JAM in action
Written by hootenannie on April 29th, 2009Julie [about our 61-year old next-door neighbor]
“I want Neal to fall in love. I wonder if he has a beau?”
Annie
“A beau is a man.”
Julie
“What – really? I always thought it was gender-neutral.”
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Mel
“Do we have koozies?”
Annie
“No… but… we have couscous?”
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Mel [singing at the top of her lungs]
“Listen to the battering ram…”
Annie
“Mel, it’s ‘Mandolin Rain.’”
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[at the end of “Marley and Me”]
JAM
SOB.
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i thought beau was gender neutral as well… is there a feminine equivalent?
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Hmmm… “broad”? :)
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lady friend? (eewww–I hate that phrase)
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Marley and Me- so good, but boy did we sob too:) And then held Burly and gave him about a thousand treats and let him sleep in our bed:)
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i always thought of beau as being gender neutral too. c’mon annie, it IS 2009 after all.
through the whole movie ‘marley and me’…SOB
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Annie, it sounds like your roomies are learning a lot from you! Thank goodness they have you!
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Beau is male.
Belle is female.
Both just mean a beautiful man or beautiful woman… but over the years became synonymous with boyfriend/girlfriend.
I’m just full of googlery!
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/belle
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Yeah, “Broad” is a very derogatory term implying that a woman is person of low moral standing/ a person of ill repute. Also it implies that she is low even amoung other women of her sort.
“Belle” is what you’re looking for with out a doubt.
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I always thought the song went “listen to the rhythm of the rain…” At least I got “rain” out of it. Great song.