Comments on: And now for something (not so) completely different

By: Kaykuri

Kaykuri — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:39:04 +0000

You won’t catch me arguing against the hilarity of Monty Python sketches (big fan), but their looming presence seems to have distracted everyone here from the real joke of this post:
“closer security coordination between Japan and Korea”.

**Yoboseo y’all. Kinda new here so I thought I’d jump in with something provocative.**

By: Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:44:30 +0000

#14

I partially disagree.

“Helluva” is clearly a contraction of “hell of a” and, AFAIK, only used as a substitute for it, as in “I must be a helluva man.”

On the other hand “hella” is mainly used as a substitute for “very” or “extremely,” as in “It’s hella cold out there.”

They can be substituted for each other, but not always.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:59:06 +0000

@#9:

“Hella” is a trendy, recent version of “helluva.”

By: Richardson

Richardson — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:38:28 +0000

He’s not a lumberjack. He’s not okay.

By: Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:09:39 +0000

“I never wanted to be an arms control negotiator….I wanted to be a lumberjack!”

I would pay money to hear Chris Hill say that.

By: John

John — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:16:32 +0000

“I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am”

By: JohnT

JohnT — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:40:09 +0000

I first heard “hella” on a South Park episode.

By: Paul H.

Paul H. — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:47:19 +0000

The usual slang spelling is “helluva”.

By: jtb-in-texas

jtb-in-texas — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:58:19 +0000

I always thought hella was a “Stone-cutters” joke…

as in this: http://www.hellatemple.org/

Maybe it’s a Texas thing?

By: Bruce Klingner

Bruce Klingner — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:41:05 +0000

I never wanted to be an arms control negotiator….I wanted to be a lumberjack!

I loved both Python references. I’m a longtime fanatic (I saw them live at the City Center in NYC in 1976) and can still sing the Bruces’ Philosopher Song from memory (”Immanual Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable….”)