Suffering succotash - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2014年12月31日 · Today the latter phrase is known only as an expression of annoyance and surprise by animated cartoon characters such as Sylvester the Cat and Daffy Duck. Was the …
writing - What the #$@&%*! is that called? - English Language
2012年10月15日 · Another proposition: these are not exactly dirty words, but usually the order of the characters depends on a particular keyboard layout, hence we might call them qwerty …
terminology - Why do people call their characters "toons ... - Arqade
2016年8月1日 · The "origin" of the term "absolutely" came from the "carTOON" industry and decades of generations of people calling the characters in WB and Disney cartoons "toons". …
How did the letter Z come to be associated with sleeping/snoring?
2011年5月26日 · Edit: Another Wikipedia page:. The big Z. It is a convention in American comics that the sound of a snore can be reduced to a single letter Z.
Correct usage of replacing cuss words with symbols
I've noticed that symbols (i.e. #, $, %, !, *, etc.) are commonly used to filter profanity/foul language. Just out of curiosity, is there a specific way to do
Understanding "ain't no fun when the rabbit got the gun"
2021年7月2日 · In the real world no rabbit is ever going to be able to use a gun even if it could get hold of one but Bugs, being an anthropomorphised cartoon character, most certainly could. …
Is there a name for "the string of characters typed randomly on a ...
Clearly the cartoon is pointing out how “not random” that sequence was and couldn’t have been “random” keyboard mashing. – Jim Commented Dec 8, 2016 at 15:25
What are all of Sonic the Hedgehog's transformations? - Arqade
Hyper Sonic. Hyper Sonic (Haipā Sonikku) is a hyper transformation of Sonic the Hedgehog that is obtained by collecting all seven Super Emeralds, Chaos Emeralds that have been enhanced …
Origin of the expression "pull your finger out"
2014年7月25日 · All this rubbish about cannons and early 60s cartoon characters is puritanical avoidance of issue and use of euphemistic metaphors. The shock value of the use of this term …
The meaning and the origins of "everything's gone pear-shaped."
2011年6月22日 · The OED entry (updated March 2003) for pear-shaped, adj. (paywalled), defines sense 3 as . colloquial (chiefly British, orig. R.A.F. slang).