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05-13-2012, 02:45 AM | #21 |
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Broads? Chicks? Such appalling, sexist comments. As a masculine feminist, they offend me.
Everybody knows that women prefer to be called skirts.
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05-13-2012, 02:51 AM | #22 |
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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?
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05-13-2012, 02:55 AM | #23 |
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I think broad was an uncivilized chick. Very un-ladylike and such.
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05-13-2012, 02:57 AM | #24 |
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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.
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05-13-2012, 05:04 AM | #25 |
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"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 |
05-13-2012, 08:12 AM | #26 |
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All I got from your story was that you're lucky enough to have a DG AND find the Joes there. Turd.
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05-13-2012, 08:34 AM | #27 |
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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 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. Last edited by DR.Sin; 05-13-2012 at 08:37 AM.. |
05-13-2012, 08:40 AM | #28 |
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05-13-2012, 08:44 AM | #29 |
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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.
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05-13-2012, 09:37 AM | #30 |
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lucky. everytime i go to a DG i feargetting shanked and yelled at in 3 differnt languages.
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