Joke Thread 4 (closed).

[Cobbs]

ASSICONS

(_!_) a regular ass
(__!__) a fat ass
(!) a tight ass
(_*_) an ********
{_!_} a swishy ass
(_o_) an ass that's been around
(_x_) kiss my ass
(_X_) leave my ass alone
(_zzz_) a tired ass
(_E=mc2_) a smart ass
(_$_) Money coming out of his ass
(_?_) Dumb Ass

When did @RSE become ass?

 

[Thingybob]

When did @RSE become ass?

Since it got imported from America

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Other way round, surely?

 

[AES]

Other way round, surely?

What, you mean it's at the FRONT now??

 

[stuart little]

Since it got imported from America

Buttocks &"-rse" are shipwrights terms used in days of wooden shipbuilding.

 

[Yorkieguy]

Speaking of America (Well in this video, much of it applies to the UK too):

But it's a joke guys and it's not xenophobic 'cos it's an American comedian.

 

[Amateur]

I thought that pound notes were a thing of the past nowadays - and who hangs money on their washing line anyway?

Never worked on the county lines I see?

When did @RSE become ass?

Same time Toffee became Candy.

 

[Amateur]

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Never worked on the county lines I see?

Same time Toffee became Candy.

I wonder if this is regional - I never heard @RSE until I was adult, it was always ass.

 

[Cobbs]

I wonder if this is regional - I never heard @RSE until I was adult, it was always ass.

It is - pronounced ass with me too, but always spelt @RSE. For some reason, I now find ass objectionable, I think because it's just another americanism these days.

 

[Amateur]

I wonder if this is regional - I never heard @RSE until I was adult, it was always ass.

Well its how you say it I suppose.

He's an ass...
light hearted attemp in company.
For instance when someone jokes about, and is not particularly funny.
He's an ass.
Or
You're an A rse.
Usually said aggressively for a cock up.
Like forgetting the machine guns while robbing a bank.
" You bloody A rse!"
Or
'ole can be added to really enforce.
As in bringing the wife and kids along on a Spar shop hold up because you couldnt find a sitter.
"You bloody Arse 'ole"

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Odd. It was always ass ........... in one of the areas of the Country with the most rhotic accent. As a child/youth I don't recall ever hearing (or reading) @RSE in any context.

 

[dzj]

 

[Amateur]

Finally got a dentist.

 

[Cozzer]

Odd. It was always ass ........... in one of the areas of the Country with the most rhotic accent. As a child/youth I don't recall ever hearing (or reading) @RSE in any context.

Maybe it's an age thing. Did you never see/hear the Ray Allan and Lord Charles vent act? One of Lord Charles' popular lines was "You silly @RSE".
Their act was on mainstream TV countless times in the 1960's onwards...

 

[John Brown]

I'm slightly confused. Was the "silly ass" that I heard in my youth a variant of @RSE? Or was it a totally separate insult? I always assumed it was the equine beast, as in "*******". Is the slang "jacksie(sp?) related? Did "ass" morph into "@RSE", or did the two terms merge into one after making the return trip to the colonies?

 

[Doug B]

 

[Cozzer]

I'm slightly confused. Was the "silly ass" that I heard in my youth a variant of @RSE? Or was it a totally separate insult? I always assumed it was the equine beast, as in "*******". Is the slang "jacksie(sp?) related? Did "ass" morph into "@RSE", or did the two terms merge into one after making the return trip to the colonies?

Yes, a variant. At least, I've always assumed that...
Perhaps courtesy of movie "language censorship" being eased?
Usually associated with the word "hole"...

 

[DrPhill]

https://www.etymonline.com/word/arsereplace buttock with the word in question. I forgot about the auto nanny.

 

[dzj]