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Elnur Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Well,...me/my...and call me..

Hey everybody. I'm watching the sitcom "Friends" and it contains some phrases that i can't understand or figure out. Here's one of them: "Well, slap my ass and call me Judy" . Also, there are lots of expressions like this. I was wondering what they mean and do they all have the same meaning?

Thanks in advanced)
  

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I found Jon Lovitz saying "smack", not "slap". Either way, it denotes astonishment. Nobody knows why.

— Enoon

  • I found Jon Lovitz saying "smack", not "slap".
  • Either way, it denotes astonishment.
  • Nobody knows why.
  • The variations are infinite.
  • " The expression is not very common and is quite coarse and juvenile.
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I found Jon Lovitz saying "smack", not "slap". Either way, it denotes astonishment. Nobody knows why. The variations are infinite. I've heard "Slap my face and call me Sally." The expression is not very common and is quite coarse and juvenile. The reason they wrote it into a sitcom is that Lovitz is made ridiculous by saying it.

There are other similar expressions. A rustic one is "Well,
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Thank you, enoon for the answer. I actually read the script of that episode and it's possible that what is written in the script is different from the actual lines. So, you suggest not to use those kind of expressions to represent suprise?
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ElnurThank you, enoon for the answer. I actually read the script of that episode and it's possible that what is written in the script is different from the actual lines. So, you suggest not to use those kind of expressions to represent suprise?
Right, although I'm sure nobody would give you any trouble about it to your face, judoka. The expression is silly and
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By the way, i am not actually judoka)) the guy in that picture also have the name 'Elnur' and he was a winner the last Olympic Games(that is why i've chosen his picture as a profile image), anyways..

Thanks again
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