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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004badabing badaboom
What does 'badabing badaboom' mean? Is it associated with anything? > What does 'badabing badaboom' mean? Is it associated with anything? If I told ya, I'd hafta kill ya.  SignatureGood luck and good sailing. s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat http://kerrydeare.tripod.com > > What does 'badabing badaboom' mean? Is it associated with anything? > > If I told ya, I'd hafta kill ya. and now for the drum-roll to mark the punch line. Gary >> What does 'badabing badaboom' mean? Is it associated with anything? > >If I told ya, I'd hafta kill ya. Comon, what could be so serious for just asking. nick filted: >>> What does 'badabing badaboom' mean? Is it associated with anything? >> >>If I told ya, I'd hafta kill ya. > >Comon, what could be so serious for just asking. Not for asking, for being told...you can ask all you want....r >> What does 'badabing badaboom' mean? Is it associated with anything? > > If I told ya, I'd hafta kill ya. As Dave Foley once said, "Ok, but this had better be worth it." SignatureOpus the Penguin (that's my real email addy) You snipped my sig! > What does 'badabing badaboom' mean? Is it associated with anything? You can find an interesting (and quite amusing) discussion about this at: http://www.wordwizard.com/clubhouse/founddiscuss.asp?Num=2892 SignatureChristopher (Change 3032 to 3232 to reply by private e-mail) > What does 'badabing badaboom' mean? Is it associated with anything? "Babbling baboon"? > What does 'badabing badaboom' mean? Is it associated with anything? "There you go, ma fren'". East Side Mario's tv ads. Cheers, Sage > What does 'badabing badaboom' mean? Is it associated with anything? As an original Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Italian-American, I can attest that "bababing bababoom" means "therefore." It has emphatic, logical, and causal connotations. It is used with friends and family and close associates. Rhetorically, it implies that you see what I mean because we see things alike, so, among Italian Americans, bababing bababoom, it often provokes an argument. It is also somewhat hermetic, in that if its meaning need be explained to you, then, bababing bababoom, you probably aren't family. > > What does 'badabing badaboom' mean? Is it associated with anything? > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > meaning need be explained to you, then, bababing bababoom, you probably > aren't family. "Patapuum" is in that Italian equivalent of the OED as a Neapolitan dialectism (I forget how I found it, since I wouldn't have thought of looking it up under "p" -- I must have been looking up something else). That "p" is unaspirated, of course, becoming /b/ in NYItalAmE. The "badabing" might be purely American, but I'm not sure. |
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