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Remember the stranded Bellingham broad/student?

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Started 5 months ago by Doodles
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I haven't been harassed by her lately on my evening trips to Safeway. Saw her last night in West Seattle around the junction.

As soon as I got in my car, she aggressively knocked on my window. I put the window down just a bit, and she began her "I'm a student...from Bellingham...these dudes stole my purse and wallet...wahwahwah'...

I told her to get lost, in so many words "HAPPY YOU FOUND A NEW HAUNT!"...

Anyone seen her in OUR area recently? I was surprised to see she had found a new location, finally!

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BuffaloHawk

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I heard the only way to catch her in the Hood is to have Pickles in the car at Golden Gardens;)

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I have never seen this woman--or at least she's never asked me for anything.

what I want to comment on is the use of the term "broad."

my father used it often when I was growing up. I believe it was part of his own childhood lexicon in the 40's & 50's.

I always thought the word was somewhat deragatory. I see it more frequently now and it seems to have lost that connotation.
some women even refer to themselves as 'broads.'

what gives?

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lifeisamazing

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I like the term. It reminds me of those old 40's movies where the strong sassy woman was called a broad.

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BuffaloHawk

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It reminds of the old tough woman that owns the Saloon in a black & white western movie.

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PDaddymom

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It depends on who is using the term and the context in which it is being used. I don't like it personally - I acquaint it with the word biddy - which I don't like either.

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Cheese

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You know, maybe she really *is* a student in Bellingham who had her purse stolen and is reliving it every day like Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day". My guess is that she has a lot of incompletes on her transcript by now though.

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allisonw

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I'm not a fan of 'broad' though it's nothing compared to do......ag.

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bambooboy

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Noun
broad (plural broads)
(dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.

note: she didn't loose her purse. too bad too, she's not that old. Probably a crackhead, but could be a broad in the classic sense...

Posted 5 months ago #
iPlod

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PDaddymom, I see a biddy as someone who finally rises to the occasion of being a strong sassy woman per lifeisamazing's definition but sadly hasn't had enough practice at it.

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lifeisamazing

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I thought biddy was usually paired with the word old and that an "Old biddy" was an old woman who is always unhappy and looking down on everyone else's behavior. You know she's virtuous and no one else is. Also, from the old black and white westerns. Can't you just picture Festus saying "Now, you jus' go on ya old biddy"

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Cate

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I'd much rather be a broad then a biddy.

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pennygirl

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Whatever people want to be, let's not confuse broad with biddy. Biddy is reserved for Grandmothers and other ancients according to my son. A Biddy is great.

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bambooboy

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Well if you were hard up and a guy, a broad could be OK too... Just sayin

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pennygirl

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Well in situations like that I am sure that some blokes have gone for biddies. Just saying :-)

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BuffaloHawk

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one of my friends from the Sunderland UK area (not that there is anything wrong with it) calls A couple that is Ghey men "Puffs"

I never heard that one before

Posted 5 months ago #
Cate

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biddy2
n pl -dies
Informal a woman, esp an old gossipy or interfering one

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lifeisamazing

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I'm with you Cate, much rather be a broad than a biddy. Broads are cool.
Funny about biddy's being cool, Penny, just goes to show it's all opinion and perception.

I've heard puff
My friend who is gay calls particularly effeminate gay men "Flamers"
I've also heard a gay friend say, when he said something that gave himself away as gay (back in the day when it wasn't so open) "Oops, I seem to have dropped a hairpin"

What I find interesting is the ethnic names that people will use. I've actually had people say, when they hear my very Italian last name, "Oh so your a WOP?" I can't help but picture my dad's face if he was there. Scary.

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I've always thought a biddy was someone who didn't mind her own business/liked to gossip so glad to see that definition Cate.
maybe when they're old, biddies can be cute, but otherwise it's a repulsive trait, no?

and LIA, I have also noticed a lot of ignorance regarding acceptable terms for various ethnic groups. you should've slugged that guy for your old man!

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bambooboy

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GI = time to change your avatar.....please

Posted 5 months ago #
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I just did (a few hours ago).

it went from the sterile, just-removed at the clinic earwig, to a more natural setting.
apparently it went unnoticed.

Posted 5 months ago #
jburgh

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I have never seen this "student". But, the guy who usually works the SW corner of Aurora and 105th was gone for a while, and then I saw him in Woodinville.

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BuffaloHawk

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A few months ago I was taking my daughter to her mothers house in Everett. When we where stopped at a light to get on she said "Dad there is one of your friends'. I was all puzzled and she was waving her hand out the window. I didn't realize who she was referring to and asked her "Where". She pointed to a homeless person with a sign waving at the vehicles for money. I couldn't help but laugh:)

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lifeisamazing

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bio, I tend to just look at them (there have been way more than one) and say "Did you really just say that?" they get embarrassed and try to back peddle "I was just kidding" and I change the subject. I hope the embarrassment makes them think before saying something like that to someone else.
History lesson - does anyone here know (without dogpiling or googling) what WOP means?

Posted 5 months ago #
allisonw

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With Out Papers.

Haha, I saw "Doodles" last night--it's funny when you find out that someone you see all the time is (insert anonymous screenname here) in the Interwebs.

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teigyr

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jburgh, how long ago? He was gone and then back a few weeks ago and now appears to be gone again. I wonder if the auto parts business isn't all that appreciative of him being there. He has a pimp and it's crazy that people give him money. That and he's rude, will try to stick his head in your car window if it's down. It'd be lovely if he stays in Woodinville :) Maybe his pimp moved?

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LIA, WOP is a very derogatory term for an immigrant italian.

Biddy to me has always meant an interfering nosy body
Broad is "polite" way of saying whore-- or whoa, where I came from. It's there term grownups used when kids were around- ha ha

GI please get off your insect bend. I can't read your posts because I can't look at your avatar pics

Posted 5 months ago #
eric

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i ilke the earwig, GI. ignore that biddy.

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SmartsyArtsy

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Hey Eric, you're now on my biddy ban list

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onederfullone

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Biddy banned...

Damn, somebody took my seat.

Posted 5 months ago #
pennygirl

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I would imagine that more than a few broads turn into old biddies at some point.

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BuffaloHawk

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I would imagine that more than a few old biddies at some point hang out at MyBallard !!!

hehehe;)

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bambooboy

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the meaning of WOP. I used to know but I forgot, and it's leterally killing me not going to Google to look it up (as you requested). I'll remember sooner or later, probably in the middle of the night

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pennygirl

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Alli referenced it earlier bambooboy.

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pennygirl

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Naughty BH :-)

Posted 5 months ago #
Corvus

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I prefer the term 'meth ho'.

Posted 5 months ago #
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the 'w/o papers' is only one origin.

I did look it up, only because I knew there was more to the story:
"A different theory is that it originates from a southern Italian dialect term guappo, meaning swagger, derived from the Spanish term guapo, via dialectical French, meaning ruffian or pimp.[2][3] This also has roots in the Latin vappa, meaning wine gone flat.[4] This theory holds that the term was brought to the U.S. by early Italian immigrants from the region of Campania, who named those suspected to belonging to the Guapparia "Guappi", in a similar fashion Sicilian people used the term "Mafiosi".

if I'm not mistaken, there was (is?) a person on this forum who goes by 'ballard broad.'
her posts seemed quite normal and not whore-like at all as you might expect.

Posted 5 months ago #
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is this earwig image better for you prudes?

Posted 5 months ago #
pennygirl

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boardballard GI. With the board avi. Unless there actually is a ballard broad.

Edit: Ignore. I think that is boardbrown

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pennygirl

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That looks like one of those cute fuzzy caterpillars that live in my garden.

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it very well could be. caterpillars on your ear still sounds disgusting.

anyway, I'm referring to this broad:
http://www.myballard.com/forum/profile.php?id=1727

very normal I might add, just an interesting name.

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bambooboy

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GI - I can see this is going from bad to worse. I never should have said anything.

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pennygirl

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In this weather a furry caterpillar on the top of your ear doesn't sound half bad.

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maybe not, but you'd need two caterpillars, one on each ear, to establish some equilibrium.

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pennygirl

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I never thought of that.

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pennygirl

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Double.

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lifeisamazing

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GI - I've never heard the other story, pretty interesting. I wonder which is true. The only one I know is With Out Papers referred to Italians that came here without the proper papers. That is the stamp they used at the top of the papers they were given when they were processed at immigration - WOP

It then spread out to be a derogatory term to refer to all Italians in the US. Yet another example of how uneducated most people are who use those terms.

"Wet backs" is the same. It was used to refer derogatorily to the people from Mexico who came here illegally by crossing the Rio Grand and then spread out to be used to refer to all Mexicans in the US who came wet or dry legally or illegally. Weird.

Now you can go back to broads and caterpillars. More entertaining by far.

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teigyr - sorry it took so long to respond. I saw him in Woodinville on December 15th. He was walking down the middle of a busy street. He was carrying his sign but not asking anyone for money...just walking.

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I totally forgot that meaning of WOP.
When I was up in SandPoint AK recently the plant driver (name of Jesus (pronounced "Hay-zeus") is from Salvador. I was joking with him about being a wetback (from Mexico crossing the river as the derogatory term goes). He told me the river was only ankle deep so he was only a "wet shoe".
I put his phone number in my iPhone and now I tell people that I have "Jesus on speed dial".
I thought it was funny....

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Compass Rose

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I'd never heard "With Out Papers" (and it's technically not a correct acronym for WOP, since without is one word, not two. Just sayin')

"I'd much rather be a broad then a biddy." Definitely.

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A lot of people who think they are broads are actually biddies and a lot of people who might be considered a biddy by others are actually broads.

Disclaimer before anyone has a meltdown: I wasn't referring to anyone on this forum. It was just an observation.

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jburgh, crazy. I wonder if his sponsor brought him up there? He's been surprisingly absent from the 105th corner. I remember a forum person saying (might've been GAIN or Phinneywood, can't remember) that his loud "can you help me please" got really old because they lived in the apartments right near there. I'm half thinking the auto parts store made life difficult for him, they've seemed to be pretty strict with towing unauthorized cars, etc.

Or a broad biddy :)

I just learned the origins of Dago. Is kind of interesting.

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lifeisamazing

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Penny - well put
(Of course I think of myself as a broad and certainly not a biddy - but then my drivers license weight and hair color are also a matter of my own opinion)

RC - true but the immigration people must have known that WP is too hard to say when you're trying to put someone down. Sounds kind of stupid. Good on them for giving us something with a little more punch. :)

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lifeisamazing

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teigyr - well..... what is it? (I should know but if I ever did I've forgotten)

- or if you're not very tall you can be a iddy biddy broad.

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pennygirl

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Teigyr is very slight in stature. I doubt she gets to 5' 2" on the scale. Teeny tiny.

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teigyr

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Here's what I found:

"The word 'dago' is a derivative of the Spanish name 'Diego', which means 'James'. It was originally coined in the 17th century by British sailors to indicate Spanish or Portuguese people, especially sailors. Despite the hispanic origin of the word, in the 19th century the word 'dago' became more commonly used in the USA as a derogatory term for Italians, due to the large immigration from that country. However, it is still used to indicate Spanish or Portuguese people as well, but rarely the French."

I just really like that last line "but rarely the French".

PG, hah :)

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lifeisamazing

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Iddy biddy teeny tiny broad

Thanks for the explanation. Talk about convoluted. James? I'll have to tell my friend that his name is the basis for a derogatory word for my nationality. Huh?

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Compass Rose

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To me, a biddy is someone too tightassed to ever be confused for, or aspire to be, a broad.

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lifeisamazing

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Hee, well said Rose

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