August 25, 2005

Cool

Hand Me The Finnegan Pin

Website of the Day is Double-Tongued Word Wrester, a dictionary of words "from the fringes of English". Frex, Finnegan Pin:

1938-39 A.T. Rosen @ Brooklyn, N.Y. LOTJ “Gas Station Slang”: Finegan pin…[struck] a vague expression to cover the fact that something in the car in [ sic] wrong but not yet exactly known, a whosis, etc. Its [ sic] akin to the slang expression, A paper-stretcher, or left-handed pencil.[end struck text] Non-existent auto part which mechanic blames for trouble he cannot locate.
Oh, and check out the entry for beal.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:06 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Dude! I'm famous! (Too bad I spelled Howard Beale's name wrong back then...)

Posted by: Susie at August 26, 2005 01:18 AM (nekkG)

2 No, they spelled it wrong in the movie!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 26, 2005 02:05 AM (ymzzr)

3 LOL!

Posted by: Susie at August 27, 2005 03:02 AM (nekkG)

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