Re: blow this pop(sicle) stand [WAS: I'm now a suspicious person]

contrex wrote:

On 30 Jun, 13:08, t...@xxxxxxxxxx (Donna Richoux) wrote:
LFS <l...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
tony cooper wrote:

[snip]

"I understand that there's a small kid here who wants to blow this
pop stand, and I'm here to pick him up."

[snip]

I've never heard the expression. I rather like it but it might be
inadvisable to adopt it here at the moment, given yesterday's news of
car bombs.

"Let's blow" is 20th c. US slang like "let's split," let us depart these
premises. Nothing to do with blowing things up, although I suppose in
times of stress, everyone gets oversensitive. Nor with blow jobs,
either.

The version I learned was "let's blow this crazy popsicle stand," but
that's apparently a tiny minority. Web hits are:

"blow this popsicle stand" 11,600
"blow this pop stand" 2,930
"blow this crazy popsicle stand" 3

It was just a silly thing to say to friends when you were ready to move
on. But it's largely unknown now, as poor Tony found.

I wonder if there's any UK equivalent. When you've been, say, sitting in
a pub with your friends and it's time to shift gears and leave, is there
any silly saying that comes to mind? Do you say "Time to hit the road"?
That's pretty standard in the US.
--
Best -- Donna Richoux

People say things like "Shall we go/split/get going/bugger off/call it
a day" etc. In fact they say a thousand different things. "Let's get
this show on the road" springs to mind. If inebriation is advanced
folk might say "shall we pour ourselves into a taxi?". People addicted
to Hollywood movies might say "blow the joint" or some other obsolete
US idiom. Particularly in the south of England there is a tiresome
type of person who is relentlessly and wordily jocular who says things
like "shall we wend our weary way homewards?". This is the type of
person who cannot say "I go to a pub run by a guy called Joe", they
have to say "I patronise a local watering hole genially presided over
by mine host, Josephus Maximus, where a fine selection of ales is
provided."

As Tom Lehrer nearly said about the South, "Be it ever so decadent, there's
no place like the Home Counties."

--
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