It's slow on Skins's island today.
Anyway, there arose an issue here yesterday, about the term "bouncy."
The origins of "bouncy" are obscure, but it's obvious that our esteemed member Mr. Wiggum, if he didn't in fact invent the term, Mr. Wiggum greatly popularized it.
In its original meaning, a "bouncy" was a "conversion story" told by a primitive, generally about how the primitive convinced someone decent and civilized to become a primitive.....and if the story happened to have a cop jumping out of the bushes, damn, that was one Hell of a great bouncy.
And then franksolich showed up at our old home, and in his sloppiness and arrogance, used "bouncy" to describe any lie told by a primitive. This definition included, of course, all the "conversion stories," but as the primitives tell a lot of whoppers, the "conversion stories" were but a small part.
Alas, other members who erroneously assumed franksolich knew what he was talking about, started using the word "bouncy" in the same general overall sense he was.
I dunno about anybody else, and certainly wouldn't dream of dictating language, but from now on, franksolich himself is going to use "bouncy" in its original sense, "conversion stories" told by primitives.
And as for lies of the primitives NOT involving conversion, generally being exaggerations or distortions of the personal predicaments of the primitives, well, there's that fine word "stretchy."
Try to imagine the BicentennialBoobsBaby primitive, for example, trying to stretch a pair of 40" waistline panties so as to accommodate her girth, and there you have it; that's quite a stretch, or stretchy.
And by the way, does anybody have any pictures of bouncing balls, balloons, whatnot, that they can post? There's been some great bouncy pictures posted, both at our old home and here, but I never saved any.
However, I have no idea how one might illustrate a "stretchy."
