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Another related word is "assclown" — which, as far as I can tell, was created accidentally when actor David Herman delivered a line of dialoge with emphasis on
by pohl 4y ago
Another related word is "assclown" — which, as far as I can tell, was created accidentally when actor David Herman delivered a line of dialoge with emphasis on the wrong syllable while filming Office Space.
He was meant to call Michael Bolton a "no-talent-ass clown", but delivered the line as "no-talent ass-clown".
Or something like that. And now assclown is a thing.
- Apocryphon 4y agoConfirmed by OP: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-assclown-mean-slang-definition https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-assc...
- OJFord 4y agoNot that it was not the intended reading though, unless I'm missing it, just that the term likely came from the film?
- sph 4y agohttps://xkcd.com/37/ https://xkcd.com/37/
- atoav 4y agoOf course there is an xkcd about it
- Tao332 4y agoVintage xkcd from the grid paper days.
- julianlam 4y agoAm I old?
- LordDragonfang 4y ago>(October 28, 2005)
- wavefunction 4y agonah Office resonates because it MIRRORED real life en vérité, not the other way around. That's always been Mike Judge's strength, casting the actual as fantastic as it really is for better or often worse. we were saying assclown or azzclown before the movie but it hit so sweetly thus
- PantaloonFlames 4y agoI always thought of it as separated by a slash. Ass/clown.