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« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2007, 10:06:48 AM » |
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« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2007, 10:48:25 AM » |
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Exactly.
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« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2007, 10:50:14 AM » |
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Actually, it was a "Wild Heir."
That's right, it was Paris Hilton what got up your @$$.
And now it is on the internet somewhere as a YouTube video ...
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« Reply #18 on: May 20, 2007, 10:51:51 AM » |
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No, no, no.
It's "wild Herr" and is a remnant of WWI-era anti-German bias...
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« Reply #19 on: May 20, 2007, 11:02:26 AM » |
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It's definately "hair" as it refers to ingrown version as in ingrown toenails only there are usually no toenails in that vacinity but anyway, one that kind of bothers or tickles one, due to its "wildness."
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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. ~George Bernard Shaw
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« Reply #20 on: May 20, 2007, 11:44:11 AM » |
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It's definately "hair" as it refers to ingrown version as in ingrown toenails only there are usually no toenails in that vacinity but anyway, one that kind of bothers or tickles one, due to its "wildness."
Hmmm...you're in the vicinity, but I think your spelling ability is definitely off. So should I accept your hair as hare? |
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« Reply #21 on: May 20, 2007, 05:30:06 PM » |
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From the link posted by just dave--
>... "toke the wild hair"
The "toke" is a mystery to me, perhaps a nonstandard past tense of "take"
(cf. "wake"/"woke")?
A linguist doesn't know that toke is so NOT the past tense of take??? I bet toking a wild hair would be a
highly (pun intended) liberating experience.
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« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2007, 02:56:23 AM » |
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A linguist doesn't know that toke is so NOT the past tense of take??? From “The Brome Play of Abraham and Isaac:” “Her Abraham drew hys stroke and þe angell toke the sword in hys hond soddenly.” |
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« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2007, 05:12:57 AM » |
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"He acts like he's got a hair up his arse"
Similar to "Does anal retentive have a hyphen?"
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« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2007, 08:12:48 AM » |
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The (related?) phrase I've heard is, "He's got a hair across is @$$."
When I asked what it meant and where it came from, I was asked if I'd ever seen how a dog behaves when it has accidentally swallowed a piece of hair. Apparently, the hair passes, but not easily or all at once, and the sensation of having the hair part in, part out, makes dogs absolutely batty.
Never seen it myself...
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« Reply #25 on: May 21, 2007, 09:19:48 AM » |
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I've heard it and used it. It's interchangeable with "got a burr up your butt." (more descriptive than under your saddle)
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« Reply #26 on: May 21, 2007, 09:21:48 AM » |
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No, no, no.
It's "wild Herr" and is a remnant of WWI-era anti-German bias...
ROTFLMAO. Yeah, that's it. |
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« Reply #27 on: May 21, 2007, 10:12:00 AM » |
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just dave--I'm SO disappointed....but enlightened.
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« Reply #28 on: May 24, 2007, 11:37:49 AM » |
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It's definately "hair" as it refers to ingrown version as in ingrown toenails only there are usually no toenails in that vacinity but anyway, one that kind of bothers or tickles one, due to its "wildness."
Hmmm...you're in the vicinity, but I think your spelling ability is definitely off. So should I accept your hair as hare? No, I ate the hare for dinner last night :-) Thanks for the spelling lesson; I'll definitely remember it. |
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« Reply #29 on: May 24, 2007, 11:44:22 AM » |
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Initially, I woulda said "hair. No question."
A "wild hair" is a hair that grows in an unexpected or inappropriate place (say, off the ear or the tip of the nose, etc.), isn't it?
Therefore, having a wild hair up one's arse would be: A: an unexpected or inappropriate place for a hair; and therefore B: most likely annoying or vexing (causing one to act in irrational and wildly erratic ways - thus the query: "do you have a wild hair up your @ss or what?)
Similar to getting one's nickers in a bunch.
A wild "hare" squiggling around on the wrong side of a sphincter (well, let's be honest, in this scenario, is there a correct side?), however, would seem to also to be annoying and/or vexing for many, many reasons. Indeed, it would seem, emotionally at the minimum, to be much worse.
Therefore, I am now forced to admit complete ambivalence.
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