my girls
Who taught: Jake, Andrew and Ari.
Know Your Girls (Source: Yoplait)
Last Friday was my last day at my company and I went out to a Mexican restaurant to have lunch together with some of my friends. I cannot remember how we got into but we talked about picking up children from daycare center. Ari has two beautiful girls and they all go to the same daycare center. “Jake! If you want, you can always pick up my girls,” said Ari.
Now, do you find any issue with this sentence? Not really, right? It is just a simple sentence that Jake can pick up Ari’s girls from the daycare center. But, Andrew and Jake started to laugh and Ari and I were not sure why? “Hey, what is wrong with that saying?” said I. Andrew said, “Girls could mean something else.” I said, “What? Really? What do they mean?”
What do you think they would mean? Tell you what! You would not be able to figure out easily. They mean breast of women. Once we heard that, Ari said, “No! I did not know that meaning! Jake, if you do that, I will slap you. I meant my children.” I was pretty surprised by the fact that they could mean those. 🙂 Wow! I would have not known that at all.
One good example of the usage of this expression is, I think, the breast cancer campaign done my Yoplait. The title of the campaign was “know your girls!”
So, here is my question! What if a man says my girls? Does it have any meaning in some context? You know like balls?
If you were wearing tight jeans you could say…
“My boys are getting a little cramped.”
Oh.. we can use my boys! Haha!
Terry if you want to call them your girls, we’ll understand.
When reading this, I initially thought Jake and Andrew started laughing because of the double meaning for “pick up”. I’m glad I was wrong!
Haha…. Mark, So, I looked up Urban dict and found so many different meanings of “pick up.” Which one were you thinking of when you hear the expression?
definition 2:
To get a member of the opposite (or occassionally, same) gender’s contact details so as to schedule a date.
Haha.. That would be kind of funny if Jake is trying to pick up the girls.
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I think Jake and Andrew are just like 7 years old – I wouldn’t blink if I heard Ari say that.
In my case, ignorance is bliss!
One of my favorite Dilbert comic strips of all time:
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-07-23/
Oh….. Great! Now it is gone!
You’re saying you transferred?
Hey Jason, I changed my job. Today was the first day at my new job.