OT- What do you think the following expression means

[tesco samoa]

This is just a little experiment to see what people think the following expression means.

It's roots are in canadian culture... So can the Canadians Hold back on answering it....


Here it is

Smoked Him

Examples

"Jezz, Steve really smoked him eh."
"Man, did that guy ever get smoked eh."

[TerranC]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
This is just a little experiment to see what people think the following expression means.

It's roots are in canadian culture... So can the Canadians Hold back on answering it....<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Shoot. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Loser]

I didn't think it was Canadian. I thought it came from Illeagal Street Racing, that would be to beat someone off the blocks so badly that they are left in the smoke left by your tires.

[President_Elect_Shang]

I thought it came from the [US] Army, meaning an individual was about to receive disciplinary exercises. Very rough and unpleasant, trust me I was smoked more than once during basic Training and I still have the scars on my hands from the gravel pit where the “smoking” took place.

[Greybeard]

Where I grew up it was short for "leaving someone behind in your smoke (like exhaust)". Another way of saying you beat them badly in a competition....Greybeard

[Will]

Originally posted by Greybeard:
Where I grew up it was short for "leaving someone behind in your smoke (like exhaust)". Another way of saying you beat them badly in a competition....Greybeard <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ditto.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Loser:
I didn't think it was Canadian. I thought it came from Illeagal Street Racing, that would be to beat someone off the blocks so badly that they are left in the smoke left by your tires. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That has been my experience as well. I am certain that it is not just Canadian in origin.

[Baron Munchausen]

The word 'smoke' can carry all of the same connotations as 'hot' by association with fire. So smokin' can be used of anything from high speed (leaving someone else in your dust, as others have said) to sexiness (surely everyone here has heard of the 'smoky' gaze?) to just plain 'excellence' at whatever is being described. A sports team can 'smoke' the opposition, but the mere fact that they are performing very well can be expressed as "they are smokin' today" -- i.e. "hot" by the association of smoke and flame/heat.

[spoon]

Canadian, sure, but are the carniverous cannibalistic Canadians? Might mean something else then...

[primitive]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
....... canadian culture... <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well,
You learn something new every day. I had no idea such a thing exsisted http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[TerranC]

Originally posted by primitive:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by tesco samoa:
....... canadian culture... <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well,
You learn something new every day. I had no idea such a thing exsisted http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I don't get it.

[Thermodyne]

Well the oldest reference I have seen with it referred to shooting people with hand guns in the early 18th century. It referred to the large amount of smoke that exited the wound. This was from the slow burning powder being forced into the wound with the round. Pistols were very short range weapons in the days before grooved barrels. This use has made it to the 21st century as a way of replacing the word "kill".

In my life it has been mostly used to describe a sound defeat in a car race. Smoked em, Blew the doors off, and Shut’em down, all meaning the same thing.

Of late the kids around here use it to acknowledge the delivery of a stinging insult.

[Kamog]

I know! Well, in my experience, "smoked him" means ... oops, I have an answer but I'll hold off on posting it, as per Tesco's request. (I live in Canada, and nobody has mentioned the "correct" answer yet. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

[PvK]

Does it mean "fooled"? As in, deceived by a smoke screen?

PvK

[Loser]

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Well the oldest reference I have seen with it referred to shooting people with hand guns in the early 18th century. It referred to the large amount of smoke that exited the wound. This was from the slow burning powder being forced into the wound with the round. Pistols were very short range weapons in the days before grooved barrels. This use has made it to the 21st century as a way of replacing the word "kill".<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ooo.... likes this one.

[Puke]

I've heard it in all of the contexts below, but since our cultured Canadians suggest that their definition has not been hit yet, im sure we can turn it into something juvinile and sexual. well, at least as long as its a 'him' whom is being smoked.

That said, wither or not it refers to exhaust, burning rubber, or gunshot, it is alwasy an analogy for defeat. The particular circumstances could be almost anything, from being beaten in a gunfight or race, to having your advances turned down by a member of the oposite sex, to being defeated in a game of SE4.

On the other hand, if the him whom is being smoked happens to be a yellowtail or a wild pig, odds are it quite literally refers to a piece of meat in a smoker.

[Narratio]

Got to agree with Puke. In engineering terms it means that you've destroyed something. Sometimes deliberate, sometimes by accident. Thus "Smoke Testing" is where you run something to destruction, it catches fire etc.

[Gryphin]

We used it when playing with miniatures. We referred to tanks we had blown up as "Smoked". Usualy identified by a small piece of cotton placed on.

[geoschmo]

Well, Candian Bacon is smoked sured ham isn't it? Maybe it has something to do with that? But I don't see how one guy could smoke cure another. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[tesco samoa]

alright now the canadians turn to answer

[Atrocities]

Where I come from four meanings.

To beat someone in a race
To beat someone in a competition
To kill someone
To blow smoke in someones face. (An insult)

[Kamog]

How I have heard the expression used, "Smoked Him" means "punched him", especially in the face.
So if you go up to a guy and strike him in the nose with your fist, you've smoked him.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

kill or beat someone, not nessasarily physically. the beating, that is. someone mentioned car races.

[ January 10, 2004, 23:36: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
alright now the canadians turn to answer <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">So if it is, why don't you? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

This isn't some stupid joke like, "How do you keep a bunch of Americans in suspense?" And then say "I'll tell you tommorow." is it? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[PvK]

That could be what it means...

[Cipher7071]

I have a feeling that it's being used here as hockey reference...a blazingly fast shot maybe?

[Fyron]

Come on people, this is Tesco we are talking about here. This is all some elaborate, sick joke he has concocted. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

[Cipher7071]

Yeah, c'mon Tesco...let us off the hook here, eh? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

hook?
*wonder's if Tesco has an ish-wish dish*

[Kamog]

All right, so what's the right answer? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[tesco samoa]

Alright ANSWER for this area...

Used when someone gets flattened.

Like they drop and a puff of smoke should rise up.

They can run into things, A great body check etc..

Also used when you really beat someone at something

'Smoked em'


Now Someone else take this thread over with an expression.

It is rather neat to see how people view words http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

ok...name one nursery rhyme and the historical event that started it.

warning: people may get creeped out each time they hear nursery rhymes after this.

[Puke]

I'll take an easy one:

Ring Arround the Rosie

and

The Black Plague

[Loser]

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary.

Mary Queen of Scotts

[Kamog]

Jack and Jill went up the hill...

refers to the beheading of Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette in France in 1793. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[Captain Kwok]

No serious offence Tesco, but this whole exercise was kind of silly. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[ January 14, 2004, 13:01: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

[Fyron]

Humpty Dumpty refers to the battle between Richard III of England and Henry Tudor.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

silly, maybe, not stupid.

[Puke]

Its not stupid, I hadn't heard some of these references before. keep 'em coming!

[spoon]

Originally posted by Puke:
I'll take an easy one:
Ring Arround the Rosie
and
The Black Plague <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Easy, but wrong... Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm)

[narf poit chez BOOM]

well, that puts a little damper on it...

[tesco samoa]

Humpty Dumpty hmm did not know that one.

[Puke]

Dastardly! I heard that black plague reference from a high school history teacher! One more black eye for public education, it seems.

I do have to object to the suggestion in that article that "I am the Walrus" is nonesensical. It is clearly english slang for being the life of the party.