Mister Slang
@misterslang.bsky.social
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MELIA has guarding issues. Both with food & toys. She was abandoned by her "family" in their apartment. No food/water. Starving! She was rescued and put into foster. The foster being inexperienced with guarding she bit them. Melia will learn in her forever home she will never starve again. 👇
January 6, 2026 at 11:22 PM
MELIA has guarding issues. Both with food & toys. She was abandoned by her "family" in their apartment. No food/water. Starving! She was rescued and put into foster. The foster being inexperienced with guarding she bit them. Melia will learn in her forever home she will never starve again. 👇
So, time for a new update of GDoS. I think #37 since the online launched in October 2016. Full, or so I like to believe, of the usual selection of louche goodies. Available on line now, and to accompany it, so too is my latest substack:
open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
It’s Update Time!
#37 October-December 2025
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January 5, 2026 at 3:37 PM
So, time for a new update of GDoS. I think #37 since the online launched in October 2016. Full, or so I like to believe, of the usual selection of louche goodies. Available on line now, and to accompany it, so too is my latest substack:
open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
@gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social
Da hat er eben leider recht
Die Welt ist arm, der Mensch ist schlecht
[...]
Natürlich hab ich leider recht
Die Welt ist arm, der Mensch ist schlecht
Wer wollt' auf Erden nicht ein Paradies?
Doch die Verhältnisse, gestatten sie's?
Nein, sie gestatten's eben nicht!
Da hat er eben leider recht
Die Welt ist arm, der Mensch ist schlecht
[...]
Natürlich hab ich leider recht
Die Welt ist arm, der Mensch ist schlecht
Wer wollt' auf Erden nicht ein Paradies?
Doch die Verhältnisse, gestatten sie's?
Nein, sie gestatten's eben nicht!
January 3, 2026 at 2:57 PM
@gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social
Da hat er eben leider recht
Die Welt ist arm, der Mensch ist schlecht
[...]
Natürlich hab ich leider recht
Die Welt ist arm, der Mensch ist schlecht
Wer wollt' auf Erden nicht ein Paradies?
Doch die Verhältnisse, gestatten sie's?
Nein, sie gestatten's eben nicht!
Da hat er eben leider recht
Die Welt ist arm, der Mensch ist schlecht
[...]
Natürlich hab ich leider recht
Die Welt ist arm, der Mensch ist schlecht
Wer wollt' auf Erden nicht ein Paradies?
Doch die Verhältnisse, gestatten sie's?
Nein, sie gestatten's eben nicht!
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@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
I was wondering if you repost this dog. Her name is MELIA, only 3.5 years old and at the shelter 843 days. Shes looking for a quiet adult only home. Cat friendly. No dogs.
Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
I was wondering if you repost this dog. Her name is MELIA, only 3.5 years old and at the shelter 843 days. Shes looking for a quiet adult only home. Cat friendly. No dogs.
Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
January 2, 2026 at 11:27 PM
@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
I was wondering if you repost this dog. Her name is MELIA, only 3.5 years old and at the shelter 843 days. Shes looking for a quiet adult only home. Cat friendly. No dogs.
Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
I was wondering if you repost this dog. Her name is MELIA, only 3.5 years old and at the shelter 843 days. Shes looking for a quiet adult only home. Cat friendly. No dogs.
Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
My thanks to the steady flow of new followers/subscribers to Mister Slang at substack. The least I can do is offer you something to chew on:
open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
Bellyfuls and Blow-offs
Get yer larfin’ tackle round this lot
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:11 PM
My thanks to the steady flow of new followers/subscribers to Mister Slang at substack. The least I can do is offer you something to chew on:
open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
@bcdreyer.social #42: I find this immeasurably comforting. I had assumed that it was another sign of impending senility, like extra pees as the night passes. Of course the drink needed to quieten the demons may have some input there.
December 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
@bcdreyer.social #42: I find this immeasurably comforting. I had assumed that it was another sign of impending senility, like extra pees as the night passes. Of course the drink needed to quieten the demons may have some input there.
A small postscript to my recent substack 'He Knew You Know'. Regarding the street cry 'Has your mother sold her mangle’ I forgot this, in contemporary slang:
December 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A small postscript to my recent substack 'He Knew You Know'. Regarding the street cry 'Has your mother sold her mangle’ I forgot this, in contemporary slang:
And yet he yammers on. Encore un effin' substack: open.substack.com/pub/jonathon.... AI meets...slang!
December 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
And yet he yammers on. Encore un effin' substack: open.substack.com/pub/jonathon.... AI meets...slang!
Worst day possible for this: meta have informed me I must update my iphone whatsapp. This needs phone number. But they still have my old UK one and have not permitted me to change it. So can't move forward. If I delete WA I assume that destroys all the pix and chats. Wretched megalomaniacs.
December 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Worst day possible for this: meta have informed me I must update my iphone whatsapp. This needs phone number. But they still have my old UK one and have not permitted me to change it. So can't move forward. If I delete WA I assume that destroys all the pix and chats. Wretched megalomaniacs.
Happy Christmas to those who celebrate. Here is an apostate's present. Read it as and when. open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
PS this pic is of a great, but paradoxically lean French eater; my subject A.J. Liebling was a great US one, but much, much fatter.
PS this pic is of a great, but paradoxically lean French eater; my subject A.J. Liebling was a great US one, but much, much fatter.
Hey, Joe!
A few words on A.J. Liebling
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December 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Happy Christmas to those who celebrate. Here is an apostate's present. Read it as and when. open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
PS this pic is of a great, but paradoxically lean French eater; my subject A.J. Liebling was a great US one, but much, much fatter.
PS this pic is of a great, but paradoxically lean French eater; my subject A.J. Liebling was a great US one, but much, much fatter.
@johnnyhaddo.bsky.social You want a larf? So I slop down my mix (or several) of Campari + liquore de fragola and boy o boy does my blood sugar take off. Bougre. I have to see the generaliste on Monday for the quarterly check-up. She will not be kind. Still eau de vie de framboise may still serve.
December 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
@johnnyhaddo.bsky.social You want a larf? So I slop down my mix (or several) of Campari + liquore de fragola and boy o boy does my blood sugar take off. Bougre. I have to see the generaliste on Monday for the quarterly check-up. She will not be kind. Still eau de vie de framboise may still serve.
@dranniegray.bsky.social @judithflanders.co.uk Thank you both so much. Top smut indeed, but that's my world. And we must be honest, specifics or not, we know _exactly_ what is intended.
December 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
@dranniegray.bsky.social @judithflanders.co.uk Thank you both so much. Top smut indeed, but that's my world. And we must be honest, specifics or not, we know _exactly_ what is intended.
Don't let them fool you: pink *is* for boys. Or wild strawberry eau de vie + Campari certainly are. Bonne fete everyone.
December 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Don't let them fool you: pink *is* for boys. Or wild strawberry eau de vie + Campari certainly are. Bonne fete everyone.
Thank those who have essayed a meaning for 'wriggling pole'. Sory, but not sure that we are there yet. fwiw my take is that it's something to with mixing dough. But I still don't know what it looked like.
December 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Thank those who have essayed a meaning for 'wriggling pole'. Sory, but not sure that we are there yet. fwiw my take is that it's something to with mixing dough. But I still don't know what it looked like.
Does anyone, a historian of cookery/bakery perhaps, know what a baker's 'wriggling-pole' might be? It appears in double-entendre-filled 18th cent. ballads where the other tradesmen's 'tools' (ball-cock, needle, etc) are commonplace.
December 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Does anyone, a historian of cookery/bakery perhaps, know what a baker's 'wriggling-pole' might be? It appears in double-entendre-filled 18th cent. ballads where the other tradesmen's 'tools' (ball-cock, needle, etc) are commonplace.
@bcdreyer.social Here we are: The Prince and His Court ... and his autobiography.
December 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
@bcdreyer.social Here we are: The Prince and His Court ... and his autobiography.
Meanwhile, chez Substack I am enjoying a deeply pleasing input of new subscribers. I suspect this is due to the ever-generous @bcdreyer.social who, were he a traditional Brit. bookie rather than ‘America's Copy Editor,’ would surely be known as ‘Honest Benny: The One to Trust’.
December 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Meanwhile, chez Substack I am enjoying a deeply pleasing input of new subscribers. I suspect this is due to the ever-generous @bcdreyer.social who, were he a traditional Brit. bookie rather than ‘America's Copy Editor,’ would surely be known as ‘Honest Benny: The One to Trust’.
Next GDoS update on its way in Jan. '26. Many goodies, some remarkable predating. Think of it as my present to all. And, as they say, 'you need the luck of the nine blind bastards' to find this lot. Bollox! you need my dedicated, skilful contributors. As for the fortunate nine, I haven't a clue.
December 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Next GDoS update on its way in Jan. '26. Many goodies, some remarkable predating. Think of it as my present to all. And, as they say, 'you need the luck of the nine blind bastards' to find this lot. Bollox! you need my dedicated, skilful contributors. As for the fortunate nine, I haven't a clue.
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The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
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It seems like a small thing, but I tend to notice what pronouns people use when they refer to animals. Here's a new blog post about it: stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/a...
A list of animals who
The recent death of the great Jane Goodall brought me back to an old post about the use of who-pronouns with non-human animals, as in ‘swallows who flew past her window’, as opposed to ‘swallows th…
stancarey.wordpress.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It seems like a small thing, but I tend to notice what pronouns people use when they refer to animals. Here's a new blog post about it: stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/a...
Sorry, but I must add: the Economist includes a wonderful all-singing, all-dancing (OK, by lexicographic standards) graphic that deals, seasonably, with
Getting drunk
Being drunk
Being hungover
Glorious stuff. Now I must persuade the creator(s) do do it for every Timeline of Slang
Getting drunk
Being drunk
Being hungover
Glorious stuff. Now I must persuade the creator(s) do do it for every Timeline of Slang
December 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sorry, but I must add: the Economist includes a wonderful all-singing, all-dancing (OK, by lexicographic standards) graphic that deals, seasonably, with
Getting drunk
Being drunk
Being hungover
Glorious stuff. Now I must persuade the creator(s) do do it for every Timeline of Slang
Getting drunk
Being drunk
Being hungover
Glorious stuff. Now I must persuade the creator(s) do do it for every Timeline of Slang
Were I wear a titfer (a beaver, dicer, golgotha, or any other of the 89 slang synonyms for 'hat'), it would be gratefully tipped to @lanegreene.bsky.social who wrote the piece, wherein you will also find @tonythorne007.bsky.social, Michael Adams and the late Eric Partridge.
December 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Were I wear a titfer (a beaver, dicer, golgotha, or any other of the 89 slang synonyms for 'hat'), it would be gratefully tipped to @lanegreene.bsky.social who wrote the piece, wherein you will also find @tonythorne007.bsky.social, Michael Adams and the late Eric Partridge.
Slang, and me, have a Christmas outing in the current double-issue of the Economist.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
What street talk reveals about Anglophone civilisation
From “strangle-goose” to “skibidi”, colloquial dictionaries struggle to keep up
www.economist.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Slang, and me, have a Christmas outing in the current double-issue of the Economist.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
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The word ‘whore’ is etymologically related to ‘charity’, ‘to caress’, ‘to cherish’, as well as Romance words such as French ‘cher’ and Spanish ‘caro’, which mean “dear”.
They all stem from a Proto-Indo-European word meaning “desired; loved”.
Zoom in on my new graphic to discover their stories:
They all stem from a Proto-Indo-European word meaning “desired; loved”.
Zoom in on my new graphic to discover their stories:
December 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The word ‘whore’ is etymologically related to ‘charity’, ‘to caress’, ‘to cherish’, as well as Romance words such as French ‘cher’ and Spanish ‘caro’, which mean “dear”.
They all stem from a Proto-Indo-European word meaning “desired; loved”.
Zoom in on my new graphic to discover their stories:
They all stem from a Proto-Indo-European word meaning “desired; loved”.
Zoom in on my new graphic to discover their stories: