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Trivial Pursuits => Wild Card => Topic started by: Nabubrush on March 31, 2004, 02:52:39 am
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So, I call my sweetie a dish. I know people don't use that expression much anymore, but it certainly fits her. Anybody else?
I'm also kind of crotchety sometimes.
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I use 'oh dear' instead of 'oh shit' or 'oh fuck.'
I thought I was being ironic, me, a big burly guy using an expression most closely associated with the stereotypical grandmother character. But then I heard Robert Plant say it on HTWWW and realized I have been aligned with the height of cool all along.
~Paul
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I picked up "cookin' with gas" for a while.
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I got "cookin' with gas" and "you are getting on my last nerve" from a woman I worked with.
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Pretty much everything I say is either to some extent antiquated or just otherwise outside the vernacular: rad, tubular, nifty, swell, my stars!, egad!, drat!, and so on.
I also tend to speak even in casual circumstances with extreme technical correctness and am generally perceived as not making much sense.
So basically I really dislike the way in which the Youth of Today express themselves and am resisting it as much as I can.
Oh yeah, and I'm really, really pretentious.
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I said that a girl was "the bee's knees" the other day, and use the phrase "the living end" quite often.
Golly, this sure is swell!
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i'm not sure if it's so much antiquated as it is just dumb, but i have a tendency to say "now we're cookin' with crisco".
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I said that a girl was "the bee's knees" the other day, and use the phrase "the living end" quite often.
Golly, this sure is swell!
I can't say/hear "bee's knees" without following it up with "the wasp's nipples."
And lately I've taken to saying "aces!" Sometimes I even throw in a "baby" afterwards.
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I keep using "I'll give you what for!" It's definitely antiquated, as I picked it up from 1936 Strong Bad.
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I occasionally use 'I'll tell you this for free'. Which gets odd looks.
'Mutt's Nutt's' I guess isn't so old fashioned but gets said.
Most of the things I say are fairly antiquated too really. Or I guess I just feel that way because I tend to speak in good English, while no one else around me does.
My brother had an unfortunate phase when he kept saying 'cool beans'. It was frustrating.
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I'd re-join this discussion, but I've got to see a man about a dog.
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'I'll tell you this for free'
Oh my, yes.
I call the sweet girl a dame sometimes, too. She likes it when I say things like that.
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My brother had an unfortunate phase when he kept saying 'cool beans'. It was frustrating.
that was my catch-phrase for awhile, i say it on occassion still but less and less as it was "co-opted" by a nemesis.
i really don't know the etymology of it, though, nor do i recall when or where it was that i picked it up. i seem to recall that it was during a go at college, but those days are hazy.
i guess i'm curious as to why you would deem such a phase as "unfortunate".
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Some people here at work say 'bad chicken' to refer to something with approval. That's unfortunate.
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I've been known to refer to ill-advised behaviors as "a chump's game", and occasionally call people "ya mooks".
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I refer to bad things as being a "mug's game."
And I often use the phrase (for anything past its prime or no longer "cool" - like the expression "talk to the hand") "My god man! That went out with button shoes!"
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I've been known to acknowledge something of worth as "the cat's pajamas."
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My brother and I used to say "cool beans" all the time. It was an '80s thing. You wouldn't understand.
I often describe cool things as "neat" or "groovy". I'm a particular fan of "rockin'," as well. I have a friend from the beach who says "stoked," and for a time (when we lived together) I used it too.
When it comes to pseudo-expletives I'm likely to be caught saying "cripes," or "Holy Cow" (the way I say it, it comes out "holicow"). Also in my vernacular: holy crap, crapity, crapioca pudding (thanks to Pedro's sister), holy smokes and -- more recently -- jehosephat. (Thank you, Lije Baley.) Also, since I'm one of the nine individuals left in America who is mildly offended by the use of the Lord's name as an expletive, I use "Oh my goodness" or "Oh, mercy" in good midwestern form.
My mother says "jehosephat", as well as "holy Toledo," which is odd, since that's where we lived during the time I remember her using the phrase with any regularity.
I call people "dude" on a fairly regular basis. Pedro calls everyone "pal." We both use "buddy" on occasion. But I think the strangest thing -- and those of you who have met Pedro will know why -- is that I call my husband "baby doll." (He calls me "the dollfaced avenger," which stemmed from calling me "dollface," a la Humphrey Bogart.)
Basically, then, if it's coming out of my mouth, it's no longer cool.
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I've always liked "solid" as an affirmative, as well.
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I tend to use Criminy and Criminently. Also, "Why I otta......"
A lady I worked with in Chicago used to use the term "you really put your foot in it" when something tasted really good. I assume the term derives from kicking something but it sounds like dipping your foot in the pot, which makes no sense. To me, anyhow.
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OK JL, you can not comment on the saying of dude in this thread.
It being what I say day in day out!
Everyone, I call dude. I also often as a term of disapproval use the long drawn out 'Duuuuuuuuuude'.
If it's really gnarly, I'll say 'Duuuuhuhuhuhude' too.
But in many ways I am an aging hippy.
Cool beans is just unfortunate 'cause it's horrible. It's as bad as 'cheap as chips' which he used for a few days 'til I tried to gnaw his foot off.
I am trying desperately to think of others I use all the time, but I think I really do use outdate speech too often! Most of it from the mid to late 80's, when I grabbed most of my vernacular.
Oh yea, and I use 'Why I oughta...' a lot too. I've used it on here before even!
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I've always liked "solid" as an affirmative, as well.
"Solid" is used a joke within my group of friends, in sly insult to an acquaintance who thought she knew about music since her ex-boyfriend was in a bad, casually described a song as posessing "a solid bassline".
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I've been known to refer to ill-advised behaviors as "a chump's game", and occasionally call people "ya mooks".
I should probably pick up "ya mooks." It would be kinder than a lot of things that occur to me in the presence of mooks.
I'm not entirely sure where to start on my vast repetoire of strange ways of expressing an object's goodness. "Solid!" occurs a lot, and I have a rather sad fondness for "keen gear" and "awesome." I went through a prolonged "nifty/spiffy" phase in seventh grade, but I think that's past now. I've also picked up "savage tech," which as far as I know is about a semester old and restricted heavily to my campus, with a certain level of justice.
Sadly, my average speech in the vulgate tends towards mid-'90's-slackerspeak more heavily than I'd like. I have repeatedly used "harsh realm" unironically, and "dude" seems stubbornly attached.
As a wee kid, I was taught by my mother to say "oh, p'shaw!" to people who got on my last nerve, presumably to keep me polite. (This didn't keep me from getting a time-out at school when my teacher was convinced it was some form of obscure cursing, but hey, it's the thought that counts, right?)
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I am often cross, and on the rare occassions when I am feeling cross but am trying not to swear, I will say "Oh bother" or "for pete's sake".
Old but bad expressions: My spouse persists in calling blue jeans 'dungarees' no matter how often I tell him how badly this dates him. He will say he is going out to buy new dungarees and I will say good luck, because NO ONE MAKES DUNGAREES ANYMORE.
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When I'm done half-assing a job, I often say "Close enough for government work." I have no idea whether it's old or not, but I'm the only person under 60 I've ever heard use it.
And I do enjoy calling my SO my "gentleman caller." And, on occasion, I am his "lady friend."
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i use dude far too much.
nifty, niftykeen, and niftykeencool in order of commoness.
i've been trying to use "my goodness" and "oh my goodness" in place of offending She Who i Wish Not to Offend with my utter and near constant blasphemy.
anyone familiar with "jeeze-um-crow"? i've only ever heard it in northern new hampshire.
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I also attach <adj> + monkey to just about damn-all. But I figure that's just me being weird.
Usage example?
Like, "Your new car is fine monkey!"?
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I use the adjective monkey for various things. He's a good friend.
I occasionally use walrus' in the same manner.
I realised another I do but again, forgot it. Which is frustrating.
Oh yes, occasionally I have been known, in a joking manner, to say 'That'll be keen'!
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Trunk Monkey (http://homepage.mac.com/jpbarr/iMovieTheater8.html)
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When I'm done half-assing a job, I often say "Close enough for government work." I have no idea whether it's old or not, but I'm the only person under 60 I've ever heard use it.
i picked that up from my dad, but then he's older than dirt.
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I described my corpulence recently as such: "I'm developing a serious case of Dunlop." Those past a certain milestone in chronology knew to what I alluded; others my own age looked confused and frightened, not unlike Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. I was asked, bluntly, "What the hell's dunlop?"
"Of course," I said, "it's when your belly dun lop over your belt."
Who hasn't heard this reference? Jiminy!
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When I'm done half-assing a job, I often say "Close enough for government work." I have no idea whether it's old or not, but I'm the only person under 60 I've ever heard use it.
My HS physics teacher used this all the time when rounding things to only a couple decimal places. I've picked it up.
And of course, "Simultaneous Navy/Army Fuck Up"
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I learned that one as Situation Normal, All Fouled Up.
It still doesn't get the usage it deserves.
That's what I learnt it as. Well, fucked up. Like Fubar which I had to persuade someone wasn't German for anything!
I said snafu today actually. Great wordal fun.
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And of course, "Simultaneous Navy/Army Fuck Up"
I learned that one as Situation Normal, All Fouled Up.
It still doesn't get the usage it deserves.
I'm pretty sure I learned my version in Slaughterhouse Five
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I think the word SNAFU preceeded the acronym for it.
Choop, when you referred to your corpulence as a dunlop I thought you were simply putting a brand name on your spare tire of a gut.
~Paul
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I said that a girl was "the bee's knees" the other day, and use the phrase "the living end" quite often.
Golly, this sure is swell!
Holy Hanna! I was going to post the exact same : "the bee's knees," the living end," but also "the cat's meow."
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(http://www.thosewerethedays.de/items/gameboxes/intellivision/mattel_snafu.jpg)
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ok, I use solid and rad a lot. and it's not really old, but I throw the word "money" around all the time, meaning something really good, as used in one of my favorite movies, Swingers.
Also, I use "consarnate" and "reckon" ALL the time.
Here's an example:
Consarnate, the sun's up.... Well, I reckon I should get to bed
nighty night
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Also, I use "consarnate" and "reckon" ALL the time.
Maybe it's a UK thing but reckon never really went out of common usage. Which is good.
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it's not really old, but I throw the word "money" around all the time, meaning something really good, as used in one of my favorite movies, Swingers.
That's a good reason not to use it. Every pinhead that saw "Swingers" was using the word "money" to describe something good back in, oh, say 1996.
You're just eight years behind the curve.
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My 2nd Year roommate once used the word "money" 31 times in a single day. Thus I cannot stand it as an adjective anymore.
Oh, and Merriam-Webster listed the "All Fucked Up" origins of snafu. Apparently the pussified "fouled" version came later.
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My 2nd Year roommate once used the word "money" 31 times in a single day. Thus I cannot stand it as an adjective anymore.
This is humbling and somehow terrifying. Was he intentionally trying to destroy the meaning of the word, or was he just that odd?
If any swing movie should really inspire slang, it's "Swing Kids." I should go find someone I can call 'Django-Man.'
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He was one of the social chameleons who adopts every trend in attempt to fit in. "Money" was just the hip new slang so he felt compelled to use it. He was also rushing for DU.
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Jeezly crow. I threw up in my mouth. For fuck's sake. And, from the fiancee, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, sacred heart (with an accent).
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I threw up in my mouth.
I had a friend who, when very excited, would scream "That's AWESOME!" And then, in a tiny, shy voice, he'd say, "I peed a little."
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I used to like "I wet 'em!", to be directed in a derisive, vaguely ventriloquic fashion at a particularly wussy television character.
On the subject of Lord's name in vain: I used "Jesus Haploid Christ!" a lot in middle school, when my smartass circuitry was about at high. I should start doing that again.
Also from eighth grade: "Oh boy! Sleep! That's where I'm a Viking!"
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Also from eighth grade: "Oh boy! Sleep! That's where I'm a Viking!"
Good quote, but not in keeping with the topic. Most likely everyone on this board has a passel of favorite Simpsons quotes.
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Also from eighth grade: "Oh boy! Sleep! That's where I'm a Viking!"
Good quote, but not in keeping with the topic. Most likely everyone on this board has a passel of favorite Simpsons quotes.
Well, yes, fair enough. I was only noting that this particular phrase is more important to me in the context of nostalgia than as a phrase in and of itself, albeit it is a good phrase; nonetheless, its primary value in my life at the moment is that it was roaringly popular when I was 14 and is thus amusingly antiquated now.
Back on topic: "peckish."
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Oh, I say 'peckish' so much that I didn't even think of it in this context.
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I sometimes say "Shit the Bed!" to express dismay. I also use peckish.
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I'm trying to get us as a society to un-Disneyfy "built like a brick shithouse"
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I'm trying to get us as a society to un-Disneyfy "built like a brick shithouse"
Hold up, what did Disney do to that fine and useful expression?
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Oh, I say 'peckish' so much that I didn't even think of it in this context.
I only thought of it because I continue to befuddle my mother by using it. I think she expects me to announce my conquest of India, or something.
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I only thought of it because I continue to befuddle my mother by using it. I think she expects me to announce my conquest of India, or something.
Speaking of which, my best friend that is a girl, who is Indian, thinks we should make a porn where I'm wearing a pith helmet, khakis, a handlebar moustache and a monocle, and she's wearing a sari, and I'm bringing the raj into the deepest, darkest parts of India.
IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
I now restore the thread by revealing that I often say, Jeez o pete.
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I'm trying to get us as a society to un-Disneyfy "built like a brick shithouse"
Hold up, what did Disney do to that fine and useful expression?
Disneyfy here just means something that is unnecessarily toned down*. I've had people question why I added such a vulgarity to a normal expression.
*see also our discussion on the f in "snafu"
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I'm trying to get us as a society to un-Disneyfy "built like a brick shithouse"
Hold up, what did Disney do to that fine and useful expression?
Disneyfy here just means something that is unnecessarily toned down*. I've had people question why I added such a vulgarity to a normal expression.
*see also our discussion on the f in "snafu"
Do you blame the Commodores for that?
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Well this is a fine pickle we've gotten ourselves into.
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Well this is a fine pickle we've gotten ourselves into.
That pickle is in a kettle of giraffe, inside a barrel of monkeys.
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Well there's no reason for someone to get on their high hoss about that.
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Well there's no reason for someone to get on their high hoss about that.
STOP IT. ALL OF YOU, JUST STOP IT! YOU MAKE MY BRAIN HURT.
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Now don't get your knickers in a twist.
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This hot weather gives me the horribles.
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There's no need to get all het up, Bozack.
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You folks work on me just like a tonic.
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In this thread wombat has posts like Heinz has pickles.
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I think I'm going to start saying "I'm a little porkish" when I'm hungry to knock a chunk off someone.
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Sometimes I wonder if y'all are a few tacos short of a combination plate.
And when it's stinkin' hot, I get the horribles, too; nonetheless, I'm really starting to get screaming fantods about this snow.
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Your mother wears army boots.
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GREAT GOOGLY-MOOGLY!
Alternately, Great Caesar's Ghost! or my favorite variation, Great Shades of Elvis!
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I have used "Great Scott!" wholly without irony or premeditation.
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ahh. Colorful expressions.
Let me preface this with a caveat: I have a foul mouth (more backstory is here (http://japhy-.livejournal.com/2004/03/25/).)
My all-time favorite phrase is, "For fuck's sake!"
If I'm in the company of children, or if I'm at work, my favorite phrase is, "Crikey!" said in a really bad Liverpudlian accent.
Some newer phrases that I have co-opted from Halo2 and such creative genius as Red Versus Blue (http://www.redvsblue.com) is, "team-killing fucktard."
Heh...another of my favorite phrases, "I'm gonna peg you into submission" comes from my favorite Kiwi. I have a New Zealander friend, Tony, who is awesome. He's tall and ripped, and sexy as hell (ex-military, volunteer firefighter, carpenter, runs his family's dairy farm, etc.). He is also gay, but that doesn't mean I can't admire his sexxahness.
Anyhow, last summer he was hanging out with me, my fiance, and our mutual friends, Evan & Jessica. The guys were doing some maintenance on their cars. My fiance was having some difficulty with his Toyota, and he yelled something to the effect of, "You cocksucking bitch!" at it.
Tony stopped. Looking at my fiance, he said, "Hey now, you've not only insulted me, you've also insulted Linne and Jess. You'd better watch it, boy, before I buttfuck you into submission."
Heh. The look on my fiance's face was priceless. In the spirit of Dan Savage's article on pegging, I have co-opted Tony's phrase and I regularly threaten to sodomize men who piss me off, usually with a strap-on (aka, "pegging") or whatever is at hand. ;) Hee!
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Linnea rambled on and on and on...:
blah blah blah [sic]
Ahem.
None of them are "old but good" expressions. You've completely missed the point of the thread.
You lose five points from your "coolness" scorecard.
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I thought she was funny. And I can think about her with a strap-on, which is just a huge bonus.
Also, on-topic: I have a friend who still calls people variations of the word 'Dil'
as in SHUT UP DILWad or SHUT UP you DIL! That's some archaic usage if you ask me. A fun sub-thread to this might be Phrases we don't use any more that sound really stupid now.
Like when I was in Elementary School and we used to tell each other to Sit On It. And Up Your Nose with a Rubber Hose.
My 5 year old daughter spontaneously breaks into "So, So, suck your toe, all the way to Mexico; While you're there, eat a pear, eat a pair of Underwear!"
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GREAT GOOGLY-MOOGLY!
Alternately, Great Caesar's Ghost! or my favorite variation, Great Shades of Elvis!
I've always been partial to Great Googly-Moogly, but I think I like Great Shades of Elvis even better.
Off topic, I always wanted to get shirts or bumper stickers printed that said "the four Elvii of the apocalypse" and had pics of Presley, Costello, Stojko, and Grbac. Now the last two are getting sort of obscure . . . if they weren't too obscure before. And preemptively, Elvii may not be the correct declination of whatever the word actually would be in Latin or whatever, but it's funnier that way, which trumps everything.
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Come on. Who doesn't remember Rich Hall and his Sniglet fame from the '80s? I'd say that's a pretty fuck*ng textbook example of an "Old But Good" expression. Pegging someone into submission is a pretty antiquated concept. Dan Savage, with the help of his readers, just coined a Sniglet (http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci506044,00.html) in its honor.
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Soory, but D. Savage = cool. R. Hall = dork. No connection there, though I like the concept and expression Pegging. Seriously, though, if there's any value to the opinion of the person who actually started this topic, I was thinking of expressions from before the particular expresser was born, and if possible 50 - 100 years before the expresser was born, in general. Not that being off topic is bad, but for what it's worth, etc, etc.
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Oooh! I just remembered one that a friend's grandmother used to say.
"Heavens to Betsy and Wild hosss' Buns!"
I swear, it was a single expression. And, for some reason, I always imagined it Initial Capped.
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Heh. It's funny how the pendulum swings between eras. In our "po-mo, post-industrialist" society, the attenuation of meaning seems to have defined our entire existence. We've got a commercialized zeitgeist, if you will, something that has raided the past and laquered it until it's become sanitized and commercially-sanctioned. This in and of itself is NOT a new idea--volumes have been written about this search for meaning. Going back to Achewood (http://www.achewood.com/raysplace.php?date=02162004&allnav=), we'e pretty much recycled all that we can. Finding new meaning in phrases like, "Don't be a square" ('50s beatnik slang recycled by Tarantino in the early '90s) is fine and all, but it seems like we've got to start digging further and further in order to find something that seems fresh and original.
Yeah, the whole “What Would Jesus Do” spin-offs are kind of tired at this point. I wouldn’t want to be thought of as a guy who used old ideas to promote himself.
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We've got a commercialized zeitgeist, if you will
I won't.
And you lose another 3 points for shoehorning the word "zeitgeist" into your post.
We get it. You're smart. Let's move on.
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I'm sorry, jough.
ITT we chat about old-but-good expressions. Discuss.
(P.S. it was actually a crowbar, not a shoehorn.)
*huuuugs!*
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I don't know what ITT stands for, and I don't want to. No more of that, please.
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Sorry, I guess none of you guys are goons...?
Anyhow, ITT just means, "In This Thread".
I will refrain from using it if it bothers you, however.
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ITY IDWTK. AYAC SIOK. NM.
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My grandma seems to have difficulty making it through an entire week without using "piss like a racehoss" and/or "tit in a wringer" so I've picked up both of those.
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My grandma seems to have difficulty making it through an entire week without using "piss like a racehoss" and/or "tit in a wringer" so I've picked up both of those.
I like her - does she smoke cigars, drink whiskey, play pool, and spit?
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My grandma seems to have difficulty making it through an entire week without using "piss like a racehoss" and/or "tit in a wringer" so I've picked up both of those.
Wow, and I thought the time as a kid that my father introduced me to the phrase "snot locker" and I used it incessantly for three weeks was bad.
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That's one sexy x.
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Has anyone already said that we're all over this topic like a cheap suit? I can't believe it's gone to four pages. I love us.
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We're on this topic like white on rice.
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My grandma seems to have difficulty making it through an entire week without using "piss like a racehoss" and/or "tit in a wringer" so I've picked up both of those.
Wow, and I thought the time as a kid that my father introduced me to the phrase "snot locker" and I used it incessantly for three weeks was bad.
My dad was constantly telling me to "blow that snot locker!" And my best friend's dad would say, "you think you're hot snot on a silver platter but you're just a cold booger on a paper plate."
Has anyone already said that we're all over this topic like a cheap suit? I can't believe it's gone to four pages. I love us.
No, but I said you were all over this thread like Heinz has pickles.
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I, personally, like to think that we are all over this like stink on shit.
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It's quite hot out today and I'm sweating like a fat man at a barn dance.
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A friend of mine and I did a good line in erally tasteless, satirical sweating analogies.
I don't think I'm even going to go there though.