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Post by Lounge Lizard on May 16, 2011 2:21:32 GMT -5
In Tormented when the little girl is talking to the Lou Reed-looking guy on the beach, Crow says something like "My memory is a little bit fuzzy, grease my palm with a sawbuck!". For those who don't know, a sawbuck is a slang term for $10 (sometimes meaning for a $10 bag of weed) that originated in Chicago. I just thought that was a pretty cool reference. Was anyone on the show from Chicago or something?
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Post by mummifiedstalin on May 16, 2011 9:29:39 GMT -5
Minnesota, midwest, ultimately same difference. At one of th CT shows I saw (in Chicago), Joel said that coming to Chicago might as well be coming home. Think of how many Cubs refernces there are, how many times they mention downtown sites (Mag Mile, Navy Pier, Sears Tower all get mentioned fairly often).
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Post by Mr. Atari on May 16, 2011 11:41:18 GMT -5
If memory serves, Kevin lived in Palatine or Mt. Prospect or some other northwest suburb. Growing up in the neighboring town of Wheeling, I always thought it was crazy that they had so many "close-to-home" references for me.
Mrs. Atari grew up in rural, southeast Wisconsin, so a ton of those jokes leave her shaking her head, too.
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Post by mrmeadows on May 16, 2011 13:59:46 GMT -5
I'm from California, and I am familiar with the slang term "sawbuck" for $10, and "double-sawbuck" for $20. (Although while I can't remember for certain, it's very possible that I learned it from this episode of MST3K....)
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Post by Crowfan on May 17, 2011 10:54:00 GMT -5
If memory serves, Kevin lived in Palatine or Mt. Prospect or some other northwest suburb. Growing up in the neighboring town of Wheeling, I always thought it was crazy that they had so many "close-to-home" references for me. Mrs. Atari grew up in rural, southeast Wisconsin, so a ton of those jokes leave her shaking her head, too. I think it was Palatine. They mentioned the DogNSuds there in the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide. |
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on May 17, 2011 13:02:42 GMT -5
They had a great time with the Chicago riffs in Beginning of the End, as the giant grasshoppers ate Joliet and moved on to the City Of Big Shoulders!
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Post by Crowfan on May 17, 2011 16:33:18 GMT -5
"There's my favorite mountain in Illinois"
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Post by mylungswereaching on May 18, 2011 19:10:25 GMT -5
I;ve heard the term sawbucks for $10 since I was a kid in New England. The term predates MST3k by at least 25 years.
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Post by Mitchell on May 18, 2011 20:20:48 GMT -5
I don't see where anyone suggested it originated on the show.
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Post by Lounge Lizard on May 19, 2011 1:52:23 GMT -5
I;ve heard the term sawbucks for $10 since I was a kid in New England. The term predates MST3k by at least 25 years. "For those who don't know, a sawbuck is a slang term for $10 (sometimes meaning for a $10 bag of weed) that originated in Chicago." |
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Post by Mighty Jack on May 19, 2011 4:15:22 GMT -5
I always thought terms like "grease my palm with a sawbuck" came from those old hard boiled detective novels... Hammet, Chandler and the like. After all, they quoted an old pulp detective line in "Angels Revenge" (My roscoe barked "chow, chow!"), so it could have been that they liked reading?
I'm not saying it wasn't a Chicago thing, but inspiration for the riffs could have come from a couple sources.
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Post by Mitchell on May 19, 2011 5:51:14 GMT -5
I looked up the etymology on it; it's at least as old as the 1850s and comes from a dutch word for a device similar to a sawhorse. Its evolution to meaning 10 dollars supposedly comes from the roman numeral X looking like a sawbuck, although the sources aren't specific on where the term came into use for the bill.
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Post by uruseiranma on Oct 3, 2012 13:04:25 GMT -5
I love their riffs on Chicago.
"Hey, I got a great idea for a city: Chicago! I think it might work."
"No problem. We'll move the loop to Schaumburg!"
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