Egging on the RIAA
p2pnet news | Freedom:- Looks like I made a mistake in yesterday’s post on the news —- from the RIAA, no less —- that Recording Industry vs The People’s ray Beckerman had joined the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation).
RIAA: egg on face over Ray Beckerman, was the story headline, but, “I’m not sure this is the correct euphimism to use for the RIAA in this sentence,” says pandrijeczko in a comment to the Slashdot post on the story.
“Over here in Blighty, the expression ‘you have egg on your face’ is often said to a man who had forgotten to zip up his trouser flies, possibly after visiting a urinal,” says pandrijeczko, going on:
That’s because we British are a quiet and genteel people who consider it quite rude in polite company to shout out “OI, MATE! YOUR F***IN’ FLIES ARE OPEN!” and prefer to use this quaint euphemism instead. Of course, the fact that every other British person in hearing range already knows what the euphemism means and immediately starts staring at the target’s gusset-region anyway, doesn’t enter into it.
However, the fact that this euphemism implies that the target is no doubt displaying a flaccid, tiny, shrivelled willy while everyone else is pointing their fingers and laughing at him can hardly be applied to the RIAA now, can it?
Oh wait…
There’s only one thing that differentiates man from the animals – we’re not afraid of vacuum cleaners.
Cheers!
Jon Newton - p2pnet
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February 8th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
holy shit. lol
February 8th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
The euphemism ‘you have egg on your face’ is not interchangeable with ‘your flies, or spaver is open/down’. It is merely a possible result. Whoever uses this must get odd looks, because it simply isn’t right.
The person caught in the embarrassing situation could be said to be caught with egg on their face, but is only really poignant if they’d said something along the lines of “my new trouser suit is infallible” before being spotted with John Thomas out for a breath of air.
You get me?
February 8th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Or maybe pointing Percy at the porcelain and then missing
February 9th, 2008 at 4:31 am
…of course, us Welsh prefer less subtle ways of telling people!
‘Put that thing away or you’re going to get us arrested!’
‘Uh-oh…trouser malfunction’
‘Look out…its a chestburster in the wrong place!’
‘Dude…GAYYYY!’
..any of the above usually works (unless they are on their 5th pint!)
February 10th, 2008 at 2:44 am
Willie Peter John Dick – The BIG four
February 11th, 2008 at 9:40 am
On this subject matter, I’ve seen a sign in some
men’s public restrooms that reads:
“We aim to please. You aim too, please.”