--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 3, 2006, at 2:34 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > >> You really do the culture here an injustice by your statement > >> above. No one I've ever known uses such a statement like this > >> innocuously. > > > > You live in a very protected neighborhood then. :-)' > > I must live in a protected neighborhood too, then, because > I've never heard *anyone* say it (that I can recall), except > perhaps when we were teenagers. Others may very well use it, > but it doesn't occur with nearly the frequency you make it > out to, unless amongst a very limited group.
I grew up in NYC, lived there until just a few years ago, and *I* never heard anyone say it. I *have* seen it in print (electronic or otherwise), but always in an extremely hostile context. > To me, it's the equivalent of "Drop dead." Not a very nice > thing to say. Yup. I've used it exactly once in my life, on this very forum (its abbreviation, actually). I was *exceedingly* pissed at the person I said it to, and I meant it to be understood as the ultimate in verbal hostility. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
