Re: Continue the thread

[LadyFae]

Jewel hasn't had a new album out in a while has she? Not that inlisten to her nor do I own any if her CDs but the thought randomly popped into my head.

[DonaCatalina]

Head colds are such an inconvenience. About the only positive thing you can is that it beats a chest cold.

[Bob of the Lake]

Cold weather is on it's way which means soon it will be cold (the illness) season. Although if you can believe it, I tend to catch cold more often in the summer.

[LadyFae]

Summer colds really are the worst! You just don't expect to get a cold in the summer and so it knocks you on your keester. I wouldn't be so cruel as to make you continue this thread with the word keester though.

[Cap'n Hunnar Graybeard]

Though you might not be so cruel as to have someone continue this thread with keester...

[DonaCatalina]

Keester is not a word that I can find in my dictionary. Anyone know its origin?

[Bob of the Lake]

Origin of keester? I credit my mother for mine! 

[Merlin the Elder]

From Random House (online):

"...You are not alone in a search for the spelling of the word keister: Over the years, it's been recorded as keister, kiester, keyster, and keester--every form you suggest has been used in print. However, the most common spelling, and the one given as a preferred form by those dictionaries that include it, is keister.

Though there is some disagreement over the etymology, the most likely explanation is that it is a borrowing of German Kiste 'a box; case; chest', which also means 'the rump; buttocks' in German slang. Interestingly, the earliest use of the word in English slang is 'a traveling bag; suitcase', corresponding to the standard German sense. The 'suitcase' sense is first found in the 1880s, and is well attested by the 1910s or '20s. Derived senses, used mainly in criminal circles, include 'a safe' and 'a jail; lockup'.

The usual current sense 'the buttocks' and occasionally 'the rectum or anus' is first found around 1930. While the word is somewhat old-fashioned, it is still in use. Like many words referring to the buttocks (especially arse), it has developed various subsenses, including 'copulation' (e.g. "I'd like to get some keister") and 'one's body; self' (e.g. "Get your keister out of here"). But the most interesting development, to my mind, is a rather gruesome verb use among prisoners: 'to hide (contraband) in the rectum', as in "I keistered that knife and brought it in here." This verb is first recorded in the 1980s, though there are examples of expressions like keister plant 'an act of concealing narcotics in the rectum' in prison memoirs from the 1940s. Here's hoping you never encounter this one personally. "

[DonaCatalina]

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord. Of course that's only a song lyric at this point.

[LadyFae]

Point me in the direction of the hot cocoa or coffee! It is COLD and snowy in the great North of Minnesota!

[Bob of the Lake]

Minnesota certainly knows how to do winter--hot cocoa and coffee for everyone!!

[DonaCatalina]

Everyone probably likes hot cocoa or cider at some time.

[Poldugarian Warrior]

Time and time again, I'm confronted with that choice this time of year. Cider is only refreshing, when it's consumed in the summer or warm last days of fall, if cold, unless it is mulled and heated. Then it's a good winter drink. Cocoa is good though it doesn't pack an alcohol punch it makes up for in having low THC levels close to Marijuana. So still good. I'd have to go with cocoa.

[Merlin the Elder]

Hot cocoa is a favourite of mine in the colder winter months.  A nice additive is a bit of Irish Cream.

[DonaCatalina]

Cocoa in its unsweetened form is a major component of chocolate cake. I think one of those sounds pretty good right about now.