{"id":214,"date":"2005-07-11T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/carnie-lexicon\/"},"modified":"2005-07-11T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T18:18:08","slug":"carnie-lexicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/carnie-lexicon\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnie lexicon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an excellent glossary of Carny Lingo<\/a>, straight from the midway. A sampling:<\/p>\n

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’.<\/p>\n

FLOSS or FLOSS WAGON – Cotton candy and a ‘grab joint’ that sells cotton candy.<\/p>\n

KICK – Refers to the pocket where carnies keep the money they ‘swing’ with, i.e., “I saw Gizmo put that ‘fin’ in his ‘kick’.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}