• @JamesTBagg
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    177 days ago

    Don’t you put my name on that disappointing hot leaf water.

    • @AshLassay
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      6 days ago

      For anyone who doesn’t know that’s Cockney rhyming slang. Cup of Rosy Lee rhymes with Cup of Tea. But they often omit the last word so it becomes a Cup of Rosy.

      Another one is Apples which is slang for stairs. Since the full rhyming slang is Apples and Pears.

      • @Dasus
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        36 days ago

        Also, a very common one.

        “Blew a raspberry.”

        Raspberry tart, fart.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 days ago

        Most people don’t know that “let’s get down to brass tacks” is a rhyme for “let’s get down to the facts” as well.

    • Deebster
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      37 days ago

      What is Joe short for (in the coffee sense) in your mind? I know there’s a few theories, and the jamoke one seems the most plausible to me.

        • @Klear
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          16 days ago

          lmao gottem XD

      • southsamurai
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        16 days ago

        It isn’t that Joe is short for something coffee related, it’s that it’s short for Joseph, whereas James is just short for James

        Afaik, like you said, joe as in coffee doesn’t have a confirmed etymology. I tend to think the jamoke origin is most likely, though I’ve known a few Navy vets of the era claim up and down that that’s the origin that’s true (the Josephus Daniels alcohol ban story). I sure wouldn’t disagree that that’s where they ran into the term, but it isn’t definitive either.

    • TheRealKuni
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      26 days ago

      So perhaps “A cup of Jim” for tea?