Can anyone of you clever Loungers tell me...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

The source of the phrase thrown under the bus?

I know what it means...

But I don't know where it came from!

And I'd like to...

Thanks...

:hi:

[RoyGBiv]

1. According to urbandictionary.com ...

"Phrase made popular by a small town graphic designer in northern Michigan after watching two battling chipmonks attempt to hurl one another under a fast moving shortbus. Denotes an individual's willingness to sacrifice another's future and recognition for one's own gain. Blatant disregard for another's well-being. Betrayal."

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=thrown+under+the+bus

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Thanks, my dear RoyGBiv!

I appreciate your finding this out for me!

:hi:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

2. I just googled it

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=under+the+bus

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear DeposeTheBoyKing!

Thanks, sweetie!

I appreciate your efforts on my behalf...:hug:

[Gormy Cuss]

5. A different sourcing, courtesy of William Safire of the NY Times

The meaning of this distinctive American verbal phrase goes beyond “reject” or “dissociate from” to a more vividly figurative expression of “to damage a reputation; to use as a scapegoat.” For its origin, I turn to our leading popular slanguist, Paul Dickson, author of “Slang —the Topical Dictionary of Americanisms,” just deliciously updated. Origin?

He says he believes it to be back-formed from a baseball team’s clubhouse man, who called for the ballplayers to board the team bus with “Bus leaving. Be on it or under it.” The slanguicographer backs this up with a citation from a 1980 Washington Post article and offers another usage that extends beyond sports: the rocker Cyndi Lauper in 1984 was quoted as saying: “In the rock ’n’ roll business you are either on the bus or under it. Playing ‘Feelings’ with Eddie and the Condos in a buffet bar in Butte is under the bus.” <[/div>

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/magazine/19wwln_safire.html?ei=5088&en=a21ab07af4bda93e&ex=1321592400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1189915543-dVa8TixsbB8aPgkeWzHtHg

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear Gormy Cuss!

Oh, thank you, sweetie!

This is fascinating stuff...

I appreciate the link!

:hi:

[Parche]

7. My Dear CaliforniaPeggy

Came From Greyhound?



:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

"Panic button pressed. Passengers returned. One side always in the sunlight, the other always in darkness; the known and the unknown. Frightening to each other only when they are both unknown... and misunderstood."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. My dear Parche!

Oh, I hope not!

That's a pretty scary scenario!

I'm sure they wouldn't want to be associated with such an idea!

:scared:


:rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. At the Last Supper Jesus said, "Judas, do what you must, and throw yourself under the bus thereby"

It's from the Gospel of Luke 22:31

"And after supper, Jesus said, 'Judas, do what you must, and throw yourself under the bus thereby', for Jesus knew the death by hanging by which Judas would kill himself for his betrayal, the phrase 'under the bus' being one of His favorite phrases when about to succumb to Divine schadenfreude, as was His great pleasure. And the Disciples did laugh and throw almonds and figs at Judas until he cried, and left.".

[idgiehkt]

9. yeah, he even tried texting Jesus three times to explain things...

that's in the next chapter. ;)

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. "Dude, m in the garden - where r u?!?!?!?!?!"

as he became increasingly impatient and the Roman guards were beginning to think he was lying.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. My dear Rabrrrrrr!

What have you done to my thread?

And in Jesus' name!!!


You are too funny, sweetie...

:rofl: :rofl: