Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Wanna drink some blood....err have a dip?

So apparently the word Skoal comes from Norway and loosely translates to drinking from the skulls of defeated enemies and toasting your friends. It also originates from the English word skull.

Besides being the name of a product that most likely will have caused me massive unforeseen health problems, nowadays it also translates roughly to cheers, as in toasting someone. I wonder if Zane Lamprey from Three Sheets will use this if he does a show in Norway. Most likely.

If you were to look up the word dip, the definition makes a dipper sound more comparable to a heroin addict:

To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.

Somehow, reading that does remind me of what it is like to throw a hog in though. Powerful verbiage right there.

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