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wolf · 12-28-2010, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by skysidhe

Tonto? Like the long ranger's tonto? hehe That's a great expression, anyway.

My new British Swearing Dictionary is not of any assistance here.

I vaguely recall that Tonto is Spanish for "stupid."

I'm guessing it means "completely mental."

skysidhe · 12-28-2010, 02:24 PM

ahh thank you kemo sabe ^

Lamplighter · 12-28-2010, 02:31 PM

For us old folk, tonto has only one meaning... the Lone Ranger's sidekick.
So here's some folk lore in that vein about it meaning "fool"

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Isn't it true that Tonto means "fool" in Spanish?

This *is* true, but it was not that meaning that was intended by the producers of the show.

There are two versions of the story.
Fran Striker told the Saturday Evening Post that he invented Tonto's name
and that it was picked by merely alterring the consanants in the name Bobo.
(This was a caveman character Striker had created in another radio program.)

Jim Jewell says that Striker was remembering wrong.
Tonto, he said, is another Potowatomie word.
There were a few Indians who would come to the camp to tell stories to the children.
One of the Indians apparently had a penchant for drinking after the children had gone to sleep.
Sometimes he would get rowdy and the other Indians would call him "tonto." This meant "wild one."

Jewell remembered the word, liked it, and gave the name to the Lone Ranger's Indian companion.

skysidhe · 12-28-2010, 02:52 PM

Interesting stuff lamp

Sundae · 12-29-2010, 12:00 PM

I had no idea that tonto really meant fool.
We say tonto simply to mean someone going fruitloop or doing their nut.
Or mental, mental, chicken oriental.

Wolf - if it's not rude or crude you probably won't find it in the Profanisaurus

monster · 12-29-2010, 05:01 PM

I have never said "Tonto" or "mental, mental, chicken oriental"

DanaC · 12-29-2010, 07:35 PM

I will confess to having said 'mental mental chicken oriental' once or twice :P Though that has now become shorthanded to mental oriental.

skysidhe · 12-29-2010, 07:42 PM

If I were walking the streets there and I heard grown women saying that, I would not be able to not grin like a tonto.

footfootfoot · 12-29-2010, 11:53 PM

Why, why, chicken thigh or ya know what? chicken butt, that's what.

Never chicken oriental.

plthijinx · 12-29-2010, 11:55 PM

only sushi.

monster · 12-30-2010, 01:10 AM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Never chicken oriental.

How about chicken asian-american?

wolf · 12-30-2010, 01:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

I had no idea that tonto really meant fool.
We say tonto simply to mean someone going fruitloop or doing their nut.
Or mental, mental, chicken oriental.

I like the mental, mental chicken oriental. Flows off the tongue that does.

One of the shorthand terms we use is CCFCP.

(Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs)

Sundae · 12-30-2010, 06:33 AM

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Originally Posted by monster

I have never said "Tonto" or "mental, mental, chicken oriental"

Have you ever said, "I'll risk it for a biscuit?"

DanaC · 12-30-2010, 07:14 AM

I'd definately risk it for a biscuit.

I suspect that the advert that started that whole 'mental mental, chicken oriental' thing went out after monster left the uk. Early -mid 90s as i recall.

Sundae · 12-30-2010, 08:14 AM

It was an advert?!
Well there you go - I thought it was just a random phrase.

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12-30-2010, 08:14 AM	#6090
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	It was an advert?! Well there you go - I thought it was just a random phrase. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

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skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	ahh thank you kemo sabe ^

12-28-2010, 02:52 PM	#6079
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	Interesting stuff lamp

12-29-2010, 07:42 PM	#6083
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	If I were walking the streets there and I heard grown women saying that, I would not be able to not grin like a tonto.

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