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July 31, 2006

Swimming pool

I played a joke on Christy today which she did not think was very funny. I told her I did not have the heart to do to her what the joke entailed, but she insisted I do it. She did not know what she was getting herself into.

It goes like this: you have the victim put her hand out palm up, and then you draw on the palm with your finger a "map" of her dream house. You point out the driveway, the garage, the lawn, the house, etc. If you can manage to be sneaky about it, you then spit on the person's hand and say, "and there's the swimming pool!"

I googled this particular joke, and wasn't able to find any reference to it. That was a pretty mean joke that people used to play on each other in like the first grade, and I am surprised nobody had ever heard of it.

Now, this is completely unrelated, but it reminds me of an odd occurence from a few months back: a linguist or some sort was researching the use of the term "ditch in line," which means to cut in line. So when I say, "give me a ditch," what I mean is "let me cut in line." I write that every now and then on this here commentary, but apparently nobody else in the world uses ditch to mean a cut in line. I didn't know nobody else said it until this fellow told me that the term is only used in Central Ohio, and then former Ohio congressman (and one-time Presidential hopeful) John Kasich said it on Fox News and nobody knew what he was talking about.

In short, people from Ohio say "ditch" to mean cut in line, and spit on hands as a joke. Maybe you can see why I moved away now.

Posted by oz115 at July 31, 2006 01:19 AM

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Comments

Posted by: Christy Poo at July 31, 2006 10:42 AM

Posted by: G at July 31, 2006 03:46 PM

Posted by: tim at August 1, 2006 09:56 PM