Carnie lexicon
Here’s an excellent glossary of Carny Lingo, straight from the midway. A sampling:
BABY NEEDS MILK – When carnies see another carny flirting with the townies, they will often go by and say this just to mess up their buddies ‘score’.
FLOSS or FLOSS WAGON – Cotton candy and a ‘grab joint’ that sells cotton candy.
KICK – Refers to the pocket where carnies keep the money they ‘swing’ with, i.e., “I saw Gizmo put that ‘fin’ in his ‘kick’.”
RUBE – Any kind of physical and sometimes, verbal fight. Originally meant a big fight between the carnies and the townies. When a carny saw someone hit a co-worker, they yelled “Hey, Rube!” and everyone who could bail a counter piled on. Also, a not very affectionate term for the towner himself.
danger Said,
July 11, 2005 @ 4:21 pm
Oddly enough, this is no different than Renaissance Fair lingo.
Electro Rock Said,
July 11, 2005 @ 11:55 pm
I have an early memory of reading X-Men #4 or so (a reprint, since the original came out in the 60s), the first issue with the Blob character, and him yelling “Hey Rube!” Blob was a carny guy and when the X-Men tried to recruit him to the team (most of the early issues were either them fighting Magneto’s subtly named Brotherhood of Evil Mutants or them trying to recruit some guy and ending up fighting and then leaving), Blob shouted the phrase to get the local carnies (the tent preparers and the like) to surround the team.
Just so you know.
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