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Discussion Groups / English Usage / May 2007"A stereotype on a stick"?
Would the phrase "a stereotype on a stick" mean someone who is the embodiement of some particular stereotype. I once heard the phrase "Jesus on a stick," so I made up this one and I just checked in Yahoo! to see if it was already invented, and didn't get any examples of it. If you heard this phrase, what would you think that it means? Would you have a definite opinion, or just a hunch, or would you be totally baffled? Thanks in advance. > Would the phrase "a stereotype on a stick" mean someone who is the > embodiement of some particular stereotype. I once heard the phrase [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > you have a definite opinion, or just a hunch, or would you be totally > baffled? Thanks in advance. Well, the phrase "Jesus on a stick" is blasphemy. It references the cross he was nailed to. So I don't think your stereotype on a stick will have the intended meaning, whatever it may be. JOE > > Would the phrase "a stereotype on a stick" mean someone who is the > > embodiement of some particular stereotype. I once heard the phrase [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > JOE I heard it on a radio show a year ago. I think that the caller who said it was using it in regards to religious fanatics preaching what he heard a million times over. >> Would the phrase "a stereotype on a stick" mean someone who is the >> embodiement of some particular stereotype. I once heard the phrase [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> you have a definite opinion, or just a hunch, or would you be totally >> baffled? Thanks in advance. (whatever) on a stick started out, I think, with "hotdog on a stick" in 1946. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Dog_on_a_Stick Other foods have been offered "on a stick"; most notably corn dogs, but also pizza and other things. Here's a video of 57 different foods served on a stick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-5Lr2IhB_o The Hot Dog On A Stick chain started in SoCal, and the phrase got picked up by California youth to mean just about anything. There's a comedian who uses the term, a comic strip about a boy on a stick, and a movie about "Life on a stick". >Well, the phrase "Jesus on a stick" is blasphemy. It references the >cross he was nailed to. So I don't think your stereotype on a stick will >have the intended meaning, whatever it may be. Just as likely to mean "convenient religion". If "he offers Jesus on a stick", he's a preacher that serves up Jesus in a simple and easy way to work with.  SignatureTony Cooper Orlando, FL > On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:01:56 -0400, joetaxpayer > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > >cross he was nailed to. So I don't think your stereotype on a stick will > >have the intended meaning, whatever it may be. > Just as likely to mean "convenient religion". If "he offers Jesus on a > stick", he's a preacher that serves up Jesus in a simple and easy way > to work with. I seem to remember that that's what the caller meant, but I was checking to make sure, since I need to use the expression in a letter. He also was connoting that they preach things he's knows to be stupid. This was on OutQ. The caller was joking, and spoke in a comical voice, but his telephone call was a serious one. No fan of any of the shows who call up or any of the hosts doesn't not dislike Christian fundamentalists and what they have to say and what they think in their heads and represent and what they stand for and try to enact. In UK usage, mainly among media types, an actor might be described derisively as a "smile on a stick", meaning that their talent was very severely limited to smiling unconvincingly, in a very manufactured way. An actor who was a "Scotsman on a stick" might be very good at saying "Hoots Mon" in a kilt, and very little else. > In UK usage, mainly among media types, an actor might be described > derisively as a "smile on a stick", meaning that their talent was very > severely limited to smiling unconvincingly, in a very manufactured > way. An actor who was a "Scotsman on a stick" might be very good at > saying "Hoots Mon" in a kilt, and very little else. News to me. I can't find any reference to such a use. UK usage is based on the rather odd belief in seventies Britain that impaling a piece of food on a cocktail stick somehow made it more exotic and enticing as well as easier to eat (later reinforced by the popularity of kebabbing). The most obvious example was the 'sausage on a stick' which gave a certain respectability to the consumption of even the most tasteless and unappetising of meat products. This is mercilessly parodied in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books where Cut-Me- Own-Throat Dibbler constantly attempts to improve sales of the most disgusting of food items by advertising them 'on a stick'. The most used phrase of this kind currently is the description of a woman as 'sex on a stick', ie. a woman who has undeniable charms but is also a bit overblown, tarty and 'obvious'. > I seem to remember that that's what the caller meant, but I was > checking to make sure, since I need to use the expression in a letter. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > fundamentalists and what they have to say and what they think in their > heads and represent and what they stand for and try to enact. "Doesn't not dislike"? Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------- Reverse parts of the user name for my e-address >> Well, the phrase "Jesus on a stick" is blasphemy. It references the >> cross he was nailed to. So I don't think your stereotype on a stick will [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > stick", he's a preacher that serves up Jesus in a simple and easy way > to work with. I've also heard it used as a wry or sarcastic exclamation -- "Jesus Christ on a stick!" The movie "Fletch" includes the line "Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick!" |
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