i'm at a customer's house!
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From: VA
Originally Posted by j9fd3s' post='876364' date='Jun 27 2007, 10:40 AM
get a fan, turn it on high, and throw **** into it!
This expression alludes to the unmissable effects of **** being thrown into an electric fan. It appears to have originated in the 1930s. I can't say better than 'appears' as the earliest citation of it that I can find is in the 1967 edition of Eric Partridge's A dictionary of slang and unconventional English:
"Wait till the major hears that! Then the ****'ll hit the fan!"
Partridge lists the phrase as Canadian, circa 1930, but as he gives no supporting evidence we have to go by the 1967 date, although it is undoubtedly earlier.
Other, more polite, forms of the phrase, involving eggs, pie, soup and 'stuff', can certainly be dated from the USA in the 1940s. For example, Max Chennault's Up Sun, 1945:
"Sounds like the stuff was about to hit the fan."
The Fresno Bee Republican, May 1948, reported on a psychiatrists' convention, under the heading See How Brain Boys Also Run Wild:
"However, once that opening point was settled, the psychiatrists entered wholly in the business of the convention, which culminated, of course, in the selection of officers for the coming year. And that, as the saying goes, was when the soup hit the fan."
The other versions followed soon afterwards.
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From: Mike is a Liar!
Originally Posted by fcrotornut' post='868916' date='Apr 19 2007, 06:39 PM
let frank loose in the house and give him a sorc, that man can mf like no other! with any luck he can get your customer a full set of trangs!
oooooh man that would be sweet, its got like, +5 to summon!
oooooh man that would be sweet, its got like, +5 to summon!
holy crap diablo talk.. damn thats ancient..
i guess you could install diablo three time on the guys pc and run bots on all of them..