I never heard "dube" but if it's regional, then you're OKDr. Medulla wrote:Apologies for the hijack, but just this morning I had a weird word pop up in my memory. I remembered that as a kid, condoms were known as dubes. And I realized I haven't encountered the word (to mean condom, anyway) in ages, so I wondered whether I was misremembering somehow. Urban Dictionary comes to the rescue: "condom...used by adolescents in Northern Canada"
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Things I like about Millennials
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I'd love to find out the etymology there. What sort of population there? Scandinavian?Dr. Medulla wrote:Apologies for the hijack, but just this morning I had a weird word pop up in my memory. I remembered that as a kid, condoms were known as dubes. And I realized I haven't encountered the word (to mean condom, anyway) in ages, so I wondered whether I was misremembering somehow. Urban Dictionary comes to the rescue: "condom...used by adolescents in Northern Canada"
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Lots of Scandis where I grew up. And Ukrainians. Otherwise, the white population is mostly English and Scottish. I just asked B about it and she'd never heard of it.eumaas wrote:I'd love to find out the etymology there. What sort of population there? Scandinavian?Dr. Medulla wrote:Apologies for the hijack, but just this morning I had a weird word pop up in my memory. I remembered that as a kid, condoms were known as dubes. And I realized I haven't encountered the word (to mean condom, anyway) in ages, so I wondered whether I was misremembering somehow. Urban Dictionary comes to the rescue: "condom...used by adolescents in Northern Canada"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... id=1583897
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Never heard that term... where I grew up they were known as hudson river white fish (used ones anyway).
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Oh fuck, that made me laugh.revbob wrote:Never heard that term... where I grew up they were known as hudson river white fish (used ones anyway).
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They are closely related to the Coney Island white fish.Dr. Medulla wrote:Oh fuck, that made me laugh.revbob wrote:Never heard that term... where I grew up they were known as hudson river white fish (used ones anyway).
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Urban dictionary backs you up on this.revbob wrote:They are closely related to the Coney Island white fish.Dr. Medulla wrote:Oh fuck, that made me laugh.revbob wrote:Never heard that term... where I grew up they were known as hudson river white fish (used ones anyway).
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In America, a common version of this is "doohickey," but my mother used to say "doo-flotchee," a term I've literally never heard anyone else use.101Walterton wrote:Duberry (shortened to dubes) was the name given to anything you forgot the name of. It was like saying thingy.Dr. Medulla wrote:Apologies for the hijack, but just this morning I had a weird word pop up in my memory. I remembered that as a kid, condoms were known as dubes. And I realized I haven't encountered the word (to mean condom, anyway) in ages, so I wondered whether I was misremembering somehow. Urban Dictionary comes to the rescue: "condom...used by adolescents in Northern Canada"
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My father says grabbenhausen.Wolter wrote:In America, a common version of this is "doohickey," but my mother used to say "doo-flotchee," a term I've literally never heard anyone else use.101Walterton wrote:Duberry (shortened to dubes) was the name given to anything you forgot the name of. It was like saying thingy.Dr. Medulla wrote:Apologies for the hijack, but just this morning I had a weird word pop up in my memory. I remembered that as a kid, condoms were known as dubes. And I realized I haven't encountered the word (to mean condom, anyway) in ages, so I wondered whether I was misremembering somehow. Urban Dictionary comes to the rescue: "condom...used by adolescents in Northern Canada"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... id=1583897
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This is rich...
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Delaney’s attitude is typical of his youthful cohort. Millennials—the demographic group also known as Generation Y, Generation Me, and Daesh—have found it difficult to balance dueling priorities as they exit their parents’ basements and enter the real world.
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As does Philip J. Fry, who went to Coney Island U, home of the Whitefish.Dr. Medulla wrote:Urban dictionary backs you up on this.revbob wrote:They are closely related to the Coney Island white fish.Dr. Medulla wrote:Oh fuck, that made me laugh.revbob wrote:Never heard that term... where I grew up they were known as hudson river white fish (used ones anyway).
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Is this just a regional term I wonder.Kory wrote:As does Philip J. Fry, who went to Coney Island U, home of the Whitefish.Dr. Medulla wrote:Urban dictionary backs you up on this.revbob wrote:They are closely related to the Coney Island white fish.Dr. Medulla wrote:Oh fuck, that made me laugh.revbob wrote:Never heard that term... where I grew up they were known as hudson river white fish (used ones anyway).
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Things Boomers like about Millennials: their BLOOD.
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This is precisely the type of person you don't want to live longer, let alone forever.Rat Patrol wrote:Things Boomers like about Millennials: their BLOOD.
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Millennials become death, destroyers of the economy!
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