question to the board

[Joe Gondek]

I'm new to the board and was wondering the is the origin of the term jonesing
As I am waiting for a kilt from the kilt store I guess that I must be jonesing

Joe

[ByDand]

I think is comes from the phrase "Keeping up with the Jones's". So you are "jonesing" or trying to keep up and anxious. That's only my opinion and I could be wrong ??:

[Freelander Sporrano]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...term=+jonesing
Try this link and thats more or less your answer.....

[Southern Breeze]

This has been asked before so I'll just refer you to this thread. It basicly means to have an almost irrational longing for something.
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ighlight=jones

[Barb T]

yes, with a strong addiction component.....

[Pleater]

Addictive - its more than that.

I put on my just remade smaller kilt to walk to the shops and I HAD to pause to use the shop windows as mirrors to check that the pleats were hanging right - and then, as it grew darker I realised that the street lamps cast my shadow and I could see the kilt swinging as I walked. OOooooo.

I'm even sticking to the diet so as to optimise weight loss.

There is a heap of cloth and part make kilts entirely filling a chair - three feet high at least, and the expenditure on safety pins is rediculous.

The use of the iron has increased ten fold and the vacuum cleaner is choking on threads from straightening up the edges of cloth and the tab ends of sewing cotton.

Is there a twelve step program - or am I only just realising this is it for life?