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Offline rogwar

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« on: June 26, 2002, 06:54:09 PM »
I have been helping some folks in Brazil associated with our company in their studies of slang in english. I was researching some slang sites and came across this...

mung n. (1) Used quite frequently back in the 1950's. Purported to be the nastiest substance on earth consisting of a mixture of assorted bodily fluids and solids together with fetid pus from a dead man's ear. Political correctness prevents us from describing the ethnic background of the man (ed: ???). The word was used as an insult and was incorporated into a kind of musical ditty sung thus: "You eat MUNG and bark at the moon." Usually "fighting words"!!(2) currently used on the internet to indicate a confusion or deliberate attempt to deceive (usually in relation to an e-mail address or other identification details). circa. (1) 1950's (2) 1990'ish onwards US


I thought "munch the trunch" was pretty humorous as well.

http://www.odps.cyberscriber.com/

Some of these might be a good source to find words for Channel 1 :D
« Last Edit: June 26, 2002, 07:19:07 PM by rogwar »