For my parents, I was thinking of having a family potrait taken of the kids, the sibs, hubby and I to present as a Christmas present. My family is relocating to Peony's neck of the country, so who knows when the opportiuntiy will again arise for a family pic.. I emailed my brothers to request an appointment for us to get together to have our picture taken and asked them to "keep it on the DL". One of my brothers had no idea what "the D-L" is (warning, the first definition is not only graphically offensive, but is not as accurate as the second). That is when my other brother referred him to the Urban Dictionary.
So now you know, next time you speak to Peony and she mentions someones McJob or starts talking about how her last batch of snickerdoodles was off the chain you know where to go. She can revert to Urban Contemporary Lingo and has been known to say things such as "I love me some Swedish Meatballs" and "people think the Diocese of Arlington is all that and a bag of chips" at times and it can be quite confusing.
Off the chain is a new one to me. After reading the definitions, I still don't quite get it. Derivation, anyone?
And the Diocese of Arlington is all that and a bag of chips. Especially my parish.
Someone end my italic for me please...
DM -- fixed the tag, but have no idea where the phrase "off the chain" comes from. I would agree that your parish is indeed all that and a bag of chips, though perhaps your pastor would prefer a different side order.
That Pansy, of course, is practising on all of us. I don't use these kinds of phrases often at all, and when I do the effect is not unlike Al Gore straining to be hip: "Do we need a... 'lock box'? Kyeah!" She once expended screen after screen of IM trying to get me to understand when one says "kyeah!" so I hope I got that right. She ought to submit the definition to Urban Dictionary. And I have never used the phrase "off the chain".
DM-
With the "people think" part, I did not mean to imply that only in people's imaginations does one find the Diocese of Arlington awesome. I dream of living in such a diocese. I was just trying to make it sound as if it were coming from the middle of a conversation.
Peony-
I hope you do not mind me poking fun. It's just we have had many conversations on colloquialisms, I wanted to pull you into this some how.
And no, she has not said her "snickerdoodles are off the chain". She has said "all that and a bag of chips" in reference to the Diocese of Arlington.
oh Pansy I know you are teasing me :) because admit it, I do sound like Al Gore! When I made that remark about Swedish meatballs remember how long it took you to come up for air?
The first time I heard the phrase "all that and a side of chips" (or fries or whatever) was when a travel nurse was commenting on the City of Augusta's high opinion of itself ("they think they're all that and a side of fries.")
No offense taken -- I figured if Peony said that, she was just being silly, or perhaps describing one of the Arlingtonian parishes gone astray :)
actually I think I was alluding to some of the parishes that are doctrinally impeccable but liturgically mediocre. Not every parish is doing cool topical things or has a schola cantorum. When I lived in Arlington, it took me a while to figure out that if I wanted more than the punch-card, pizza-church, "Mass factory" experience, I was going to have to explore other parishes. A good friend of mine in NoVA is having the same difficulty.
...kyeah