Jafo, It has happened again!
Saturday, April 30, 2005 by _02 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I uploaded a Screen Shot today for moderation. It is stuck in "processing". My biggest problem though, is all my previous screen shots are gone from my skins page. When I click on "all libraries" it takes me back to the one shot I just uploaded. Can you help? Thanks alot. Cindi
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Jafo
Reply #2 Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:51 AM
Reply #2 Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:51 AM
However....there seems to be a general problem with personal pages.....
Jafo goes checking....
_02
Reply #4 Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:58 AM
Reply #4 Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:58 AM
Wow! You are quick. It pays to go straight to the top! Thanks alot Jafo. 
Boss019
Reply #5 Saturday, April 30, 2005 3:12 PM
Reply #5 Saturday, April 30, 2005 3:12 PM
Thought it was hunkie dorie....Is that in the dictionary? 
Double Zero
Reply #8 Saturday, April 30, 2005 7:17 PM
Reply #8 Saturday, April 30, 2005 7:17 PM
LoL..Nope guys Jafo got it correct..as usual..It always has been "Honkey Dory"
Dont tell anyone but he's kinda showing his age using that phrase..LoL..
Zero.
Dont tell anyone but he's kinda showing his age using that phrase..LoL..
Zero.
Boss019
Reply #9 Sunday, May 1, 2005 12:01 AM
Reply #9 Sunday, May 1, 2005 12:01 AM
I'll believe Jafo, but I need proof from you Zero...not that I don't believe ya... you're old too 
But they didn't say it that way where I came from...and I'm old too..maybe that's the Aussie version? 
But they didn't say it that way where I came from...and I'm old too..maybe that's the Aussie version? 
starkers
Reply #10 Sunday, May 1, 2005 12:59 AM
Reply #10 Sunday, May 1, 2005 12:59 AM
I remember honk dory from the 50's, 60's in England, so it's not necessarily the Aussie version - does Jafo remember "tickety boo"? Now That"s Aussie! 
Double Zero
Reply #11 Sunday, May 1, 2005 1:10 AM
Reply #11 Sunday, May 1, 2005 1:10 AM
LMAO..on another message board the phrase was used just this evening believe it or not! and it was used as "Hunky Dory".. I still remember it as "Honkey Dory" every since I was a kid... I suppose it's one of those phrases that works however you use it..::laughs::
Sleeping Dragon
Reply #12 Sunday, May 1, 2005 8:06 AM
Reply #12 Sunday, May 1, 2005 8:06 AM
Honky denotes a racial slur here in the states. Maybe that is why we say Hunky Dory.
Double Zero
Reply #13 Sunday, May 1, 2005 8:34 AM
Wouldnt be interesting to know the history of the phrase? ::laughs:: perhaps it was thought up and used by those of the "Non-Honkey" side of the "slur"...I doubt it, LoL!
Although SD your right, however I have not heard it used as a slur in over 25 years, and I have been all over the "States"..There are more creative ones now, unfortunately..::sighs::
Zero.
Reply #13 Sunday, May 1, 2005 8:34 AM
| Honky denotes a racial slur here in the states. Maybe that is why we say Hunky Dory. |
Wouldnt be interesting to know the history of the phrase? ::laughs:: perhaps it was thought up and used by those of the "Non-Honkey" side of the "slur"...I doubt it, LoL!
Although SD your right, however I have not heard it used as a slur in over 25 years, and I have been all over the "States"..There are more creative ones now, unfortunately..::sighs::
Zero.
werewolf
Reply #14 Sunday, May 1, 2005 9:51 AM
Reply #14 Sunday, May 1, 2005 9:51 AM
Don'cha just love google?
[Q] From Brad Lytle: “I’m not sure how you would spell hunky dorey, but it means ‘just great’, or something like that. Where does it come from?”
[A] The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang suggests that the term may have been introduced in America about 1865 by a popular variety performer named Japanese Tommy. Other references suggest that it may have been sailors’ slang for a street in Yokohama that catered for what one might describe as the special needs of sailors. In Yokohama today a broad thoroughfare called Honcho-dori runs from the centre of the city to the port area, so one that would have been familiar to sailors (dori is the Japanese word for a road, in particular a broad or important one).
What seems certain is that hunky-dory was a play on an existing sense of the word hunky for something that was fine, splendid or satisfactory. In turn, this probably derives from the adjective hunk, which means that one is all right or in a safe or good position. This derives from the Dutch honk, meaning “goal” or “home” in a Frisian variant of the game of tag. This word (and presumably the game, too) was said to have been taken by the Dutch to New Amsterdam, later New York, but was first recorded only around the 1840s. It has links to another reduplicated term, hunkum-bunkum. Though the first part sounds a bit like the hunker of hunker down (which is also of Dutch origin), the words seem not to be related.
It may be that hunky-dory was the result of a bilingual pun, perhaps invented because American sailors knew the word dori and prefixed it with hunky as an imagined Japanese street of earthly delights.
And another similar one:
From William and Mary Morris's Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins: The story goes that the principal street of Yokohama was Huncho-dori street. (OK, Danny, is that true today?) A sailor on shore leave would feel that everything was OK when he was on the main street.
Another story however (attributed by the Morrises to Charles Earle Funk) traces the origin back to the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam: taking the word hunk as derived from the Dutch word honk for goal. When you reached the goal, everything was hunky-dory. How the dory got into the expression was not clear.
We do know that Christy's Minstrels of the mid-nineteenth century popularized a bit of corn called "Josiphus Orange Blossom" that contained the lyric "red hot hunky-dory contraband." The song was a hit and hunky-dory came into the language.
That song arose during the Civil War. Since Japan was not opened to foreign ships until Commodore Perry's visit in 1854, it seems somewhat doubtful that the Yokohama theory holds water. More likely, hunky-dory was already a slang term when American sailors first had shore leave to Huncho-dori Street.
[Q] From Brad Lytle: “I’m not sure how you would spell hunky dorey, but it means ‘just great’, or something like that. Where does it come from?”
[A] The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang suggests that the term may have been introduced in America about 1865 by a popular variety performer named Japanese Tommy. Other references suggest that it may have been sailors’ slang for a street in Yokohama that catered for what one might describe as the special needs of sailors. In Yokohama today a broad thoroughfare called Honcho-dori runs from the centre of the city to the port area, so one that would have been familiar to sailors (dori is the Japanese word for a road, in particular a broad or important one).
What seems certain is that hunky-dory was a play on an existing sense of the word hunky for something that was fine, splendid or satisfactory. In turn, this probably derives from the adjective hunk, which means that one is all right or in a safe or good position. This derives from the Dutch honk, meaning “goal” or “home” in a Frisian variant of the game of tag. This word (and presumably the game, too) was said to have been taken by the Dutch to New Amsterdam, later New York, but was first recorded only around the 1840s. It has links to another reduplicated term, hunkum-bunkum. Though the first part sounds a bit like the hunker of hunker down (which is also of Dutch origin), the words seem not to be related.
It may be that hunky-dory was the result of a bilingual pun, perhaps invented because American sailors knew the word dori and prefixed it with hunky as an imagined Japanese street of earthly delights.
And another similar one:
From William and Mary Morris's Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins: The story goes that the principal street of Yokohama was Huncho-dori street. (OK, Danny, is that true today?) A sailor on shore leave would feel that everything was OK when he was on the main street.
Another story however (attributed by the Morrises to Charles Earle Funk) traces the origin back to the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam: taking the word hunk as derived from the Dutch word honk for goal. When you reached the goal, everything was hunky-dory. How the dory got into the expression was not clear.
We do know that Christy's Minstrels of the mid-nineteenth century popularized a bit of corn called "Josiphus Orange Blossom" that contained the lyric "red hot hunky-dory contraband." The song was a hit and hunky-dory came into the language.
That song arose during the Civil War. Since Japan was not opened to foreign ships until Commodore Perry's visit in 1854, it seems somewhat doubtful that the Yokohama theory holds water. More likely, hunky-dory was already a slang term when American sailors first had shore leave to Huncho-dori Street.
Double Zero
Reply #16 Sunday, May 1, 2005 10:34 AM
Reply #16 Sunday, May 1, 2005 10:34 AM
LMAO..Well thank you for the clarification Werewolf!!
Apparently it is "Hunky Dory" at least it would appear to be by everything you have posted..
I had a suspicion that it was some sort of "merritime" term from ages ago, just from the "Dory" portion of it, but honestly I didnt know..
Anyway, quite interesting..
Now I can actually use the phrase correctly and have a general idea of what it means!..LoL
Zero.
Apparently it is "Hunky Dory" at least it would appear to be by everything you have posted..
I had a suspicion that it was some sort of "merritime" term from ages ago, just from the "Dory" portion of it, but honestly I didnt know..
Anyway, quite interesting..
Now I can actually use the phrase correctly and have a general idea of what it means!..LoL
Zero.
_02
Reply #17 Saturday, May 7, 2005 11:27 PM
Reply #17 Saturday, May 7, 2005 11:27 PM
It has happened again! All my skins are gone since I uploaded a ss. Maybe it works itself out. Let me know if that is the case so I don't bother you with it again.The preview of my ss looks funny too. Thanks!
Jafo
Reply #19 Sunday, May 8, 2005 6:23 AM
Reply #19 Sunday, May 8, 2005 6:23 AM
Nope...they're all there....looks like you have to have a stern and harsh talk to your IE cache [and scold a few cookies, too]...
Must recent one is 'Mothers day'...
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Reply #1 Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:49 AM