Comments on: Chips Ahoy!

By: Chris W.

Chris W. — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:12:43 +0000

I was at the original Whole Foods in Austin very late at night one time & they were playing an old Johnny Cash song on the overhead speaker. An employee cut in and asked, “What’s B****R mean?” To which the manager replied, “Oh (expletive deleted) — there’s a customer in the store!”

Who could have ever guessed those two phrases used in combination would help me better understand the export law blog a decade later?

Enjoy your weekend everyone! And Clif, nice work picking up on that photo with Thacker’s name in it.

chris

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:00:09 +0000

I learn the BEST things from this blog.

By: Clif Burns

Clif Burns — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:30:13 +0000

For any fellow yanks who might not understand the “Oops. B****R” reference, I won’t spell it out, this being a family-oriented blog and all. You might translate the phrase in American slang simply as “Oh (expletive deleted)”

And as a hint on how to fill in the missing letters in B****R, it’s a form of a slang word that might fill in for the missing word in this phrase — “Rum, (missing naughty word), and the lash” — which refers to the three things that used to propel the British Navy. The B-word here no longer directly refers to that practice, but is just a general, all-round expletive, much like the P-word in French no longer refers to someone who is a P-word but instead is just a substitute for the M-word. Or better yet, when you really want a naughty exclamation of annoyance in French, you can combine them into “P-word de M-word!!” — a wonderful expression if you’ve picked up a hot skillet and burned the living daylights out of your hand.

By: CG

CG — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:38:43 +0000

Do you think that in this Voluntary Somebody Else Disclosure they have an OOPS B****R section under the heading of how the violation came to light?