Chad

[Shatnerfan]

Derivation please. As used at least twice by Joe Pasquale in IAC.

In context I assume it meant bottom. How?

[natalie_1982]

I'm probably completely wrong but I thought he said 'Chads' rhyming with Nads, and when I was younger nads was a word we used for Jacobs :)

[Shatnerfan]

Thanks for the answer but that can't be it

When Janet was on the 'jungle swing' and Joe was on the ground he said something like 'I never thought I'd be looking at your chad from this angle.'

By the way, I still use the word nads occasionally - often used by DJs Mark & Lard.

[natalie_1982]

I thought I was the only one who knew the word nads!

There were some chewy sweets out for a while called fruity nads, obviously endless one liners to be had there, but their slogan was "Do you want to chew my fruity nads?".  Nice.

[natalie_1982]

Now you got me thinking, hope this isn't too rude for people.....

Chad Valley?

I'll leave it with you.....

[Quizmonster]

Mr Chad was a wartime cartoon-style figure. The picture consisted of the top half of a bald head with a large nose looking over a brick wall. It appeared as if the nose was so big and round it could droop over the top. Each such picture had a caption reading: "Wot? No...!" It might be eggs, bullets or whatever fitted into the specific situation being referred to.

It is from this source that we had the 'hanging chad' fiasco during the 2000 US Presidential election...ie a bulbous, drooping piece of paper in this case which had not been cleanly punched out of the voting forms...just like Mr Chad's nose.

My guess, therefore, is that anything round and dangling - such as a lady's bottom on a swing! - would qualify as a 'chad', too. (I must confess I've never heard the word used thus, but it seems a reasonable explanation.) 

[natalie_1982]

And Chad Valley isn't QM?

[Quizmonster]

My dear lady, I posted my answer at exactly the same moment as you did - as you can see I wrote considerably more and hence it took me that much longer - so I'd no idea anyone had even mentioned 'Chad Valley'. Now that I have seen it, it does seem reasonable...but certainly no more reasonable than 'Mr Chad/hanging chad' does.

[natalie_1982]

I'm joshing of course :)

I think for any decent person to talk about 'chads' on TV, I would hope it would be hanging chad as opposed to a valley :)

[Hgrove]

I am completely confused by the reference to Chad Valley. If not too rude could someone explain?  The only Chad Valley that I know is a make of Woolworth's own toys.

[Quizmonster]

Natalie is obviously the horse's mouth on that HG, but my interpretation was that the 'valley' was a reference to 'bottom cleavage'...ie the vale between the two hillocks oft seen on crouching builders, for example.

[Kay]

"Chad" is slang for a womens cleavage.  Nads is also a depilotary gel.

[Hgrove]

I wonder if all the parents who buy Woolworths toys (and Woolies themselves) realise...

[Octavius]

Wot no answer?

[Octavius]

It was a form of grafitti used during WW2 to annoy the authorities.  Taken from a New York Times cartoon called Mr Chad, by JJ Kilroy. 

When there were rations etc, walls would be daubed with a little cartoon head peering over a wall, with hands either side and his nose dangling down.  The caption underneath always started with the "Wot no...?" so during war time it might have been anything that was in short supply "Wot no sugar?" or "Wot no bananas?".  The chad 'cartoon image' had a heavily over-used revival in the 1980's.  "Wot no goals?" etc etc

[Octavius]

Perhaps you could explain the context as I didn't see IAC either.  But I would take it to mean that something (possibly food or talent) was in short supply.

[natalie_1982]

I thought of Valley as the bum cheeks being the hills and the valley being, well...er... a valley.

[natalie_1982]

In my defence at that point there had been no real answers!

[Shatnerfan]

Octavius, when Janet was on a 'jungle swing' and Joe was on the ground he said something like 'I never thought I'd be looking at your chad from this angle.'

The other time I noticed was when he was checking Fran's behind for ticks.

Thanks to everyone who's speculated but I guess we'll only know for sure if someone asks JP on a chat show.

[Quizmonster]

Surely all we need now is for someone who actually saw the wretched programme to tell us whether Joe Pasquale was looking at the woman's front or her back when he used the word! Presumably you did, Shatnerfan, so, are we talking about bum-cleavage, as Natalie and I imagine or breast-cleavage, as Fina says? It looks like it means 'cleavage' one way or t'other! For goodness' sake, let's put the tin hat on this one once and for all!

[Shatnerfan]

His gaze was directed at Janet's posterior.