SKULLS

[hammster]

A conversation with hazellwood about an unfortunate field trip to a mortuary (seriously who takes a bus full of troubled teenage girls, many of who have lost a loved one, to a mortuary? for school??? OH YEAH THAT WON'T TRAUMATIZE ANYONE!!! WORST IDEA EVER) which I was made to go on when I was 13 has lead to my reading the entirety of the death portal on

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[lilpocketninja]

you'd think with all the bullshit cultural exportation we do

that other places would have run with OUR BEST HOLIDAY EVER

but no :(

[hammster]

I mean people do it, it's just that nobody else can quite grasp the... .... over the topness and why it's necessary (I CANNOT IMAGINE WHY)

except maybe Japan .........

[lilpocketninja]

IDK IDK

how sad.

[lilpocketninja]

but also ilu for finding a way to reuse the boy holding skull tag

[lucieandco]

Oh, I love Wikipedia. These are all splendid expressions. If only there were contexts to use them other than 'X is dead'. (Although I suppose you could use them for 'iz ded', too. 'i r wearin pine overcoat'.)

SKELETON TABLEWARE

[hammster]

IT'S A GOOD PLACE

I like that they sort them by type, too, like "polite", "slang", "informal", "humorous".

..sdfglds DEATH LOLCATS.

[lucieandco]

I love that
1. they point out the danger of confusing 'off the hooks' with 'off the hook'
2. there is an expression that is based on a spelling alphabet version of an abbreviation of 'tits up'
3. Sometimes used as 'this mortal coil' to refer to the fact that one is alive in a troublesome way. ALIVE IN A TROUBLESOME WAY

[hammster]

yes

as opposed to alive in a convenient way, obviously

[skepticalboffin]

That Wiki article missed one: Dave Barry's infamous "Gone to the big [ ] in the sky." Eg. Andy Warhol went to that big Campbell's soup can in the sky. Or, my computer went to that big hard disk in the sky. ;) Still my favourite expression of all time.

And I *wish* people here celebrated Halloween!

[hammster]

NO NO THAT'S TOTALLY IN THERE it totally has "big [location] in the sky"!!!