Deep Philosophical Question of the Day

[cjsmith]

So what exactly is a bippy, and more importantly, why are only the sweet ones suitable for gambling stakes?

Comments

[sharya.livejournal.com]

Haha, I don't know, but I've used the phrase more than once!

You can bet your sweet bippy on it!

[layer.livejournal.com]

i was so going to comment on that... my grandma used to say that all the time!

[layer.livejournal.com]

oh yes, and in case that wasn't a rhetorical question, i believe a bippy is an ass. given that, i think we all know why only the sweet ones are suitable for wagering.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wouldn't want to win a sour one.

[johno.livejournal.com]

I think they asked a couple of time on Rowen & Martin, but never answered the question.

[ohhjuliet.livejournal.com]

bwahhahahahahaha! This made me laugh like a maniac. And I'm sitting here looking at my computer and now everyone thinks I'm weird...

[wcg.livejournal.com]

BIPPY - A jocular euphemism for ass, as in "bet your (sweet) bippy) by Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, an NBC-TV comedy series. It was discussed, this reference tells us, in "Comments on Ety.", in Jan. 1982, but none of the discussion is included. From "Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, A-G" by J.E. Lighter, Random House, New York, 1994. (http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/27/messages/1196.html)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Man, Bill, your sense of humor and mine just don't match up some days. :-)

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

That made me splorf water all over the laptop. I'm glad it was only water!

:):):):):)

[platypus]

Where I come from, you betcher dupa, not yer bippy.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oo, I hadn't heard that one.

[platypus]

It's a Polish expression that's common in Milwaukee. There's a significant chunk of dialect that I'm familiar with from proximity, but that I couldn't use myself without self-consciousness. Milwaukeeans also think the plural of "you" is "yous." "Ya hey, yous guys wanna go bowling?" "You betcher dupa!"

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I've heard "yous guys" before, but not often. Given the number of places that have invented a plural "you" I think English really needs it! :-)

[ericainohio.livejournal.com]

Yes, and why is it always YOUR bippy that's sweet, not mine??

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah! MY bippy's just as sweet as YOUR bippy, you bet your... um, this is getting circular.