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I've never heard "bro down" before this morning, but it sounds related to "man up"/"cowboy up" (imperative verb kinder than "grow a pair and...[talk to her, call my big bet, etc.]"

― Eazy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I've heard it like, "Who wants to bro down and watch football this weekend?" and the aforementioned favor-usage. I've also heard it negatively connotated like Jordan mentioned upthread, but not as often. Nick uses it a lot, I think. Dontcha? Dontcha?

Speaking of our ILX pigeonholes: JOHN! Can you tell me about the popularity, if any, of the name "Kai"?

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

"synchronize our menstrual cycles"

― n/a, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Because a law school friend of mine's wife is about to have a baby and he said he would like to name him "Kai" but worries that name is too popular, a sentiment that I, as a Jennifer, found to be somewhat ridiculous although I appreciated his conscious effort to avoid a trendy name.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

"bleed all over some important documents"

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I use the term "bros" sometimes in a semi-ironic sense but I don't think I ever say "bro down."

― n/a, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I think "bros" is one of many terms that I started to use as a joke but then became absorbed into my vocabulary and now I just use it without thinking.

― n/a, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

And ladies can be bros too, BTW.

― n/a, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't want to be a "bro." I defy your male normativity.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I know a Kai. He is one of the biggest douchebags it has ever been my distinct displeasure to meet.

― dan m, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I've also heard it negatively connotated like Jordan mentioned upthread

I didn't mention it. I would never use bro-down negatively. When Cam and Justin and I came to Chicago for drinking and shopping for cheap shirts and sensible furniture, that was a quintessential bro-down.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

He used to read The Giving Tree as a seduction tool.

― dan m, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost)

― dan m, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

My favorite "slow" movie = Andrei Rublev

― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't want to be a "bro."

Hey, tough shit.

― n/a, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

GAWD, Dan, I hate that guy.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha! My disgust is partially based on the fact that he tried this bullshit on multiple close female friends of mine. They laughed at him, and I did too.

Dude also "changed" his last name from a noble, relatively unique Finnish name to "Orion". I say changed in quotes because he didn't do it legally, he just asked people to start calling him that.

DOUCHE. BAG.

― dan m, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

There is a dude here who changed his last name to "FX", I think cause he was going to be famous? Then his family got upset, so he added it to his first name, ie "Joe FX Smith".

― Jordan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

The Giving Tree???

FX????

You people know some wankers.

Speaking of The Giving Tree, I want to restart the "relationship ending books" thread so that I can say that if someone gave me "The Secret," either the book or the DVD, I would not only dump him on the spot, but I would also probably physically assault him.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

[cut to jeff furiously scratching out an entry from his christmas shopping list]

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha. I never would have married the man if he even for a moment considered that an appropriate gift.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

[jeff pauses, worries that scratching out the entry may not be enough, and lights the entire list on fire]

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Now a pyromaniac I would have married.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

NO SERENADE NO FIRE BRIDAGE JUST THE PYROMANIA COME ON

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

What do you want?

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

What DO you want?

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i wanna, y'know, rock 'n' roll

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

you betcha.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I knew you'd come through, Kevin.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

jenny, i WILL rock 'n' roll

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

And now I have Def Leppard stuck in my head. There are worse things, I suppose, since it's Pyromania-era Def Leppard and not that horrible Hysteria record. Def Leppar really went down the tubes after Rick Allen lost his arm.

SORRY BUT IT IS TRUE.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

who knew all their talent lay in that dude's left arm?

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I have actually given this some thought. I think that to accomodate the loss of Rick Allen's arm, Def Leppard had to rely on synth drums. That meant that they had to change their entire sound because the rock and roll of Pyromania just didn't work with synth drums, at least not as they sounded in the late 80s. So the band had to build a new sound around the synth drums and you get the turd known as Hysteria.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't remember hysteria very well but i loved pyromania.

― JuliaA, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

That theory works except that Hysteria is not a turd.

― kenan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

You guys all had jean jackets with metal band names stenciled on the back in black marker in middle school, didn't you?

― dan m, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes but I had to sneak it out of the house and change into it on the bus. I wasn't allowed to wear my skull & fishbones shirt to school, either.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, at that blizzard show that the Fake Fix did at the Ice Fac, did you guys do a Def Leppard cover or was it another band?

"Bringing on the Heartache" - that's a good one. High 'n' Dry?

― Eazy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, High 'n' Dry. I love that song.

Alright, Kenan. Defend Hysteria. I've had this argument with Jeff a number of times. He's on your side but has failed to convince me. Here is your opportunity to weild your lofty rhetoric full blast. (Rule: You can't say that if I don't like Hysteria, there is something inherently broken in me.)

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

18 MILLION COPIES SOLD.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

my denim jacket had 1/2 buttons and an iron maiden patch on it. i always thought the black sharpie thing was stupid. but 1/2" buttons and an iron maiden patch wasn't so go figure.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess caps don't help an argument, do they?

― Eazy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

"Hysteria is one of only a handful of albums (and the third in rock history) that has charted seven singles or more on the US Hot 100: "Women" (#80), "Animal" (#19), "Hysteria" (#10), "Pour Some Sugar On Me" (#2), "Love Bites" (#1), "Armageddon It" (#3) and "Rocket" (#12). It remained on the charts for three years and has sold 18 million copies worldwide."

― Eazy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know... how many albums did Michael Bolton sell? And are you willing to argue that anything he's released is as good as or better than Pyromania?

My jean jacket had a flower with a yin yang in the middle of it airbrushed on the back.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

But see, "Women" and "Rock It" were essentially the same song. As were "Hysteria" and "Love Bites." So that doesn't count.

Compare Love Bites to Photograph or Brining on the Heartache for pure rock ballad awesomeness.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I had no jean jacket. But, I had a field jacket with spikes and patches from various UK anarcho-punk bands that scared people (including me). I was pretty punk rock for a professor kid from the middle of nowhere. SMASH THE FUCKING SYSTEM etc etc

― dan m, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

"Women" (#80), "Animal" (#19), "Hysteria" (#10), "Pour Some Sugar On Me" (#2), "Love Bites" (#1), "Armageddon It" (#3) and "Rocket" (#12).

if i were in a car and any of these songs came on the radio i don't think i could move fast enough to change the channel. i would endanger myself and the other motorists around me if need be.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

except maybe animal, if i had 3 or 4 beers and was feeling ironic. if i had 6 or 8 beers i'd probably get surly.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

FWIW, I can't stand Def Leppard at all.

― dan m, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, and by the way, when i went over to the post office at 9:45 i saw my first robin of the season. SPRING IS NEAR MOTHERLOVERS!!!

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

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