Weebles wobble
Apr. 20th, 2005 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ivyficI was flipping through my book on slang last night (that I got at Henry Holt) looking for some good cabbie jargon. I didn't find any, but was amazed to discover five whole pages of slang for the Society for Creative Anachronism! SCA slang! Some of it I knew before, like "farb." I farb is someone who's dressed out of period - it's an abbreviation of "Far be it from me," as in "far be it from me to criticize, but they didn't have hockey masks in the 13th century." There was also "mundane" which is not limited in use to the SCA, I think. (Just think muggle.)
My favorite though was "weeble." A weeble is someone who refuse to take legitimate hits. Because "weebles wobble but they don't fall down!"
That cracks me up.
There was also a whole section on fake psychic slang, including terms like "Travis Bickle" and "repeating .38." I'm going to see how much of that I can legitimately coopt without sounding like I'm full of shit.
My favorite though was "weeble." A weeble is someone who refuse to take legitimate hits. Because "weebles wobble but they don't fall down!"
That cracks me up.
There was also a whole section on fake psychic slang, including terms like "Travis Bickle" and "repeating .38." I'm going to see how much of that I can legitimately coopt without sounding like I'm full of shit.