Fun Things Learned From Etymonline

[themeletor]

(The Online Etymology Dictionary)

1: NEW DRUNK PHRASE - half seas over. being a phrase with a high Nauticality Quotient and also much fun in that no-one apparently knows quite what it really means.

2: OLD DRUNK PHRASE - three sheets to the wind (see entry 2). being a phrase with which I am loath to part, but which was apparently first recorded in the 19th c., making it colloquial contraband[1] in PotC-fic *weep*



[1] - unless, of course[2], one uses the "ZOMBIE MONKEY!" defense, in which case anything goes, even periwigs + bucket-top boots.[3]

[2] - I originally typed this as "curse" and find that amusingly appropriate.

[3] - I am now assaulted by the image of Jack in a periwig, and find it impressively disturbing.

Comments

[mme-of-achilles.livejournal.com]

This is off subject but did you notice that the actor that played lord cutler in DMC was Mr Collins in PRide and PRedjudice.