That went down like a lead balloon

came here for GO, but it's kinda weird, so I'm staying.

[wee-english-fella]

society of gentlemen characters as john mulaney quotes

harry:

[ID: john mulaney saying: "i'm so horny and angry all the time" end ID]

julius:

[ID: john mulaney saying "i'll keep all my emotions right here [gesturing to his chest], and then one day, i'll die" end ID]

dominic:

[ID: john mulaney saying "hey, you could pour soup in my lap and i'll probably apologize to you." end ID]

silas:

[ID: john mulaney saying "i'm gonna be a Democrat" end ID]

richard:

[ID: john mulaney saying "none of us really know our fathers. anyway..." end ID]

david:

[ID: john mulaney saying "and you replied 'hey, do you want me to kill that guy for you? because it sounds like he sucks and i will totally kill that guy for you.'" end ID]

ash:

[ID: john mulaney saying "hey, can you help me out, i'm very gay i'd like a few dollars" end ID]

francis:

[ID: john mulaney saying "'cause he never forgets a bitch, ever." end ID]

will & jon (@ the latest ricardians related issue):

[ID: john mulaney saying "you know those days when you're like 'this might as well happen'?" end ID]

[thetimelinesofslang]

Author’s Note

These timelines, based on the Timeglider.com software system,  have been taken from my ever-expanding database of slang, which was also the source of Green’s Dictionary of Slang, published in 2010. Slang covers many areas, but there are certain major themes which have dominated the vocabulary for over 500 years. To sum them up as sex, drugs and, in its widest sense, rock ‘n’ roll wouldn’t be so far from the truth. Plus crime, drunkenness, insults, racism and a number of other of our less savoury but quite inescapable activities. What you will find here are the first examples of what I intend to be a look at all of them. Prepare to be amused, informed, even shocked. Subversive, cynical, witty and sometimes cruel, whether we like it or not, slang is humanity at its most human.

Jonathon Green aka 'Mr Slang’

click a link below to view a timeline 

Intercourse pt 1: The Basics

Intercourse pt 2

Intercourse pt 3

Penis

Penis Click-Through

Vagina Click-Through

Breasts

The Body

Arse (Down and Dirty)

Defecation & Urination

Masturbate

Masturbation

Commercial Sex

Homosexuality

Gay and Lesbian

Women pt 1

Women pt 2

Men (Click-Through)

drunk

Alcohol

Pubs and Bars

Mad

Fool

religion

race: white european

race: people of colour 

Police

Relationships

Death

larceny

Con Men etc

Drugs part 1: Narcotics:https

Money

Rich and Poor:

Jobs & Occupations

Exclamations 1 (Oaths, Hell & Damnation etc)

Exclamations 2 (Dismissal)

Good

Sources of Slang

NB: The purpose of these timelines is to illustrate the wide range of terms that slang uses for a single topic. They are not a dictionary, with definitions and etymologies, simply an example of slang’s remarkable creativity over time. Their aim is to inform, but also to entertain. I do not pretend that all of them are in common use or ever were. What I do know is that I have found them in print, in lyrics, in scripts, online or elsewhere. There are certainly more that I have yet to discover. I must also add that the dates are not set in stone. Slang research is always changing what we know and there is only one rule: words are always older than you think. When I find proof, I shall make the necessary changes.

[theonegoldring]

Just read 6 books by KJ Charles one after the other.

Slippery Creatures is kinky James Bond.

A Seditious Affair is BDSM Dickens.

A Gentleman Position is Clueless with dandies.

We are indeed blessed to have this woman and her books in our world.

[theonegoldring]

Still reading. Read the three Magpie Lord books and went on to read the spin off "ADHD and depression on a road trip". So much fun!

[theonegoldring]

It's time for Band Sinister, or "Sense and Sensibility meets The Rocky Horror Picture Show".

[theonegoldring]

"and while Crane found it hard to get excited about illusions when he had the genuine article in his bed, he was endlessly entertained by Stephen’s rapt reaction to trickery."

Meanwhile, Stephen:

[theonegoldring]

Helen maybe launched a thousand war ships, but Achilles and Patroclus have launched a thousand ship-wars.

[hoursago]

crowley receives a commendation just for starting all the book vs. e-reader fights that make everyone mad

[sadbugbois]

I know its late but I needed to express my love still <3

(Edit: poem by Shel Silverstein)

[theonegoldring]

I want to thank you for Pikachu Stephen Day, I can't help smiling and laughing when I see it, pure treasure.

My pleasure! He is. 😄

[theonegoldring]

There isn't enough fanart of Stephen Day. There you go.

[theonegoldring]

Relistening to A Seditious Affair.

Mind-forg'd manacles as BDSM props.

[sylwritesstuff]

Newton Pulsifer is the smartest character in Good Omens. Change my mind.

[whispsofwind]

I don't think I can change your mind???

Out of all the characters, Newt is the one who is both book smarts (very good and quick at researching, able to draw correct conclusions with very little data, can think outside the box), and has some common sense (can be very practical if nothing else). He's just very shy and awkward, possibly a bit spineless, and plagued by a curse that was funny in 1990 but actually quite upsetting in 2019 UK (just think how much is done online nowadays! Jobs, degrees, even healthcare).

Tracy is a woman of common sense but not exactly brilliant, Anathema is brilliant but limited by the narrow path set by her family, and Aziraphale and Crowley are incredibly intelligent and also incredibly dumb at the same time.

Newt is a smart cookie and deserves more love.

[krakensdottir]

Newt compensates for being cursed in the 21st century by having the most actual practical intelligence of anyone in the story.

Now, obviously the celestial/infernal beings have some cognitive advantages over humans, if you’re going into what ‘smart’ means. If we were measuring breadth of knowledge and ability to bring it all together to solve complex problems, we’d be talking Aziraphale. If we’re talking creativity - especially as regards causing trouble, and then getting out of it - that’s Crowley. But both of them are also very used to relying on miracles, and so they’re prone to making very basic mistakes about how the world works.

Newt does not have that advantage. Newt is at a serious disadvantage when it comes to how the world works. So Newt makes the sensible decisions. Newt spots the obvious flaws. Newt knows when it’s time to Get The Hell Out. These are skills no one else in the story seems to have mastered. Newt is 1000% the only thing resembling a Voice Of Reason in Good Omens and I love him.

[amuseoffyre]

Newton Pulsifer looks at things and asks “yes, but why?” - he asks this in relation to science, to logic, to prophecy, to witches, to apocalypses. He’s a man who likes to know how things tick and will poke at them, even when he knows he may not get an answer.

He’s a man who does a job Shadwell has been doing for 50 years and ends up finding the sodding Antichrist on his first day out. Aziraphale and Crowley couldn’t find him. Aziraphale only pinpointed him because of the book. But Newt? He used mathematics and science knowledge to see where things didn’t make sense and pointed himself in that direction, even before Shadwell got the call from Aziraphale.

[whispsofwind]

Yes! This!

I'll be honest, one of my absolute favourite book bits is actually the one that discusses Newt's relationship with faith. And, the basic reason nothing ever sticks with him is that he just has so many questions, and no one gives him clear answers. Everyone is so sure about something, be it religion, atheism, the Universe. And Newt is there in a corner, raising his hand and going: "Yes, but why?"

And that's the approach he has about everything. He wants to know the whys and the hows, and I just love him for that

[theonegoldring]

It is impossible for me not to reblog this. I love Newt with all of my heart.

I also want to point out that he is not only the smartest character in the book, he is also so very kind and considerate. He is always compared to these masculine ideals (Superman, Casanova, a Jane Austin hero), always falling short, but somehow he's better than them. He's really there for Anathema, really lets her question and not pushing his opinion on her. He only asks "what do *you* want?". Even if it means she'll choose to leave him. He's brains and heart (and hair).

[theonegoldring]

Most people have a devil and an angel on their shoulders. I have Jonah and Ben (and Jonah is rather good at keeping Ben quiet).

[theonegoldring]

Just read 6 books by KJ Charles one after the other.

Slippery Creatures is kinky James Bond.

A Seditious Affair is BDSM Dickens.

A Gentleman Position is Clueless with dandies.

We are indeed blessed to have this woman and her books in our world.

[theonegoldring]

Still reading. Read the three Magpie Lord books and went on to read the spin off "ADHD and depression on a road trip". So much fun!

[theonegoldring]

Just read 6 books by KJ Charles one after the other.

Slippery Creatures is kinky James Bond.

A Seditious Affair is BDSM Dickens.

A Gentleman Position is Clueless with dandies.

We are indeed blessed to have this woman and her books in our world.

[elven-child]

A concept:

- “Because, underneath it all, Crowley was an optimist. If there was one rock-hard certainty that had sustained him through the bad times then it was utter surety that the universe would look after him.”

[tio-trile]

Oh, Crowley, you idiot, it was never the universe that’s looking out for you.

[theonegoldring]

This should be reblogged more

[whispsofwind]

I was working on a list of the etymology of names in Good Omens and I realized that Newt and Anathema's names kind of reference each other.

The Witchfinder Army practices exorcism by "bell, book and candle", which is in fact a method of excommunication by anathema.

On the other hand, the most famous newt related reference in the UK is possibly Shakespeare's Macbeth, with the three witches throwing eye of newt in their cauldron.

It's probably overreaching, but hey I am bored

[theniceandaccurategoodomensblog]

Interesting!

[theonegoldring]

I always assumed Newt's name is a Monty Python reference

[theniceandaccurategoodomensblog]

Yeah, I wondered about that myself!!

The other potential Monty Python reference that I spotted was Heaven's love of The Sound of Music. In the song Christmas in Heaven in The Meaning of Life they sing:

It's Christmas in Heaven.

There's great films on TV:

'The Sound of Music' twice an hour

And 'Jaws' One, Two, and Three

Plausible I think. They are within the same comedic tradition.

[theonegoldring]

I didn't know that!

Niel Gaiman told the Sounds of Music choice is due to being forced to go see it too many times when he was young (and finding it boring).

[whispsofwind]

I was working on a list of the etymology of names in Good Omens and I realized that Newt and Anathema's names kind of reference each other.

The Witchfinder Army practices exorcism by "bell, book and candle", which is in fact a method of excommunication by anathema.

On the other hand, the most famous newt related reference in the UK is possibly Shakespeare's Macbeth, with the three witches throwing eye of newt in their cauldron.

It's probably overreaching, but hey I am bored

[theniceandaccurategoodomensblog]

Interesting!

[theonegoldring]

I always assumed Newt's name is a Monty Python reference