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Time travel is complicated

Jun 29, 2016 02:41

On Monday night's Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, David Tennant answered the call, but the Doctor was unhelpful.

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shyfoxling July 4 2016, 22:05:39 UTC

Is "wiggy slice" actually making use of an existing insult in a more colorful than usual combination, like the ones with "plum", "numpty", and "ballbag"? Or is it more like saying "you absolute walnut", using a word not normally meant as an insult?

rose_cat July 5 2016, 10:00:40 UTC

I have no idea. Maybe it's because I'm American. Perhaps somebody will read this and enlighten us? (I have email notification for comments, so if they do I'll message you.)

I did google "wiggy slice" just now. I didn't learn anything more about it, but the first two pages of results were almost entirely reports of and references to this event. It wasn't until page 18 -- the last -- that they stopped.

shyfoxling July 5 2016, 23:15:34 UTC

Oh, it was just a question to the world at large. I'm American as well. I did try Googling "slice" just to see if I could get anything obvious, but it's too ordinary a word and used for too many other things by itself (unlike "numpty" which gets you the proper definition right at the top; I suppose "plum" is in the same category as "slice", but I happened to already be familiar with it).

I figured the whole phrase "wiggy slice" was probably not actually a thing in the same way that "weapons-grade plum" wasn't (I assume? although maybe it will be now!), a kind of angry silliness used for emphasis, but I wondered if "slice" alone referred to anything in particular.