parting is such swee...

June 13, 2019 9:56 AM

At one point in the past I visited a webpage that listed different types of goodbyes (as in "irish goodbye", "czech goodbye", "japanese goodbye", etc.). It listed at least 30 or 40 different variations, all with a specific name. Have you seen this page? I can't for the life of me find it with my searches.

It was not simply a list of other nationalities that were synonymous, each had some amusing variation to it. That said, they were probably all in the vein of an irish goodbye.

As a consolation prize, I will accept your own "[something] goodbye" terms and definitions.

posted by so fucking future to Grab Bag (3 answers total)

This isn't the list, but perhaps "Is It An Irish Goodbye, a French exit, or "to leave the English Way?" might be a good prompt for someone else to remember what you're seeking? The Wikipedia post for French Leave has quite a few others, mostly blaming the English.

And this Slate piece on ghosting has some stories about the variations, including this one, "And then there’s the old, presumably Jewish joke: WASPs leave and don’t say goodbye, Jews say goodbye and don’t leave" the latter part of which I may resemble.
posted by The Wrong Kind of Cheese at 12:41 PM on June 13, 2019 [3 favorites]

A Minnesota goodbye is the inverse of an irish goodbye, and oh, man, is it a real thing up here.
posted by AzraelBrown at 1:47 PM on June 13, 2019 [3 favorites]

I’ve heard “Utah goodbye” used in a similar fashion to Minnesota’s, though (anecdotally) the talking is often one-sided, with the raconteur never noticing the victims’ eyes glazed over long before departure was announced.

Conversational hostage-taking, as it were.
posted by armeowda at 5:36 PM on June 13, 2019 [1 favorite]