Comments on: Ah Yes, that Famous American Colloquialism . . .

By: Paula

Paula — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:11:17 +0000

Posted this on my 18-year-old’s Facebook wall! Brilliant!

By: jason

jason — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:01:15 +0000

“Just check Wikipedia, and if you don’t like it you can always change it”- famous cartoon satire

By: James

James — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:20:57 +0000

No this is not at american colloquialism, someone with too much time on their hands decided to post this on Wiki as a joke. This phrase is acutally taken from some rap song in the 90′s i think.

By: Loren Eaton

Loren Eaton — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:04:14 +0000

Andy, that’s pure gold!

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:31:22 +0000

Heh – at one point, my college friends and I made a disambiguation page for “Ramen” arguing that the noodly snack also doubled as an obscure currency roughly equivalent to $0.18 U.S. dollars.

By: SoSprichtDerHERR

SoSprichtDerHERR — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:38:26 +0000

I’ve never heard it before. Most Americans wouldn’t know who Edwards is anyway.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:14:22 +0000

How very ture!

By: Rod Phillips

Rod Phillips — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:41:49 +0000

Aaron and Susan…do I have to keep my eyes on you? Truly, I think that Edwards had a Reggae thing going…set to the sound of “Don’t Worry, Be Happy!” but the words are in stead…

“Your Like a Spider on a thread…
Held over a fire and you’ll be dead…
You better worry…
I’m angry…”

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:32:38 +0000

Yeah, Northhampton was bumpin hip hop music left and right during the 1700′s. They probably had a great breakdance scene going then too. Those were the days.

By: Susana Ferrer

Susana Ferrer — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:39:47 +0000

yes, or “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” set to rap music. you never know quite what to expect with trevor…

By: Aaron Anderson

Aaron Anderson — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:30:16 +0000

Props to my brother, Trevor, for this one… he was the mastermind behind it all… this was the result of a day of “fun” we had with wikipedia, and his is the only one that survived at least a day…

hopefully some more good ones to come?

- Aaron

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:03:25 +0000

I’m not American (though I desire to be). Is that really an American colloquialism?

By: CR

CR — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:13:45 +0000

Funny.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:29:59 +0000

Proving yet once more that Michael Scott is a visionary genius:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFBDn5PiL00

By: Tyler H

Tyler H — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:03:54 +0000

Well, it is gone now. But it did last a full 15 hours according to the page log!

By: Thabiti Anyabwile

Thabiti Anyabwile — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:42:04 +0000

Hilarious! Got me bobbin’ my head! :-)

By: Loren Eaton

Loren Eaton — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:41:07 +0000

Ah, Wikipedia, the always-accurate source of information. I had a friend who a certain town named after a chocolate confection in Kentucky and posted it to Wikipedia. It’s still there. Like, three years later.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:24:12 +0000

That’s just awesome. We need to put that up on Urban Dictionary.