
Welcome to a Wednesday, and my chance to showcase a word (or in today’s case, words) that do not get enough of an airing. They are weird, wonderful or just downright wacky. Now today I have decided to indulge in a bit of juvenile humour to celebrate the fact that despite just turning 50, I am still young at heart!
The words I have chosen are still used, especially in my house as I do not like some of the alternatives (well at least as far as Miss Hap is concerned)! I think our American friends use the expression to mean something else, so it is even more amusing when I hear it!
Blow off. Yes this is to let rip, or let one off, you know when your nan walks around the supermarket and surreptitiously lets off a couple of squeaky ones, then looks around to see who the culprit is, type of word. It is farting and fluffing, trumping and trumpeting, bottom burping at its finest.
It is the sudden stench that hits you when you realise you have been hit by the silent but violent attack. Parping and puffing, passing wind, and having a bit of gas!
One thing for sure, it always makes me giggle when I hear it!
Blow off somehow reminds me of fart? 😀 I don’t know why! HAHA!
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Ha HA! 🙂
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I don’t know why! HAHA 😀
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I haven’t heard this used for parping and fluffing (great words too, Judy). Here in the US, to blow off means to “not show up.” We blow off appointments and parties and work days. This is one of those language differences that could result in some laughs 🙂
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HA HA! I love it that it has a totally different meaning in the US, and it makes me laugh even more when someone uses it innocently! 🙂
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Toilet humour runs in the family….. Love anything of this nature! I can never really keep a straight face!
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Me neither, I am very childish in this way! 🙂
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That’s why we stay so young sis!!!
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Could well be! 🙂
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😊😊😊
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Well I have been in a lift with a chap who surreptitiously blew off and kept a straight face 😄
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HA HA! Oh that can’t have been pleasant! 🙂
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It wasn’t!
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Oh I do love me a bit of fart humour, and there is nothing worse than the supermarket silent but deadlies, I have been guilty of a few myself. Be careful not to voice it though, there are still some who work off the rule, the one who smelt it dealt it lol
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Ha HA!, Or, the one who said the rhyme did the crime! 🙂
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Farting? That’s like a game show in the house when we all want to be naughty :D. Silent violent attack indeed.
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HA HA!! 🙂
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I remember a rhyme from infant school:
Show off, show off
Pick your nose
And blow off!
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HaHA! That is hilarious, love it! 🙂
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Haha….. what I really love about that word is your explanation, Sis!!! 😂😂
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Oh, I love a bit of silliness as you know Erika and this was as silly as it gets! 🙂
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I definitely do know! So much fun being silly together 😃
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Bloffer Johnson! Taught French and let one go everytime we messed up avoir! Haven’t thought the old rifting subjunctive for years. Thanks Judy
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Ha HA!! I bet you all got it wrong on purpose! 🙂
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Moi!
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Yes, toi! 🙂
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That is a new phrase for me. Or maybe not a new phrase, but a new use for the phrase. As you know, blowing off here means ignoring or postponing on purpose. Now I’ll think of this every time I hear it!
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I am glad that you will be smirking whenever you hear this now! 🙂
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Truly funny!
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Glad you enjoyed that 🙂
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This is new to me. Crazy hilarious. 😀 😀 😀
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One of my favourite expressions!
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😀 😀 😀
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This really gives new meaning to “Blowing off steam”, over here on our side of the pond. We just say fart, cut the cheese, barking spiders or “stepping on a frog.” All so silly!
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Ha HA! I love ‘cut the cheese.’
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Good choice.
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Thanks Linda 🙂
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I’ve always heard this term in conjunction with avoiding something. More like “after a night of partying, I decided to blow off work.” That’s definitely a different meaning than the one you talk about. I would call sneaky farts in a public place ‘crop dusting’ or ‘carpet bombing’.
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HA HA! I like both the ‘crop dusting’ and the ‘carpet bombing’ expressions! 🙂
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Hello, and thanks for stopping by. I am Judy, in my (very) early fifties and decided that life definitely gets more interesting as it goes on! I am a wife and a mum and have just finished University as a Registered Nurse, after having worked as an Associate Practitioner in the NHS. I am also a poet and the author of my debut book, 'Rhymes of the Times.' I love to laugh, and I love rhyming words too, so I joined the two together, and my book was born. I am currently working on another book in the series also. I am a prolific blogger and enjoy writing funny stories, anecdotes, and anything really that takes my fancy.
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