A cursory Gsearch seems to indicate this means to act strangely as if on drugs. But have you ever heard the expr used this way

Thanks anybody

Never heard it.

Never heard of a Gsearch, either.

I've heard it to mean someone's in a bad mood: 'watch out, he's on one'.

zm: It's what you do to get Ghits

Ghits

Never heard of Ghits. Do you mean ghats?

zm: The G is for Google. It has become a pretty common expr

"Ghits Google" gets 652 Ghits

Google

Google? Are you sure? Isn't it spelled googol? Or Gogol maybe?

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Never heard of a Gsearch, either.

Actually, I thought you meant a search for someone's g-string...which sounded a bit risqué to me. [Doesn't that sound like something Asa would say?]

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[Doesn't that sound like something Asa would say?]

Nah - I know right where my g-strings are. For your purposes, isn't a g-string a list of links on Google?

What I don't understand is why Barney Google, the old cartoon character, is running an internet search engine. He's gotta be a really old fart by now.

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Actually, I thought you meant a search for someone's g-string

And a successful conclusion of that search might, might it not, lead to one being on one?

hmmm...

I thought Ghits was/were some sort of southern breakfast food. (Are grits singular or plural?)

I've never heard the expression "on one," but maybe it's just short for "on a rampage."

southern breakfast food

No, wait, I think you're thinkin' 'bout ghee (clarified butter). What them Indians eat with they fried bread.

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Originally posted by wordmatic:
hmmm...

I thought Ghits was/were some sort of southern breakfast food. (Are grits singular or plural?)

It's what them Sutherners serve when they want everybody to git along: Harmony ghits. Harmony is just big,fat corn - which seems appropriate for this here conversation...

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ghee (clarified butter)

Clarified? Was it confused before? What does butter have to be confusled about???

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Actually, I thought you meant a search for someone's g-string

Why do the call it a g-string? Has someone checked that the pitch isn't A or C#? Doesn't that depend on how tightly it's stretched?

I see your answers on AWAD are a little more on point. Sorry, Dale, but we enjoyed having fun with this one.

k: No need to apologize

Thanks, though, to Cat

On one was very common 1990ish UK acid house speak.
It meant to be on drugs (particularly E)
It now sounds as dated as the following:
nice one
sorted
matey
loved up
acieeed

That's odd - I edited my post and saved it but the edit has disappeared.

It was just the addition of the word 'off', anyway, as in 'watch out, he's off on one'. That's a more accurate description as to what I've heard in relation to someone in a mood.

Cat, you are indeed trustworthy

Unlike Bill Gates and his elves

"On one" seems to be in a similar semantic category with "temper."

"Boy! That person really has a temper," one might say, but this is usually said only after he has LOST his temper.

Cat, earlier in the week Infopop, which runs our software, had a huge power outage. That's why the site was down for so long, and I imagine that might have had something to do with your edit disappearing.

K,

You're out of date! They're not Infopop any more, they call themselves eve Groupee (this month, at least - they are about due for another name change).

Oh, silly me! There were only TWO "o"s in Infopoop!

eve Groupee is the name of the company? I thought it was still Infopop.