Friday, December 03, 2004

Words=Power:

Submitted For Your Edification:

Word for the Day:
Bounce: To leave; To assault someone physically or verbally.

Phrase for the Day:
Pop and Lock: A term used by miners to describe the closure of disused mineshafts, the pop referring to the explosion to bring the opening of the shaft down thereby locking the shaft from the outside world.
Plebe miner 'We've got everything we can from shaft 11 G sir'
Head miner 'Orite boys pop and lock, this baby's done'

Or:-Popping is a party dance and Funkstyle created by Sam Solomon aka Boogaloo Sam, out of Fresno, California in the mid 70's with the West Coast Funk movement.
The quick tensing and releasing of muscles, often the arms, legs, back, chest and neck which creates a POP effect is popping. Designed to be done on beat. see popping
Locking is a funk dance created at the early 70's by Don Campbell There was a dance that was popular at the time called the Funky Chicken. Don Campbell didn`t know how to perform this dance properly because every move he did, he used to "lock" his arms. Then the people would say to him: "Do the Lock, Campbell". He created some more moves and patterns and called his new dance "Campbellocking" or just "Locking" for short. see locking. Locking involves a lot of pauses, wrist rolls, bounces, and points.
Example: whatcha gonna do at the show, the usual, bboy, pop and lock, just dance ya know.

Or: -Sexual Position used by donkey girls, most often observed in the Philippine Islands.
Example: Hey Chief, check it out, for 30 pesos she will do the pop’en-lock.

Or:-Form of interrogation taught at the School of the Americas (Ft. Benning, GA) in the early to mid-eighties. Can you put this chopper in a hover about 300 feet off the water? We got a few pop-n-lock questions to ask this kid.

Your Southern word/phrase of the Day:
Adam's Off Ox -- Meaning about the same as "I don't know him from Adam" -- The off ox was the ox on the off-side of the vehicle (wagon or cart), on the left-hand side of the team, furthest from the driver, lease visible; thereby, the least well-known.

Sitting at the Bus Station; I remain,

JQP Q.M.R.P.