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[Stripey]

Giant Heart Attack Kills Mike Reid - Hecklerspray: Music, Movies, TV, Celebs, Games and Gossip

Originally Posted by Stripey

Giant Heart Attack Kills Mike Reid - Hecklerspray: Music, Movies, TV, Celebs, Games and Gossip

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Originally Posted by DustyDeviada

"cob-nobbling", ha. I don't know what it means, but it sounds damn good.

The history of cob-nobbling is long and complex.

The roots of the term lie with the New York Times, if I remember correctly. When 'Nevermind' went to no1 in America, and grunge became the word on everyone's lips, the New York Times contacted the offices of Sub Pop to get the lowdown on this new musical development. However, rather than getting through to Bruce Pavitt or Jonathon Ponemann, they got through to someone who worked in their distribution department.

Seeing an opportunity for a jape, the girl they spoke to gave an entirely ficticous history of grunge. The highlight of the article was a selection of completely made up 'grunge slang terms' that young hipsters in Seattle would use. For me, the most memorable one was 'cob-nobbler', which refers to someone who is a loser.

Actually, here is a full article on the subject (which includes a few details that are different from my history, mainly becuase I couldn't remember it).

Grungegate

other brilliant terms include 'lame-stain', 'wack slacks', and 'swinging on the flippity-flop'.

[lepeep]

Surely a cob nobbler is someone who nobbles cobs ?
and we all know a cob is a small bread bun.
so, are the semantics of "nobble" to steal? to eat? to create a bumpy surface? or perhaps an Americanism for "making noble"...
so, we could have a person who has the power bestowed upon them to raise a bun to elevated stature and importance in land ownership and stewardship...

no?

Originally Posted by lepeep

Surely a cob nobbler is someone who nobbles cobs ?
and we all know a cob is a small bread bun.
so, are the semantics of "nobble" to steal? to eat? to create a bumpy surface? or perhaps an Americanism for "making noble"...
so, we could have a person who has the power bestowed upon them to raise a bun to elevated stature and importance in land ownership and stewardship...

no?

I'm not sure. I'm too busy swinging on the flippity-flop to know.