{"id":24723,"date":"2019-06-28T11:26:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24723"},"modified":"2019-06-28T11:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:26:04","slug":"the-source-of-that-thing-dad-always-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/28\/the-source-of-that-thing-dad-always-says\/","title":{"rendered":"The Source Of That Thing Dad Always Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, sometimes, I’ll use a type of speech that I’ll just call an Elaborated Pronoun<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You know, that<\/em> as a pronoun generally relates to something visible or is otherwise fresh in mind; I want that<\/em>.<\/p>\n

However, I have been known to elaborate that<\/em> by adding an antecedent bad oscar<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It came out when I was talking about fixing something for one of my boys, and I referred to the it<\/em> as that bad oscar<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Urban Dictionary<\/a> says bad Oscar is slang for a hot dog or cheap sandwich. That’s not where I got it, though.<\/p>\n

Back when I was at the university, one of my closest friends lived with his mother, who was a woman kept by a fellow who had a son of his own (kind of like a very abbreviated Brady Bunch). My friend considered the young man, who as sixteen or seventeen at the time, to be his half-brother, so he hung around with us from time to time; he was even the designated driver on my 21st birthday, when we went to a bowling alley and I had a glass of Miller and a sloe gin and Seven before the moonlight bowling.<\/p>\n

For some reason, this kid used that phrase to refer to things that were not sandwiches of any sort.<\/p>\n

Twenty-seven years later, and I still say it from time to time. And that “kid” is over forty somewhere now. No word on whether he continues to use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, sometimes, I’ll use a type of speech that I’ll just call an Elaborated Pronoun. You know, that as a pronoun generally relates to something visible or is otherwise fresh in mind; I want that. However, I have been known to elaborate that by adding an antecedent bad oscar. It came out when I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddy-always-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24726,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723\/revisions\/24726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}