New Vocabulary Word
November 26, 2008 - 1:54 pm
Irradiated by LabRat
Irradiated by LabRat
I shouldn’t have left off on going through Blunt Object’s archives. Linked in a recent post is this past gem of a term I never thought of but suspect I cannot now live without.
Go thee forth and read the whole thing.
November 26th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Yes! “Grass eater” is going to replace “gunsel” now in my vocabulary. LOVE it.
November 26th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Erm?
Gunsel is just a term describing sexual orientation. Not exactly relevant, I think?
November 26th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Possibly, the term originated in Larry Niven’s science fiction. The K’zin are obligate carnivores and extremely contemptuous of any species that would eat vegetable matter under any circumstances. The usage was very similar.
November 26th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Interesting. I wasn’t aware of either of those definitions. As I understand it *Gunsel* is a term in Parelli Natural Horsemanship for a person who doesn’t know much about horses, regularly goes beyond his limits and is like to get himself killed or injured because of his stupid behavior.
IOW - a “grass eater” who works with horses.
November 26th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
The Wiktionary entry for ‘gunsel’ confused me even further.
Incidentally, I got “grass-eater” from John Farnam. Farnam has replaced it with “Victim-By-Choice” (usually “VBC”) specifically to avoid irritating proto-gunnies who happen to be vegetarian.
November 26th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Cripes - so now political correctness now invades terms for dimwits, criminals, meat-eaters, gun slingers, those who partake in anal sex and horse owners?
What IS the world coming to?
November 26th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
SmartDogs: The world is coming to a place where it drives more and more people to the position I’ve taken for quite a while: “If you don’t like my term for your group/clique/whatever, have a nice steaming cup of go fuck yourself, probably with a dessert of grow a sense of humor god dammit!”
November 27th, 2008 at 7:56 am
I too, always considered “gunsel” to mean somebody, usually nefarious, packing heat. The movie the Maltese Falcon, for instance, has Sam Spade(Humphrey Bogart) calling “Wilmer”(Elisha Cook jr.) a gunsel.
November 27th, 2008 at 10:43 am
I’ve considered using
“Speaker To Vegans”
as a screen name.
November 27th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Yes, Wilmer is the archtypical gunsel, the Ur-gunsel. The person packing heat, and who most importantly, likes to shoot people.