One of my favorite funny nicknames is "vatican roulette," used to describe the rhythm method of birth control, the only kind of birth control that Catholics are allowed to use without risking eternal hellfire. (By the way, in high school, when the rhythm method was described to me, I thought it meant that if you do it at a certain tempo, you can avoid pregnancy; not that you have to avoid certain fertile times of the month.)
My dad always used "gin mill" instead of bar. Are these things slang or just weird nicknames?
Either way, I discovered one this morning that gave me a laugh: "Irish sweepstakes," used as another name for the obituaries.
I really get a kick out of these kinds of things.
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IRISH SWEEPSTAKES! I nearly died laughing. My two favorite, made-up nicknames for people are BTFH (Bitch Troll from Hell) and MBBB (Mary Blanche Bitch Bag). My boss and I use them to refer to "special" customers at work.
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