I grew up in Southern California, one of the slang terms we used was ‘pinch’.  It had the exact same meaning as poop or crap (or other profanities that will get you scolded on here), but a lot more socially acceptable because people had no clue what you were talking about.  So, every time I see the word pinch, it’s the first place my mind goes because it’s the vernacular to which I was accustomed to since my early teens.  So headlines like:

“Tips to taking big pinches”

“Favorite time to pinch”

“How often do you pinch?”

Just make me laugh to no end.  Some of the better ‘pinch’ comments I even send to my old friend back in Cali for him to have a good giggle:

“My advice would be to take one pinch per nostril”

“It’s all about placing the pinch just inside the nostril, so as to make it bulge slightly, and inhaling quickly but gently.”

That last one actually made my shoot coffee out of my nose.

So, I’ve been a part of an inside joke that really makes me laugh quite a lot.  So, you guys keep talking about pinches, and know it brings me joy on a daily basis.  Yes, I know that it is the proper term for snuff held between the fingers, but it’s just still damn funny in my mind.

you seem like a nice guy and all but I refuse to take a pinch for you.

Where I grew up we used that term as well  for the same thing. But I also grew up knowing what a pinch of snuff was…

Well when I was growing up the first time I saw someone diping I thought it was dirt.

I’m never going to be able to say ‘Pinch’ again without smiling. 

@ Toque I guess that would be one form of beatitude or grace.

Cooking shows would crack me up sometimes too:  Take out some oregano, take a pinch, and sprinkle some over your chicken.  Doesn’t that smell great?

Most of them would say something like ‘a pinch of salt’ or something that was ‘a pinch of …’  The ‘of snuff’ part is never used on here (because we all know what it is in reference too), but it makes it laugh worthy.

I have a gutter mind.  Just like @mikemoose on the Out of Context thread.

we all have gutter minds. That’s probably cause if we didn’t none of us would have gotten made.

I’ve only heard “pinch a loaf”, and only in the last 10-15 years. Must be a regional thing.

I have heard “pinch a loaf”, but i always thought “to pinch something” was to steal something, at least in some countrys vernacular.

Potpoe, me too, always thought “pinched” = “nicked”=“chiped”=“swiped” etc.

Well I guess you wouldn’t want to pinch yourself to see if your dreaming then would you?

oooooh!

I’ve been called out!

@Dogwalla : Yes I do have a gutter mind sometimes LOL

“Pinch a big loaf!”

My Dad used to be an upholsterer and he when he was an apprentice was sent round to an old lady’s house to repair a chair. He was using guilt headed upholsterer’s studs to repair the fancy old armchair and the little old lady, rather posh and blue rinsed asked him what they were. ‘Turds madam’ he said. She referred to them a few more times in the conversation to which my 19 at the time Dad stifled his giggles. A short while later, when he had left, she called the office saying how much she loved the nice, helpful young man’s turds and could he come back with more because she wanted him to put new turds on the rest of her armchairs.

Thats actually pretty funny. Could you imagine answering the phone and have some old lady on the other end asking you to send a young man over to put turds on her chair LOL!!

I used to have a hat that said “Got root?”

My grandmother ask me what it said and I told her it was a Unix thing.  She told me that was strange and terrible.

I have to deal with a client whose business is pre-cast construction erections (sometimes just called “erections”).  I do have to admire anyone who can make a living out of the erection business. 

XD I love how as guys we never stop finding humor in bodily functions.

Now you know why I do not allow anybody (including myself) to stick their fingers into my snuffboxes!

There have always been opportunities for misunderstandings when it came to universal slang – when we get down to regional colloquialisms, the opportunities become legion.

As Winston Churchill said when talking about the Brits and the Yanks: “We are two peoples separated by a common language.”

@howdydave reminded me of this, lol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2cCZX106AE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2cCZX106AE

well nevermind then, the youtube link doesn’t appear to be showing up…but look up “Professor Elemental What’s Your English?”

My English is grate… I ain’t never made but one gramatical eror in my life and I seen it when I done it and I taken it back!

d’oh, and how could I forget…when everyone talks about “rubbing out” their plugs and flakes for their pipe.

ah harlequin if you think it’s a double meaning thing you aren’t smoking your pipe correctly. Just thought you should know.

There are lots of folks around here that haven’t been out of a 100 mile radius their whole lives, and that’s cool. I suspect that to be the case around the planet. The internet has changed things quite a bit and that’s very cool, finding humor in it all is the best part.

I have to pinch right now, I’ll have a sniff of brandy or a snort.What does it all mean ?

I’ve actually seen a couple of stoners, at a bar, sniff a small amount of vodka.  They looked worse than any bad snuff face that has come out of my body.  They compared the hit to an elicit substance that I will not mention on here.  My friend and I were asking the bartender about it later and he said, “If they’re stupid enough to do it, I’ll let them do it for free.”

Terrifying.

You clown!

If you want something to sniff about British Airways is now charging a pound to use the toilet on it’s flights. That’s right, you have to spena a pound to pinch a penny.

What does it cost to in the mile high club? Probably two to pound, right?

@Dogwalla:  That doesn’t sound any worse than a tequila suicide.  I’ve never actually seen anybody do them, and have a suspicion it’s just another groundless moral panic like eyeballing vodka, but it’s supposed to be taking a shot of tequila, snorting the salt and squeezing the lime in your eye.  Really have to wonder what makes people come up with these sorts of things sometimes.

Then again, I remember at Boy Scout camp a friend and I had the bright idea that we’d look like real bad asses if we snorted pixie sticks.  It’s hard to look like a bad ass when you’re snorting powdered sugar and start to cry.

Every kid snorts pixie stix at least once. A friend of mine, who is now 23 years old, still does it from time to time just because she likes it, lol. But she is an odd one. The tequila suicide is just an attention grabber for desperate people…or a group of really drunk guys trying to out stupid eachother…

The way someone comes up with something like the world is safer so an alarming level idioticy isn’t the death sentence it used to be.