Call: "I'm going to take off my belt and the you know what'll happen!" Response: "Your pants will fall down!"
It's an interesting cultural shift in the years between those generations--my father understood the corollary growing up ("when other fathers say this it means X, but when I say it, I will only ever mean Y"). But to my sisters and I, we were merely being threatened with a mooning, and we literally didn't understand that there was a violent meaning behind "taking off one's belt" until we were nearly in high school.
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Date: 2010-08-05 02:36 am (UTC)Call: "I'm going to take off my belt and the you know what'll happen!"
Response: "Your pants will fall down!"
It's an interesting cultural shift in the years between those generations--my father understood the corollary growing up ("when other fathers say this it means X, but when I say it, I will only ever mean Y"). But to my sisters and I, we were merely being threatened with a mooning, and we literally didn't understand that there was a violent meaning behind "taking off one's belt" until we were nearly in high school.