enough said
enough said
agreed.
there\'s worse though....
\'mary\'
Thank you for being the first to say it! Saying 'thon is totally wrong! Worse than the dreaded Half-Mary! Why do we have to abbreviate every damn thing?
I have ran a couple of 'thons and I don't have a problem with the word. I think it is sweet! And I also don't have a problem with half mary. I think it is sweet too!
I'm bout it, bout it.
I'll be thonin it, thonin it in Btown.
The word is THONG, my American friend. Now turn around and give me chance to kiss both cheeks.
--Borat
It grates on me also, but I never thought it was worth starting a thread for it.
Can't wait for the masses to start referring to a triathlon as a lon.
anEconomist wrote:
I can't stand the word thon!
Hey mist, I totally agree with you.
who talks like that?
what is interesting is how, linguistically speaking, thon began to mean something. you have walkathons, phoneathons, etc. as if thon is a suffix with meaning. in actuality, thon is just the ending of the city marathon and means nothing linguistically. a similar case is burger from the word hamburger. now there are veggieburgers, cheeseburgers, etc when burger, originally, had no meaning at all.
lite rite wrote:
I have ran a couple of 'thons and I don't have a problem with the word. I think it is sweet! And I also don't have a problem with half mary. I think it is sweet too!
Sweet like "flippin' sweet leg-hair shaving, dude," or sweet like "oh, sweet little ducks and bunnies stenciled onto a country-blue piece of wood. For cute!"
only gays say "half mary"
spokane xc wrote:
what is interesting is how, linguistically speaking, thon began to mean something. you have walkathons, phoneathons, etc. as if thon is a suffix with meaning. in actuality, thon is just the ending of the city marathon and means nothing linguistically. a similar case is burger from the word hamburger. now there are veggieburgers, cheeseburgers, etc when burger, originally, had no meaning at all.
burger comes from the place in germany where the sandwich was invented. it is called "Hamburg, Germany."
retard
I tnink you're denying Lord Sandwich his props, dude. Now that AIN'T sweet.
chuckD wrote:
only gays say "half mary"
like you just did?
do 3 wrote:
Can't wait for the masses to start referring to a triathlon as a lon.
No, it always has and always will be a Tri.
Its one of the few purely running slang words there are. We should keep perpetuating its use. There are too few.
I agree "Mary" makes me think of Elton John and "half mary" - Clay Aiken.
spokane xc wrote:
you have walkathons, phoneathons, etc. as if thon is a suffix with meaning ... a similar case is burger from the word hamburger. now there are veggieburgers, cheeseburgers, etc.
And as a spinoff of the word alcoholic, we get workaholic, chocoholic, etc. There's no such word as workahol. Or chocohol. Technically, since the suffix "ic" is added to the word alcohol to describe an addict to alcohol, an addict to work should be called a workic.
Then there's the practice of adding the suffix "gate" to describe any criminal activity, scandal or coverup by a U.S. President. The Watergate is the name of a hotel, and "gate" has nothing to do with sneaky, illegal doings by an elected leader, yet it's common usage now to refer to Contragate, Whitewatergate, and so on. Last I heard, there was no such hotel or any other place called Contragate.