Queer wlw code for "Do you like girls?" or "Are you lesbian/bi?" Violets were long ago gifted between women who were lovers, and the violet has come to symbolize sapphic love or romantic interest.
"Hey, Lauren, I'm looking forward to brunch tomorrow, but I was wondering do you like violets?"
Picking violets is part of the flowercode for lesbians. The phrase comes from the famous poet Sappho of Lesbos (for whom the word lesbian was named) and it was thought that Sappho would give violets to the girl who she was wooing.
“all the violet tiaras,
braided rosebuds, dill and
crocus twined around your young neck” -Sappho
Picking violets:
Me: picked any violets lately?
Girl: No but maybe we can pick some together?
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).