Where does the term "Queer as a $3 bill" orginiate and what does it mean?
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Good answer above.  \n\nIn the UK we have used "as queer as a nine bob note". This was before decimilisation and there was no such thing as a nine bob note.
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I've never known it to mean anything other than the woman might like wearing jewerly. And whoever said it means that she's gay...you need to think before you answer because it absolutely does not mean she's gay.
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That's pretty funny--assuming you were trying to be funny!\n\nThe US Mint pays all its obligations--including the power bill--from the budget appropriated to it by the Treasury Department.
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Multiple answers, depending on who you are talking to.\n\nHere's one way of looking at it:\n"Gay" is primarily focused on Gay men.  "Queer" is an umbrella term that includes Gay men, Lesbians, Bisexual men and women, Transgender people, Intersexed people, and some who are questioning or seeking.  (Some people include other kinds of sex and gender radicals, besides LGBT people, as Queer also, but this is controversial and no clear consensus exists.)\n\nHere's another way:\n"Gay" just refers to sexual preference.  "Queer" is a political and cultural identification with the socially transgressive, challenging, rebellious quality of LGBT life.  Because "Queer" is traditionally a term of abuse of LGBT people, it is "reclaimed" as a symbol of pride and resistance to oppression.\n\nPeople who describe themselves as Queer are generally among the more politically involved and more progressive or radical segments of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender community.\n\n"Homosexual," by the way, is a clinical, pathologizing term, which many Queer people consider offensive, although they do not consider Queer, which is originally a slur, offensive--unless it is being used as a slur by homophobes.\n\nThis is confusing, but it is an important distinction in the contemporary LGBT community in America.
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a derogatory term for a male homosexual.
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I suggest you read "Queer Theory" by Annamarie Jagose and "History of Sexuality" by Michel Foucault.\n\nAccording to Jagose, the word "gay" became mainstream in the mid 20th century. Wikipedia reports that it is documented as being used for same-gender sex as early as the 1920s. However, according to Wikipedia as well, the word first became associated with sexual connotations as early at the 17th century:\n\n"The word started to acquire sexual connotations in the late 17th century, being used with meaning "addicted to pleasures and dissipations". This was by extension from the primary meaning of "carefree": implying "uninhibited by moral constraints". By the late nineteenth century the term "gay life" was a well-established euphemism for prostitution and other forms of extramarital sexual behaviour that were perceived as immoral."\n\nAs for f-ag, it comes primarily from prostitution. I think this is especially interesting (Wiki): \n\n"A f-ag (personal servant) was a junior boy who acted as servant to a senior boy at a British independent school."\n\nNow, I thought I would also bring up that I actually hate the word Homosexual. It was invented in 1869 primarily for the purpose of pathologizing same-sex relations. Homosexual is supposed to be some kind of politically correct term these days, but I find it far more insulting than, say, Queer, because it's seens as the "opposite" of heterosexual. I also suggest you read "The Trouble with Normal" by Michael Warner fore more information.\n\nSo I leave you with this qupte below. Please contact me if you want to discuss this further. I love Queer Theory!\n\n"To me, queer is the radical potential to choose one's gender and one's sexual and social identities, to embrace a radical outsider's perspective, to create culture on our terms and to challenge everything that's sickening about the dominant culture around us" \n--Matt Bernstein Sycamore
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I understand it to mean paying for something with assistance.\n\nFor example:\n\n"I had to pay for my college 'out of pocket'".  In that case meaning I paid for it without any help at all except money I was to provide directly or would repay back in the form of loans.\n_____________________________________________________\n\nThis use of the phrase started in the southern and southwestern US, and is still more common there than elsewhere. It comes from the game of pool, in which an "out of pocket" shot - a player fails to sink a ball into a pocket - means a missed turn. Therefore, "I am not available" (to play my turn). The phrase was also used by US Afro-Americans in the 1940s-70s to refer to someone acting in an unacceptable or tasteless manner.
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I am sure its legal since you altered it and are not using it as legal tender or even trying to convince anyone it is.\n\nI get coupons occasionally that look like a hundred dollar bill on one side and on the back side is a coupon for something.  I've seen money that looks real except for the face in the center is Alfred E Newman or some other odd character.\nSo obviously its okay to make a "spoof" or parody of currency, its just not okay to try and pass it off as real.
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The really weird thing about the Quick Check in my neighborhood.  All the employees are gay/lesbian.  It is the only establishment of this sort and my town doesn't have many gays in it (the gay area is about 20 miles away in another city).\n\nWiggy.
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the word means, rewarding.\n\n1.giving money in hard currency\n2.giving access to classified information/services/resources\n3.giving token/coupens\n4.giving leverage in some way
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It means Cross Dresser Lesbian. Some CDs are hetero, some are bi, some are gay. CDL's prefer to have sex with other crossdressers like themselves, as if they were both girls.
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Yes, I've heard that phrase used to indicate that a man is gay.  I guess it refers to the habit of some guys, like Richard Simmons for example, to prance and dance around.  I like Richard Simmons, he's cool.
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what people use it for now is calling someone homosexual in a mean way. saying faggot instead of gay is supposed to be meaner. faggot used to mean a bundle of wood. not sure how it went from that to and insult, but whatever.
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Depends what you mean by "queer", that's rather an antiquated expression.\n\nOf course there are many movie and music stars who are gay, more power to them.\n\nI'm curious why you insult gays and then insult straights also - does anyone get it right in your world?
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There aren't any listed in online thesaureses.\n\nHowever, thinking creatively, synonyms could include fare-gate [a place to pay a fare] or turnstile [place to pay subway fare] if you mean "a place to pay a fare/toll for passage."\n\nIf you mean a small enclosed place, there is booth, closet, box, enclosure, etc.\n\nAn antonym for "tollbooth" would be something like a "free passage gate" or "fare-free entrance."
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Usually its "are you a friend of Dorothy?". Quite a bit outdated from when homosexuality was a criminal offence and you could be jailed. But it was code for those in the know, if someone was gay or not. And it was a Wizard of Oz reference.
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i've heard this question before. \ni could speculate. but my answer and a $2 bill would only get you a cup of coffee, maybe.\nthe #666 means the 6th seal, the sixth trump, and the sixth vial.\nbetter get to studying quick!