Okay heard these today and made me wonder??

Question

What is a good Scare? Have you ever had a "Good" Scare and people always say they have bad case of the hiccups but is there such a thing as a good case of the hiccups?? Just my mind wondering is all thought i would voice my ponderings.

where did the idea for cutting the cheese come from? Why do people honk at others for rubber necking at a wreck but hen do it themselves?

Answer 1

One of the definitions of good is "sufficient or ample." To give someone a good scare means that you need to scare them sufficiently enough for the scare to be effective. They need to be really scared or the cure won't work! Have you ever heard someone say that a kid needs a good whoopin' or that a floor needs a good scrubbin'? Again, they mean good as in ample.

[EDIT: HEY, no fair, you doubled up on the questions! ;) Okay, regarding "cut the cheese," that phrase originated in either the 1950s or between 1965-1970, depending on your sources. I've seen at least one person suggest that after you cut the rind on certain cheeses, like brie and d'Auvergne, they get much smellier. It makes sense that this might account for the origins of the phrase.

Here's a related piece of fact (or folklore, I'm not sure) that's kind of interesting. Have you ever wondered why photographers say, "Say cheese!"? Well, long ago, after the camera was first invented, people never smiled in photographs. They posed with stern expressions on their face. One day, during a family portrait, just as a photographer was about to snap a photo, he let out an enormous fart. At first he thought the shot was ruined, but once he developed it, he was surprised to find that it turned out wonderfully - everyone looked so happy! Soon after that, other photographers were trying to get their subjects to laugh. Just prior to snapping a shot, they would say, "Did you hear the one about the photographer that cut the cheese?" It always got a big laugh. Over the years they shortened it to "cut the cheese," and eventually just "cheese." "And so, the fermented dairy product we know as cheese became inexorably linked to the taking of photographs, as it remains to this day."]

Answer 2

A good scare is something that really scares you. Some people are into being scared, not me, and, hence, call it a "good" scare.

Yes, there are good cases of hiccups...ones that don't last very long.

Answer 3

I think the good here applies to the fact that the scare was good, as a scare (a bad scare might not have scared you like the good scare).

Answer 4

reminds me of George Carlin with his questions about
Jumbo shrimp
smart bombs
drive on parkways
park on driveways