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"Blood up" meaning?

saw this graffiti on the wall with the words written inside. Anyone know what it means?
  

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[nq:1]saw this graffiti on the wall with the words written inside. [/nq] It means you're excited and your adrenaline is pumping.

  • [nq:1]saw this graffiti on the wall with the words written inside.
  • [/nq] It means you're excited and your adrenaline is pumping.
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[nq:1]saw this graffiti on the wall with the words written inside. Anyone know what it means?[/nq]
It means you're excited and your adrenaline is pumping.
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[nq:2]saw this graffiti on the wall with the words written inside. Anyone know what it means?[/nq]
[nq:1]It means you're excited and your adrenaline is pumping.[/nq]
Adrenaline isn't normally pumped, it is only secreted. I suppose a biomedical engineer could rig up a pump for it though.

Speaking of graffiti, how much significance, I wonder, should we attach to 'Here I sit broken-h
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Charles Riggs filted:
[nq:1]Speaking of graffiti, how much significance, I wonder, should we attach to 'Here I sit broken-hearted, came to *** but only farted'.[/nq]
It was a much bigger deal back before they outlawed pay toilets..r
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[nq:1]Charles Riggs filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]Speaking of graffiti, how much significance, I wonder, should we attach to 'Here I sit broken-hearted, came to *** but only farted'.[/nq]
[nq:1]It was a much bigger deal back before they outlawed pay toilets..r[/nq]
As evidenced by the original form:
Here I sit all broken-hearted
Paid a penny but only farted.
Matti
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[nq:2]It was a much bigger deal back before they outlawed pay toilets..r[/nq]
Outlawed? Maybe in your neck of the woods. My brother-in-law was charged 30 cents in Munster* last week. Steep, I thought, as I'd only had to pay 10, albeit in a different convenience.
* (Germany)

Katy Jennison
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Wood Avens filted:
[nq:1]Outlawed? Maybe in your neck of the woods. My brother-in-law was charged 30 cents in Munster* last week. Steep, I thought, as I'd only had to pay 10, albeit in a different convenience.[/nq]
Yep, outlawed (in, as you say, my wood-neck)...one explanation was that the practice forced women to pay for a place to do what a man could do against any convenient wall..r
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[nq:1]Outlawed? Maybe in your neck of the woods. My brother-in-law was charged 30 cents in Munster* last week. Steep, I thought, as I'd only had to pay 10, albeit in a different convenience. * (Germany)[/nq]
That would be Munster, Germany, not Munster, Indiana.

John Varela
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[nq:1]As evidenced by the original form: Here I sit all broken-hearted Paid a penny but only farted.[/nq]
That's a bowdlerized version, which spoils the elegant internal rhyme of the REAL original form:
Here I sit all broken-hearted.
Paid to *** and only farted.
\\P. Schultz
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[nq:2]Charles Riggs filted: It was a much bigger deal back before they outlawed pay toilets..r[/nq]
[nq:1]As evidenced by the original form: Here I sit all broken-hearted Paid a penny but only farted.[/nq]
How do you know? I first saw it in the version I quoted. There in a Jewish deli, and you can't get much older than Jewish tradition.
Charles Riggs
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[nq:2]As evidenced by the original form: Here I sit all broken-hearted Paid a penny but only farted.[/nq]
[nq:1]That's a bowdlerized version, which spoils the elegant internal rhyme of the REAL original form: Here I sit all broken-hearted. Paid to *** and only farted.[/nq]
No, my version, the one I saw in a Jewish deli, is better. Yours has a pecuniary ring to it, mine expressing the sadne

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