0037: "Hyphen"

[yeup]

I think it was this comic that made me click the links in the top left corner in the hope of getting it on some kind of merch. Anyway. I got a short-ass hair cut at the weekend.

And laughed til I hurt when I told my friend about the new hair.

[jjane]

arg, i can't stop doing it!

& i would like someone to be in on it with me but i'm not quite sure how to explain it without printing out the comic & carrying it around with me.

[Adjustable_Air]

=D

[nameless]

hehe, I do this all the time at school. Once we had a substitute in pre-calc and he muttered something about us all being some "rude-ass kids", naturally, me and my friends could not contain our laughter, which only pissed him off any more.

[comedycartoon]

My friends and I always end up in situations where one of us says, "but fucking..." and it is paramount to point it out. That and phrases like "got it" or "not it" are said too quickly.

[Cytoplasm]

Oh jeez, from an e-mail I just read one of my friends wrote, "...such a kick-ass goalie anymore." and I mentally moved the hyphen over. I guess the comic had more effect than I thought it would.

[Master Gunner]

Oh jeez, from an e-mail I just read one of my friends wrote, "...such a kick-ass goalie anymore." and I mentally moved the hyphen over. I guess the comic had more effect than I thought it would.

Welcome to the dark side....we have some sweet ass-cookies.

[Cytoplasm]

Oh jeez, from an e-mail I just read one of my friends wrote, "...such a kick-ass goalie anymore." and I mentally moved the hyphen over. I guess the comic had more effect than I thought it would.

Welcome to the dark side....we have some sweet ass-cookies.

Gracias, I will enjoy these sweet ass-cookies.

[jjane]

the other day i thought of bad ass-burgers.

gross.

[Amarantha]

The other day I commented on a big ass-sports bar. That gave me pause for thought.

[ocarina_21]

I have a friend who is fond of big ass-milk shakes... I don't understand the fascination.

[shivasprogeny]

Today in my anatomy class:

Professor: The inferior gluteal nerve only innervates the gluteus maximus. I say "only" hesitantly because gluteus maximus is a big-ass muscle. Er...I mean a big muscle. Well actually it is a big ass-muscle...

[4=5]

I see what you did there... clever, very clever

[gwself]

Today at work, my boss was looking over my shoulder and said:

"Look at that big-ass fucking bubble"

And the image of a big ass-fucking bubble pops into my head. I couldn't explain to my boss what I found so funny.

Thank you xkcd.

[Fat Tony]

Hm...maybe Randall was misleading us with the talk about hyphens. I think this comic was really a shameless French automotive plug

[TV4Fun]

Ok, one more story involving ambiguous use of the word fuck. Last night, my friend and I were trying to go see The Dark Knight. What we did not realize was that our entire local nerd population was already there, and had already half an hour before the movie started formed a line that occupied most of the theater lobby and probably violated the fire code. Seeing this line greatly disheartened us and we decided we didn't really want to see the movie that badly and could wait a few days until the lines calmed down a little. As my friend pointed out, it would have been impossible, with us at the end of that long line to get anything approaching a good seat, or as he put it, had we waited in that line, we would have been "fucked in the seating position." I laughed for a good solid minute.

[Sythe]

There is something about this thread that really is full of pure win. It's very BAMF like, Bad Ass-Mother F*cker really.

[Lunch Meat]

Scene: The sandwich shop where I worked a year after high school.
Me: *starts to put the sliced turkey away*
My boss: What are you doing? Give me that damn turkey! *grabs turkey and puts it on a sammich*
Me: Why does it have to be damned turkey? Why don't we ever have any redeemed turkey?
My boss: It's god-damned turkey because I say it's god-damned turkey.
Me: I'm pretty sure God has more important things to do than go around damning turkeys just because you say so.

I think he was a little annoyed with me...

[BaufenBeast]

I just realized, it could get kind've awkward if someone told you that they had a "sweet-ass fucking awesome time!" Moreso if they had come from a petting zoo (which contained donkeys).

[lingomaniac88]

Along similar lines, here is part of the lyrics of the song Mandelbrot Set by Jonathan Coulton:

Mandelbrot Set you’re a Rorschach Test on fire
You’re a day-glo pterodactyl
You’re a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
You’re one badass fucking fractal

The Mandelbrot set is into butt sex. Who knew?

[scarletmanuka]

The Mandelbrot set is into butt sex. Who knew?

Chaos theory porn... "Oh, Julia!"

[MadFrank]

I remember a friend of mine talking about a "huge-ass crack" in the glass of a shop window
Also, "sweet-ass cheese" and "fat-ass salesman" are two other funny ones that I've heard.

[guyy]

Yesterday I heard someone call herself a "grown-ass woman."

Unfortunately I had read this comic and moved the hyphen without thinking...I'm not sure I want to know what that means.

[Toam]

If I am speaking to someone who I know reads XKCD I make sure I move the hyphen one word to the left when I speak.

eg, "That's a-sweet ass car"

Then I'm covered.

[BwaHaHa]

Today in my cafeteria, the girl in front of me in line told her friend she was waiting for some weird-ass lasagna. Needless to say, I found it slightly more amusing than lasagna should have been.

...ass lasagna...

[lingomaniac88]

I just remembered this scene from Family Guy:

Peter: Brian, Stewie's party is gonna suck. The only things I could get on short notice was the cake and that big-ass piñata.
*shows Brian a piñata in the shape of an ass*
Brian: I sure hope candy comes out of that.

[Unbalanced]

Just a couple days ago, somebody said "Wow, he has big-ass lips".

My friend and I cracked up.

[Prince Myshkin]

I did this to myself today when I drove past a pothole and thought "that's a big-ass hole"

[ClassholeInTraining]

Wow I thought I was the only one who did the jacket thing regulary

[msulis]

I couldn't stop laughing at this sign on Bourbon Street...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/msulis/4437840110/

I kept saying "boy I sure could go for a nice ass-beer right now... I'd even order a HUGE one if I could find it". my poor wife, the things she has to tolerate.


(i know i eliminated the hyphen entirely in my story, but it reads a little more obvious for the uninitiated)

[markrokosmos]

All of you DO realize that the expression is "sweet as", not "ass", right? It's origin isn't the booty, but an incomplete simile. Something is "sweet as" in the same way that it is "sweet as" (sugar). Then it got hijacked into an adjective. That's one "sweet as" bike. I guess it sounds like "ass", but that's all the expression has in common with an ass. That said... whatever.

[scarletmanuka]

All of you DO realize that the expression is "sweet as", not "ass", right? It's origin isn't the booty, but an incomplete simile. Something is "sweet as" in the same way that it is "sweet as" (sugar). Then it got hijacked into an adjective. That's one "sweet as" bike. I guess it sounds like "ass", but that's all the expression has in common with an ass. That said... whatever.

I don't believe that's true. Look, here's the abstract of a linguistics paper about it (page 5).

[pueben]

From The Unicorn from the Stars (1908). The edition in my book-shelf actually uses a hyphen: ass-car is written twice in the first act alone. I took a camera-picture, but the card-reader in my lap-top seems to be broken to-day, and I can't find my camera-cable.

[Roipoisson]

A friend posted a Facebook status about a vicious storm we were enduring. I replied with a comment about the "big-ass pecan branch" that had just fallen in my yard. He completed the exchange with, "mmm, been a long time since I've had ass-pecans." Touché.

[Sean Quixote]

I like doing this only in the most suggestively ambiguous situations,

Ha, I couldn't help snickering after a classmate tried to sell me tickets to a picnic with "big-ass burgers." According to her, they're quite delicious.

like this. It sounds to me like the evil autism spectrum industry is at it again...

[Ronsonic]

Adjective ass-noun.

[UniqueScreenname]

All of you DO realize that the expression is "sweet as", not "ass", right? It's origin isn't the booty, but an incomplete simile. Something is "sweet as" in the same way that it is "sweet as" (sugar). Then it got hijacked into an adjective. That's one "sweet as" bike. I guess it sounds like "ass", but that's all the expression has in common with an ass. That said... whatever.

I don't believe that's true. Look, here's the abstract of a linguistics paper about it (page 5).

That may be the most awesome paper I've ever seen.

[HeffayGuap]

I thought I was the only one who did this, until I read this comic. Good to know that I'm not alone in the universe of ass-nouns.