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 Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:19 pm
Nah. I 've worked as a waiter plenty of times. That fake-choking story is one we would have passed around while we were doing break-down. It's the guys who demand a lot and don't tip that we make up excuses to throw out, and the ones who threaten other customers. Most of the guys I worked with were either college students, Wodehouse fans or sports fanatic, so merely tossing rolls was considered posh.
What we didn't like was finding guys dead in the bathroom or, like, flirting with someone on the bar shift (a good way to get a better tip) who ended up not getting a date and then looked to you in that "I've Always Relied on the Kindness of Strangers" way when you had to cut her or him off.
Still, I liked that story. I wish I'd thrown more dinner rolls at my grandmothers.
Once my grandmother on my father's side, Lifeda, was cooking up some pintos (for her special enchiladas) and I walked up and said "Robbie don't eat beans" (Robbie was the name I had adopted for myself at the time, much as my little sister insisted on the moniker "Timmie.") We were adorable children who later insisted on singing our own 32-stanza version of the Diarrhea song to our visiting rich aunt Susan (the one my folks were trying to impress.)
Class. Class. Class. That's my family!
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:27 pm
Reminds me why I'm glad I no longer waitress. twisted
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:02 pm
Okay all you older old geezers! I need some help. Some friends of mine on another site are trying to figure out just what a "whatnot" is. This one friend's grandma would tell them about going into town as a young girl with her family and her dad would her and her siblings whatnots for treats. So, what's a whatnot????
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Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:35 pm
IrishDanceMum Okay all you older old geezers! I need some help. Some friends of mine on another site are trying to figure out just what a "whatnot" is. This one friend's grandma would tell them about going into town as a young girl with her family and her dad would her and her siblings whatnots for treats. So, what's a whatnot???? Midwestern much? "Goin' t' tha store for some soda-pop and whatnot, ain'a?"
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Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:32 pm
What-not... I've not heard that for awhile, though I've been known to use it. What-not is like etcetera, getting a little of this and a little of that.
Doing housework and what-not... did that clear things up a little.
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 12:00 am
Holy gods, Harbone, 32 stanza's!!?
Shoot, best I could get to was 7 or 8.
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:05 pm
Lil Brat What-not... I've not heard that for awhile, though I've been known to use it. What-not is like etcetera, getting a little of this and a little of that. Doing housework and what-not... did that clear things up a little. I think it was supposed to be some kind of sweet treat. Something special they'd only get once in a while when they went into town. I might have to go to a really old geezer and ask my dad! lol
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:02 pm
I, too, having grown up in the midwest, beleived that Whatnot is another term for et cetera. However, a terrifying search on e-bay reveals that some knick-knack shelves and book cases are called "whatnots" - the term also shows up as a "whatnot" bowl. A little more research and this terrifying lesson, from someone trying to get through an Ibsen play, tells us that whatnot is the name for the display shelf and, from that, we can assume things on it are "whatnots." http://condor.stcloudstate.edu/~scogdill/19thc/ibsen/props.htmlNow, my grandmother (the one from Iowa, not the one from San Luis) always used the term "whatnot" to refer to useless supplies in general. If it wasn't worth naming, it was "whatnot." I'm gonna drive down and visit my father this Sunday. Perhaps his vast story of bizarre 50s trivia will turn up something. PS. And, yeah, it took about an hour to sing the whole Diarrhea song. Up until 1993, my sister could still sing at least half of our versus. We had a whole cycle dedicated to the woes of air travel and a few based on tortures we put our Charlie McCarthy doll through. (dum de dum... when yer shootin' down the slide and something starts to glide iiiiiittt'ss... oh, uh, sorry.)
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 7:31 pm
Harbone I, too, having grown up in the midwest, beleived that Whatnot is another term for et cetera. However, a terrifying search on e-bay reveals that some knick-knack shelves and book cases are called "whatnots" - the term also shows up as a "whatnot" bowl. A little more research and this terrifying lesson, from someone trying to get through an Ibsen play, tells us that whatnot is the name for the display shelf and, from that, we can assume things on it are "whatnots." http://condor.stcloudstate.edu/~scogdill/19thc/ibsen/props.htmlNow, my grandmother (the one from Iowa, not the one from San Luis) always used the term "whatnot" to refer to useless supplies in general. If it wasn't worth naming, it was "whatnot." I'm gonna drive down and visit my father this Sunday. Perhaps his vast story of bizarre 50s trivia will turn up something. PS. And, yeah, it took about an hour to sing the whole Diarrhea song. Up until 1993, my sister could still sing at least half of our versus. We had a whole cycle dedicated to the woes of air travel and a few based on tortures we put our Charlie McCarthy doll through. (dum de dum... when yer shootin' down the slide and something starts to glide iiiiiittt'ss... oh, uh, sorry.)
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Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:59 am
Harbone PS. And, yeah, it took about an hour to sing the whole Diarrhea song. Up until 1993, my sister could still sing at least half of our versus. I meant versEs. Crud. My spelling seems to get worse as the years roll by.
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:21 pm
Yep, back growing up in the UK, a whatnot was a set of display shelves for little ornaments etc. What you put on them were still called ornaments (or in our case, our "finds" from the back garden,until Mum was dusting one day and found a disected owl pellet.... smile ) There even used to be a set of small collectable pottery animals which had "whatnot" as their brand name.
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:54 pm
Ho! A clue!
Perhaps it wasn't candy but a brand of Toys!
My father knew nothing, by the way. He said it meant "miscellaneous." He's 67.
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:39 pm
Yes, I agree with the UK version - it was a little set of shelves to keep irritating little ornaments on (I like the dissected owl pellet variation razz ).
Maybe your dad should join the Geezers, Harbone? lol
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:49 pm
the only time i've heard a whatnot mentioned was in a d**k Francis book, and that was refering the a set of shelves too 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:16 pm
I don't think I care for this "shelving" variation of my precious whatnot. The whatnot is one of the staples of the Midwestern dialect. To change it's meaning would like saying "*Heaven's to Betsy" is just another silly baseball term.
*It was the play to win the 1929 World Series, for those trivia buffs out there...still a sucky year overall though...I hear the ecomony didn't do so well. xd
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