Hoo-kers and Booze to the Rescue !

[cbelt3]

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/italy-...50203.html

"Italy learnt it was no longer in a recession on Wednesday thanks to a change in data calculations across the European Union which includes illegal economic activities such as prostitution and drugs in the GDP measure."

miley-laughing001:

[deckeda]

That's fantastic. Declare something illegal until it helps you. Sofa-King great!

[eustacetilley]

deckeda wrote:
That's fantastic. Declare something illegal until it helps you. Sofa-King great!

I haven't come across that usage before; it dates as far back as 2003 according to the Urban Dictionary, as a Drinking game: Say "I'm Sofa King. We tarred it." until you can't anymore.
A Shop by the name of "The Sofa King" in Northampton, England, is apparently the origin, according to Wiktionary. "The Sofa King" was founded in 1999, so if there are any other variations of earlier origin, (Some mention "Todd" instead of "Tarred", but that doesn't make grammatical sense.), they haven't been as yet properly vetted.

¬Eustace

[deckeda]

I only know if from SNL.

[GGD]

I think it became pretty main stream after SNL used it in 2007.

https://screen.yahoo.com/sofa-king-000000974.html

eustacetilley wrote:
I haven't come across that usage before; it dates as far back as 2003 according to the Urban Dictionary, as a Drinking game: Say "I'm Sofa King. We tarred it." until you can't anymore.
A Shop by the name of "The Sofa King" in Northampton, England, is apparently the origin, according to Wiktionary. "The Sofa King" was founded in 1999, so if there are any other variations of earlier origin, (Some mention "Todd" instead of "Tarred", but that doesn't make grammatical sense.), they haven't been as yet properly vetted.

¬Eustace

[freeradical]

They just need to learn our game of redefining the meaning of the word "unemployed".

Everything will be nice and rosy then.

[Will Collier]

Cue up the Trailer Park Boys...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8a9eqkSqM8

[eustacetilley]

deckeda wrote:
I only know if from SNL.

After my post, I did a search on this Site, and found that the first person to use "Sofa King" here was BernDog, May 12, 2006 12:02PM.

He's going to have to pipe up about where he heard it from.

¬Eustace

[Speedy]

I thought this thread was going to be about the Secret Service.

[decay]

Hookahs and Booze