Graduating from "Baller" to "Plumber Tastings"

WINE TALK
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To be clear, I think the use of the term “baller” is annoying. But my heart has been warmed by the recent emergence of the term “lumber tasting,” used unironically by some un-named denizens of this fine forum to mean the same thing as “baller.” The speed with which our slang evolved has evolved to include that term is a linguist’s dream.

That said, I’d like to suggest the Cockney rhyming slang-inspired term “plumber tasting” going forward as the next logical stage in the evolution of “baller.” Feel free to use it without attribution.

You’re welcome.

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Plumber? Really?
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Have you seen what they charge lately?

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I think Lumber was used years before Baller.
Always amusing reading big boy’s humble accounts of those heavy lumber events.

As neither, I defer to those that are, have been or strive to be.

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Instead of a balla, I’ll be a plunja.

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Careful what you wish for, J.

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Well, Mark, that explains how you can afford all the wine! But now I’m really confused about the condition of your toilet . . . .

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I actually think baller predates lumber and the Kapon set by a few years. And I think baller was originally a reference to the proclivities or Wilt, Magic, et. al., so I can’t argue with the etymologists who find the word offensive or at least marginally so.

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You’re probably right. I was referring to the wine specific use of the two terms.

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I am deeply offended by your use of the term “plumber,” a well-known and well-worn trope from pornographic films of the 1970s. “Lay some pipe,” indeed.

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There once was a plumber from Lee
Who was plumbing his girl by the sea.
She said, “Stop your plumbing,
There’s somebody coming!”
Said the plumber, still plumbing, “That’s me.”

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Mark B! You are a big swingin’ plunja, fo’ shizzle!

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Pretty sure this thread won’t reach 2 pages.