys in general.

I pick up the SE, the kid asks, "What's that?"

"A GI Joe action figure," I reply... pause... slightly longer pause... "Did you want him?"

"Na." says the kid and grabs a NERF mini football toy of some sort and acts like he's Aikman with the ball. (Staubach is probably too old of a reference for this crowd.)

Score! So I start to pull the rest of the set, the kid is amused by someone buying action figures. Then he looks back up and says, "I have him." Follow the pointing finger, I notice those single pack chibi GI Joe movie figures with Destro on the front peg.

"Destro?" I ask.

"Yeah," the kid says. "He's a bad guy. Bad guys are bad, that's what mommy says. I don't want to be a bad guy."

Suddenly I'm confronted with this moral dilemma. Naturally, I should ask, "And where is your mommy?" so I can confront this woman. The child obviously needs to be saved from this demented and abusive mother.... but it's 8:30 at night and I'd really rather just go get some food and kick back with Sherlock on the DVR. Dilemma... Fuck it.

"Kid," I said, "tomorrow on Mother's Day you make sure to give your mom a hug."

"Ok." says the kiddo.

"And tell her she's not always right." Paid, grabbed food, went home. Ain't no bitch gonna diss Destro like that. ;)

[the odinson]

'bad guys are bad'. she sounds like a real smart broad. helluva way with words, too.

[drunknmunky]

It seems like the moral of the story is if Storm Shadow can lead the Ninja Force then bad guys can turn good.




Or something like that.

[Barefoot Jedi]

I would have told him Destro had moral ambiguity more so than genuine badness.

And to ask Mommy about moral ambiguity.

[Nirvana]

'bad guys are bad'. she sounds like a real smart broad. helluva way with words, too.

It's not like DG captures the Princeton crowd for its regulars. ;)

[CrimsonGuard101]

lol...i will take some nerf footballs and a box of joes...(in bruce willis voice from retaliaton)

[Beckley]

Jesus you are such a creep, quit talking up the kiddies at the DG

[the odinson]

i'd have told him mommy was bad and needed to be punished.

[ndb]

Why do you think they call them "bad" guys? :D

[Nirvana]

Jesus you are such a creep, quit talking up the kiddies at the DG

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Thanks, Becks.

[kneroh]

I was told I have to stay at least 200 yards away from this thread and I must alert the neighboring threads that I looked at it.

[Spectre]

I just want to know what damn DG you were at that had the figs in!

[musashi3000gt]

I would of told the kid "Yeah, but he's rich.....does mommy know that he is rich?"
Its been my personal experience that mommies like rich men with foreign accents.

[Snow Wolf]

Dude, never call chicks broads, lol.

'bad guys are bad'. she sounds like a real smart broad. helluva way with words, too.

[TTT]

Dude, never call chicks broads, lol.

So we're supposed to call them chicks ?

This can't end well.

[Snow Wolf]

LOL, it's a line from the movie UHF starring Weird Al Yankovic......So we're supposed to call them chicks ?

This can't end well.

[TTT]

LOL, it's a line from the movie UHF starring Weird Al Yankovic......

Ah OK then...I'm going back to calling them broads then...

[Tom-1]

I think nowadays if you raise your kid to think bad guys are okay, your kids get taken away. : [

Tom

[gruppenfuhrer88]

'bad guys are bad'. she sounds like a real smart broad. helluva way with words, too.

"Broad" you say? I like your style. :)

[sharky]

It seems like the moral of the story is if Storm Shadow can lead the Ninja Force then bad guys can turn good.

Jesus you are such a creep, quit talking up the kiddies at the DG
The real moral of the story^^^^^^^^

[Drawing Heat]

Broads? Chicks? Such appalling, sexist comments. As a masculine feminist, they offend me.

Everybody knows that women prefer to be called skirts.

[CrimsonGuard101]

wth does Broad mean anyway...were all the chicx in the olden days overweight and they were just being nice to call em "broad?" instead of fat, obese?

[Drawing Heat]

I think broad was an uncivilized chick. Very un-ladylike and such.

[CrimsonGuard101]

I think broad was an uncivilized chick. Very un-ladylike and such.

Yeah I know who and what it was referncing..I am just curious how the word was picked..like how that word was indicitive of the feeling of the first person who coined it.

[USAgent]

Yeah I know who and what it was referncing..I am just curious how the word was picked..like how that word was indicitive of the feeling of the first person who coined it.

google answers believes they know (but it's the internet, so you know- for what it's worth)

"It comes from a broad being a playing card. Broad is an 18th century slang term for a playing card, especially one used in three card monte. This usage may refer to style of playing deck. In modern card decks, a bridge deck has narrower cards than are found in a poker deck. Broad could be a reference to this larger cut of cards.

By the 20th century this sense of broad had expanded to include tickets of admission and transportation. From Field’s Watch Yourself of 1912:

Fix the olly! I gave him broads to the show!

And from Jackson & Hellyer’s 1914 A Vocabulary of Criminal Slang:

“Beating the broads” is corrupting the conductor or other collecting functionaire of a transportation line.

At about the same time, the term is recorded to mean a prostitute. Also from Jackson & Hellyer:

Broad, Noun Current amongst genteel grafters chiefly. A female confederate; a female companion, a woman of loose morals. Broad is derived from the far-fetched metaphor of "meal ticket," signifying a female provider for a pimp, from the fanciful correspondence of a meal ticket to a railroad or other ticket.

If the meal ticket connection is too much for you, the sense could have jumped from three card monte to woman. The goal of that game is to pick the queen from among three cards, and broad could have transferred from the card, to the queen, to women.

The general sense of broad meaning a woman, as opposed to the specific one of prostitute, is cited from 1911, from the September issue of Hampton’s Magazine:

Pretty soon what is technically known as a “broad"—"broad" being the latest New Yorkese—hove into sight.

Although this general sense is cited three years earlier than the prostitution sense, it is likely that the prostitution sense is older since the earliest citations of that are in slang dictionaries, meaning the term was around for a while before the lexicographers got hold of it. Copyright 1997-2007, by David Wilton "
Source(s):
Wordorigins.org (http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/mor…)

[fireflyguy]

All I got from your story was that you're lucky enough to have a DG AND find the Joes there. Turd.

[DR.Sin]

google answers believes they know (but it's the internet, so you know- for what it's worth)

"It comes from a broad being a playing card. Broad is an 18th century slang term for a playing card, especially one used in three card monte. This usage may refer to style of playing deck. In modern card decks, a bridge deck has narrower cards than are found in a poker deck. Broad could be a reference to this larger cut of cards.

By the 20th century this sense of broad had expanded to include tickets of admission and transportation. From Field’s Watch Yourself of 1912:

Fix the olly! I gave him broads to the show!

And from Jackson & Hellyer’s 1914 A Vocabulary of Criminal Slang:

“Beating the broads” is corrupting the conductor or other collecting functionaire of a transportation line.

At about the same time, the term is recorded to mean a prostitute. Also from Jackson & Hellyer:

Broad, Noun Current amongst genteel grafters chiefly. A female confederate; a female companion, a woman of loose morals. Broad is derived from the far-fetched metaphor of "meal ticket," signifying a female provider for a pimp, from the fanciful correspondence of a meal ticket to a railroad or other ticket.

If the meal ticket connection is too much for you, the sense could have jumped from three card monte to woman. The goal of that game is to pick the queen from among three cards, and broad could have transferred from the card, to the queen, to women.

The general sense of broad meaning a woman, as opposed to the specific one of prostitute, is cited from 1911, from the September issue of Hampton’s Magazine:

Pretty soon what is technically known as a “broad"—"broad" being the latest New Yorkese—hove into sight.

Although this general sense is cited three years earlier than the prostitution sense, it is likely that the prostitution sense is older since the earliest citations of that are in slang dictionaries, meaning the term was around for a while before the lexicographers got hold of it. Copyright 1997-2007, by David Wilton "
Source(s):
Wordorigins.org (http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/mor…)

The more you know or knowing is half the battle or something like that. I am half asleep anyway. I did manage to find the DG Joes yesterday though. Searching for more to help others.

When I was growing up I had come to the conclusion that bad guys were bad. Hence why I did not have very many bad guy figures. Then I figured out it was because of my mom that I had that idealogy. So I used extra figures as my badguys. I always had hours of fun. Eventually my Jurassic Park toys kicked some ass. Other toys be damned.

Oh yeah, Weird Al Rocks. Saw him in concert about a week or two ago. I have seen UHF many times.

[Splintershins]

"Yes honey, you can be just like Bin Laden when you grow up, follow your dreams sweetie!"

"Sometimes bad men are good, you'll just have to figure that out for your 7-year-old, nerf-loving self."

[Splintershins]

Wait, are we worried because he doesn't want to "be" a bad guy, or "own" a bad guy figure? 'Cause those are two totally different things.

[redx24]

lucky. everytime i go to a DG i feargetting shanked and yelled at in 3 differnt languages.

[Riotheory]

I tell my kids that bad guys are what make the good guys look good. If they had no Cobras/Grenadiers/Terminators/Storm Troopers, then Clutch and Shipwreck would look like the bad guys.

R.

[RolandofGilead]

You couldn't wait to find out if the mom was hot first?

[CrimsonGuard101]

google answers believes they know (but it's the internet, so you know- for what it's worth)

"It comes from a broad being a playing card. Broad is an 18th century slang term for a playing card, especially one used in three card monte. This usage may refer to style of playing deck. In modern card decks, a bridge deck has narrower cards than are found in a poker deck. Broad could be a reference to this larger cut of cards.

By the 20th century this sense of broad had expanded to include tickets of admission and transportation. From Field’s Watch Yourself of 1912:

Fix the olly! I gave him broads to the show!

And from Jackson & Hellyer’s 1914 A Vocabulary of Criminal Slang:

“Beating the broads” is corrupting the conductor or other collecting functionaire of a transportation line.

At about the same time, the term is recorded to mean a prostitute. Also from Jackson & Hellyer:

Broad, Noun Current amongst genteel grafters chiefly. A female confederate; a female companion, a woman of loose morals. Broad is derived from the far-fetched metaphor of "meal ticket," signifying a female provider for a pimp, from the fanciful correspondence of a meal ticket to a railroad or other ticket.

If the meal ticket connection is too much for you, the sense could have jumped from three card monte to woman. The goal of that game is to pick the queen from among three cards, and broad could have transferred from the card, to the queen, to women.

The general sense of broad meaning a woman, as opposed to the specific one of prostitute, is cited from 1911, from the September issue of Hampton’s Magazine:

Pretty soon what is technically known as a “broad"—"broad" being the latest New Yorkese—hove into sight.

Although this general sense is cited three years earlier than the prostitution sense, it is likely that the prostitution sense is older since the earliest citations of that are in slang dictionaries, meaning the term was around for a while before the lexicographers got hold of it. Copyright 1997-2007, by David Wilton "
Source(s):
Wordorigins.org (http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/mor…)

Hah...thats good enough answer for me lol..and now I KNOW! weeee

[netowolf]

nirvana, you´re a hero!

[Nightrain]

Wait, are we worried because he doesn't want to "be" a bad guy, or "own" a bad guy figure? 'Cause those are two totally different things.

They really are not.

[Viper6]

should of took the kid out for a beer and a cobra tatoo