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20 Oct

cop a feel

Who taught: Kelly and Phil

cop a feel (source: http://www.2pep.com/)

October 14, 2011 was a pretty normal day for me until I got this text message from Phil. Phil asked me this question, “Do you know the phrase, cop a feel?”

I know what “cop” is and also know what “feel” is. Cop is Police who catch criminals. Then, I should be able to feel this expression, right? I thought it is pretty easy for me to figure out. So, I texted back to Phil, saying it should mean “keeping a feel.” You know when you have a good feeling about something, you want to keep it as long as possible.

Huh.. Am I joking? I was far away from the truth.

Phil told me that it means to grab a woman’s breasts or butt without her consent. I was like who would do that? But, then I remembered that one time when I was a swimming pool with a few other girls. One of the girls was not good at swimming and she touched my thing (you know what I am talking about here, right?) while she was trying to get out of the water. But, I was not sure she was intentional or not. I asked Phil whether this is a good example of copping a feel. He said the most important thing is that it should be deliberate. She might try to cop a feel but not sure. Oops! Don’t tell Jessy about this story. Nothing happened after that. 🙂

Based on my research, the best place to cop a feel is like New York City or an amusement park like Disney World where it is so crowded. But, I am sure this is a crime. So, please do not do this! Ironically, in this expression that basically describes an act of crime, there is “cop.”

Anyway, Phil said, “Kelly’s mind is in the gutter now. :)”

12 Apr

wine and dine

Who taught : Kelly

Wine and Dine….Sounds like really elegant and nice expression, isn’t it?

When I heard it for the first time from Kelly, I thought this would be an expression used for having real nice dinner. It is half correct because there is something else after dinner. You can use this one like, “I am going to wine and dine her tonight.” I mean you could use but you have to be careful. Why? this is an expression you can use, “when you want to take a lady out to real nice dinner and then have a sex with her.” Well, I think you should drink wine too along with dinner. I am not sure whether women can use this one. Is it possible? One more cultural lesson here! Be careful asking any woman for having dinner together! In America, if you ask any lady to go out for dinner together, then it implicitly means you might want to have a sex with her. Well, if you think more carefully, if you are a woman, if you say yes to this request, then you are implicitly saying I would like to have a sex with you. I mean, possibly. This is not the case at all in Korea as far as I know. (You know, I am very innocent and do not know a lot about this. I am not sure how I was able to marry Jessy. 🙂 )

There is a dirtier expression than this one, “wine dine 69.” Kelly actually taught me this one 🙂 Well, I will let you figure out the 69 part. One hint is … Think of 6 as a man and 9 as a woman. “Still not get it? My friends! I donno… You should research by yourself!”

Having said an expression related with sex, there is an expression you can use when you want to stop talking about sexual stuff with your friends if he/she keeps talking about those things. You can say, “Get you mind out of the gutter!” The gutter literally means a narrow channel that gets water from the roof of the building. Also, there is a street gutter for the same purpose. As you can see, the gutter has pretty dirty things. So, for American people, the gutter is related with some sort of dirty things especially thoughts related with sexual stuff. If any of your friends like to talk about sexual stuff, then you can say, “Dude, your mind is in the gutter!” This might be offensive to your friends so that you should be careful when you use it.

Interesting thing is, though, that people are really fast to learn these kind of expressions. Is it because people like to talk about this kind of stuff more than others or is it just because of human basic instinct?