Shank 'em - 13th January 2005

[AlohaDawg]

I knew someone who thought that refined sugar contained government mind control drugs and refused to sweeten with anything other than honey or self-pressed fruit juice.

Now who's being naive, Ben-San?

Good Lord, like the guy who only drinks rainwater and everclear because fluoridation is a russkie plot to corrupt the sanctity of our natural bodily fluids.

Yeeehaw!

[andalucia]

I knew someone who thought that refined sugar contained government mind control drugs and refused to sweeten with anything other than honey or self-pressed fruit juice.

Now who's being naive, Ben-San?

Good Lord, like the guy who only drinks rainwater and everclear because fluoridation is a russkie plot to corrupt the sanctity of our natural bodily fluids.

Yeeehaw!

The saddest thing is that I am actually from a town that, as far as I am aware, still refuses to fluoridate its water.  I dunno about commie plots, but if someone told them gay people like fluoride they would probably hold out for another couple of decades.

[arkabee]

i think vegans taste better than atkins people,
but they are _much_ harder to cook.

[AlohaDawg]

I knew someone who thought that refined sugar contained government mind control drugs and refused to sweeten with anything other than honey or self-pressed fruit juice.

Now who's being naive, Ben-San?

Good Lord, like the guy who only drinks rainwater and everclear because fluoridation is a russkie plot to corrupt the sanctity of our natural bodily fluids.

Yeeehaw!

The saddest thing is that I am actually from a town that, as far as I am aware, still refuses to fluoridate its water.  I dunno about commie plots, but if someone told them gay people like fluoride they would probably hold out for another couple of decades.

gotcha beat there, Andy. I'm from a damn STATE that won't add ANYTHING to the water. So the drinking water isn't even treated with chlorine, let alone fluoride. Damn dirty hippies.

Basically we drink rainwater that washes down from the mountains On the big island, outside of the towns, people keep cisterns to catch and store rainwater. Luckily there are very low levels of pollution here, but still we have to give our kids prescription vitamins for the fluoride. It's asinine.

[miles]

gotcha beat there, Andy. I'm from a damn STATE that won't add ANYTHING to the water. So the drinking water isn't even treated with chlorine, let alone fluoride. Damn dirty hippies.

Basically we drink rainwater that washes down from the mountains On the big island, outside of the towns, people keep cisterns to catch and store rainwater. Luckily there are very low levels of pollution here, but still we have to give our kids prescription vitamins for the fluoride. It's asinine.

In some New Mexican towns I've spent time in there is so much fluoride in the water that many of the citizens' teeth are brownish and yellowish.  Perfectly healthy, I hear, but tainted by the commie fluoride.

[AlohaDawg]

I've seen people with gross teeth everywhere I lived, but I would have thought that there would be guidelines as to the level. Weird.

Teeth here are especially nasty, though - so many old asian people with, like 4 teeth.

[Franz.]

Okay, I can't be the only one -

Besides a delicious piece of lamb, what in the flying hell is a shank?

Yours in ignorance,

[ Franz. ]

[V-Adore]

Okay, I can't be the only one -

Besides a delicious piece of lamb, what in the flying hell is a shank?

Yours in ignorance,

[ Franz. ]

It's a slangy verb meaning, roughly, "to stab," or "to fuck (someone)'s shit up in a gang-fight-ly fashion."

[Bozack]

Also, it often refers to a makeshift knife, carved out of available materials, used in the "fuck*ng-up." These are often found in prison. Usually it'll be like a toothbrush with the end sharpened down.

[jough]

Yes, shank started out as a noun meaning a makeshift knife used to stab someone in prison.  Now the transitive verb "to shank" means to stab someone with a shank.  This is convenient as the shank really has only a single function.

[slink]

Also, it often refers to a makeshift knife, carved out of available materials, used in the "fuck*ng-up." These are often found in prison. Usually it'll be like a toothbrush with the end sharpened down.

I thought that was a shiv? Well, I didn't, but then I heard it being called that and now wonder.

[CortJstr]

Also, it often refers to a makeshift knife, carved out of available materials, used in the "fuck*ng-up." These are often found in prison. Usually it'll be like a toothbrush with the end sharpened down.

I thought that was a shiv? Well, I didn't, but then I heard it being called that and now wonder.

Both are correct as nouns according to M-W. Although it doesn't yet recognize shank as a verb meaning stab, but does list the golf sense.

[Nabubrush]

My understanding is that

shiv=knife
shank=homemade knife.

It can be a sharpened spoon, which would provide more slicing. The toothbrush is usually heated and molded to make it a stabbing device (easy to slip into an undefended neck/ear).

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