From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V3 #90 Reply-To: good-noise@smoe.org Sender: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk good-noise-digest Monday, October 2 2000 Volume 03 : Number 090 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Just curious... [Greg Steele ] Dropping a Dime [ImSerius2@aol.com] Drop a Dime Revisited [ImSerius2@aol.com] Re: Drop a Dime Revisited ["Steve McGraw" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 12:12:57 -0400 From: Greg Steele Subject: Re: Just curious... SESpeirs@aol.com wrote: > > Mike wondered > << if someone could explain to me exactly what > "dropping dime" means. I've heard in two different songs, I'm not quite > sure of it's meaning, but you can do out by the highway or in a parking lot. > Any ideas?>> > > I do believe dropping a dime means making a phone call. Specifically > from a pay phone, which used to cost a dime. > > Shirley I thought that "dropped a dime" was related to the guy and his date throwing "a ten dollar bill at her feet", and was their way of calling her as a cheap whore. Pardon my french. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 14:10:25 EDT From: ImSerius2@aol.com Subject: Dropping a Dime This is too weird: On the topic of the origin of the phrase to 'drop a dime' on someone: JUST now my husband tuned in the movie 'Another 48 Hours'. In the opening credits, one of the characters said 'he dropped a dime on my brother, ratted him out to the cops'. This was too, too spooky, for we had just, and I mean JUST been discussing that that's what we thought the phrase meant - to rat on someone. Just my dime's worth ST ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 22:40:53 EDT From: ImSerius2@aol.com Subject: Drop a Dime Revisited call me obsessive - the definition below is from http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html Drop a dime: Make a phone call, sometimes meaning to the police to inform on someone Check this website out, especially if you've always wanted to sound like Sam Spade or Phillip Marlowe. Now back to your regularly scheduled Gorka discussion. ST ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 03:30:25 -0400 From: "Steve McGraw" Subject: Re: Drop a Dime Revisited Thanks for the dope, Bo; I've gone to the dump you fingered and checked out the rap, and it was all silk and duck soup! I appreciate the opportunity to get a slant; it's a good rumble. Nice chinning wit ya! Steve - -----Original Message----- From: ImSerius2@aol.com To: good-noise@smoe.org Date: Sunday, October 01, 2000 10:48 PM Subject: Drop a Dime Revisited >call me obsessive - the definition below is from > >http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html > >Drop a dime: Make a phone call, sometimes meaning to the police to inform on >someone > >Check this website out, especially if you've always wanted to sound like Sam >Spade or Phillip Marlowe. > >Now back to your regularly scheduled Gorka discussion. > >ST ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V3 #90 *******************************