your own quirky expressions

So I've been thinking a lot about how we coin phrases and expressions that then get accepted into our group lingo (such as insensitive clod, or frum, or Murray's people, etc). Are there any weird expressions you share with other people that you'd like to make readily available for the rest of the community to use?

I want to share "Boba Fett". It's usually chanted in a whiny tone and means "skip to the good part".

The expression was coined after a specifically painful viewing of the Star Wars Christmas Special with George and MC at an Ottawa bar back in... 1998 or early 1999. I still use it, although I rarely think about where it comes from.

A few of my friends have picked up on "To quote Abraham Lincoln.." which is my polite way of saying " Fuck 'em!" I once said to a woman, "To quote Abraham Lincoln, 'Fuck em!" She said "Did he really say that?" to which I replied, "yeah, it's the last line of the Gettysburg Address." There are some truly special people in this world....

Ooh, that one works as a complement to YKWAS, or, You Know What Adam (Hartfield) Says. Which is also "Fuck em!"

Yes, it's nice, but YKWIS.

The only thing besides that one listed above that I can think of is "horfulous" which means to cause one to horf (barf).

You could ACTUALLY quote our moronic president and say:

"Fuck Saddam, We're taking him out!"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2835.htm

Hee. Some of GWB's quotes are quite universal.

One of my cow orkers really could say "I'm the master of low expectations" ;) *hides*

kenny baker!

:D

�-= george =-

dude! do you still have the tape you won that night for answering the kenny question right?

unfortunately, no.� the tape was voodoo lounge by the rolling stones or something.� i listened to it twice, and then on the bus ride back home, it got lifted with my walkman while i was asleep.� all i had to remember it by was the case, and i think it's packed away somewhere since i never throw anything away ... (:

�-= george =-

Well it is funny. Apparently saying that something is a "no brainer" is some kind of Michigan or midwestern expression, because we've found lots of people around the country who have never heard this even though around here it seems to be in general use.

Also, am I dreaming this, or did we determine a while back that "earwormed" has fruhead origins?

actually, I'm not sure how it arrived in fruhead-dom.

but there is a known german term

"Ohrworm"

it means earworm and is indeed the word for a song that gets in your head.

the first time someone used it with me, I freaked out a little. well, not freaked out, I was just very stunned and then very excited. :)

I have a feeling our "earworm" migrated somehow from that, as it is not a well known term back home, as is a well known term here.

cool, hey.

You're absolutely right. Look here.

there is Wall evidence of me nearly freaking out when I heard the word 'earworm' used by the morning radio guys.� :)� I thought to myself, "Cool!� A fruhead word is makin' it mainstream"

Well, it's on Ohio too, so it's at least spread through more of the eastern midwest.

I thought that earworm was a fr�head originated phrase. And I used that in a folklore paper last year too ;-) I certiantly heard it around here before I did anywhere else. My memory of its origin was that it came from the worms from Wrath of Kahn.

Naw, definitely not just midwestern... I've heard that my whole life. :)

The Cartoon Network's Adult Swim ads used "earworm" during Sunday's episode of Home Movies, about the dreaded Septopus. Not a great episode, but they were right about the song.

Fartknocker.

"What's up?" "Waffles."

If you look at my profile pics, you will see a picture of my friends from nerd camp in the dining hall at Hamilton College. The ceiling of said dining hall, and of several other buildings on campus, looks like a giant concrete waffle. Hence, when you look up, what you see is waffles.

I say "Huzzah" a lot.

This is from a comic that my friend Krissy showed me and some friends some years ago where one line was "I grab the gem, huzzah!" I completely forget what it was the punchline to.

i have way .. way ... way too many quirky expressions.� most of them are stupid.

pimp pimp hooray
yes indeedy, feed the needy
jeah jeah
aww jeah
bring it
i'll hit you so hard, i kill your whole family
do not make me come over there (said from two feet away)

almost all of them are borrowed.� which makes them even worse. (:

�-= george =-

liekomgTOTALLY.

Terrible how your�aww jeah has actually become part of my vocabulary... in person and in typing. Crazy.

I have several that have spread to other people as well.

"This rocks the government center "(as opposed to rocking the casbah.� it comes from a jonathan richman song.

"So's your mom."� I did not coin this but my friends and I say it all the time. Either that or "Miriam's mom."

Whenever something says anything odd, it's customary to add on to it "at the Robert E. Cook Honors College."� or . . ."dot com."� or both.

Do you go to Indiana University of Pennsylvania, then?� I was in the class of 2000 (the first one) at the Honors College.

no way! really???� I DO go to IUP!� Sweet mother, small world.� I'm in the class of 2005.� What are you up to now?� Did you hear Bob Cook lost all his money? Rick is still creepy as ever.

HE said.. "You can't do that"

*I* said "yes, I can."

"Why?"

"Cause I've got Capitol Knockers"��� [see "Smashing Pumpkins"]

I also don't describe myself as *weird*. but i'm *normally challenged*

> "Cause I've got Capitol Knockers"��� [see "Smashing Pumpkins"]

Smashing pumpkins?� Eh?� I tried a search for Smashing Pumpkins and still am trying to decipher

First I heard the expression it was on the Simpsons, though I'm not claiming it was the first utterance of the phrase.� Just trying to find how it relates to SP :)

I have been known to shout "Crumbs!" in times of chagrin.� Also, 'having grilled cheese in one's pants,' and all things 'neuro' come from me, as far as I can remember.

And of course, there's DWD, but that's more of a spelling issue.

dwd. "grilled cheese" comes from ME.

remember? there was that picture? of that guy? and i was all like, "he looks like he should be saying, 'i have grilled cheese in my pants'"? dwd. dwd. DWD.

i'm also responsible for, "i'll get you a bowl of asparagus...get you a bowl of asparagus FOREVER!"

and gordon and i are to blame for "bring me a harem, bring me a bagel," "it's so hard to be me; i think i'll write a six-song ep about it," and "adam busch has a band?!"

You're right about the grilled cheese! But I was the one who was getting a bowl of asparagus...FOREVER! And you also did the one about the bucket of dinosaurs, meaning ice cream.

no, you asked me to get the bowl of asparagus for you, and that's what you said. it's in my journal. i have proof. PROOF, I TELL YOU!!!!

and "bucket of dinosaurs" is at least partially your fault, because you gave me that recording of barry manilow singing the kfc jingle.

i need to make an icon that says "goodbye, ho-hum!"

Fine be that way, take all of mine.

Well not all of them.

I think I should become...barbeque sauce.

And I often bracket a compliment with, "Have I told you [insert nice thing] today?"

ahahaha. no one's going to take the bbq sauce thing away from you. that's all yours.

i think the "ahoy!" thing fits here, too. dude! ahoy! ahoy ahoy ahoy! *ahem*

How about alternate lyrics to "Boob Fairy."

Actually, I'm pretty sure that phish tapers/fans came up with dwd..... it's tough to always be typing out Down With Disease

damn skippy!

Well, it's not weird on a global scale, but between a lot of Brittish TV, (and, I'll admit it, Buffy), "Bugger" is part of my regular language. It comes in handy when I drop something at work, and gets me a weird look when people catch it ;-D

I also tend to say "I dunno" far too much.

you say I dunno? what?!

I didn't know I had quirky expressions until the most recent moves.
"This is the exactly right thing!" and� "Meh!" are the most common.

you have more than that. i like the whiny "ohhhh mannnn!" or "i'm not tired" (as you fall over). there are more but i'll spare you

i've got a fair few myself:

dude

fuck a duck

that's fan-fucking-tastic

wowie!

for real

no worries

it's all good

(while wearing pirate gangsta bandana) "do you like my hat? i'm a pirate gangsta. yo yo yo, arrrrrrrrrrrrr"

let's play the putaway game

how can you disagree? they're fucking isomorphic! (usually used with other math geeks)

(tech support days:)

yeah, there's a nut lose on that fucking keyboard

no, really, i set his password to ID-TEN-T

definately got some PEBKAC issues there

i think his firmware needs to be updated (refering to a person calling)

maybe if we ignore them, they'll just go away (said helplessly to a coworker)

(herb related)

want to go poke some smot?

safety meeting!

.oO i've got that cheba cheba vibe Oo.

(show related)

he really was freaked out, he's got the johnny knoxville laugh going

well did you keep it? ... you bastid

sodomize me, mister! (said in a schoolgirl voice, from max hardcore video)


...

i'm just going to stop, i could do this all day ;)

I just coined this one. Whenver anyone approaches me and says, "What's up?" my response is, "....the jig."

Get it? cause the jig is up!

that would fall under this category, too, wouldn't it?

How could I forget Batnose? Leah started that.

Which reminds me of the hand gestures.

Shelly invented the Batnose salute }{

Then there is eating sausages other ones that I can't go into more detail about.

I have a tendency to say "all kinds of" to indicate... well, lots of.

Such as: "I'm all kinds of happy" or "That's all kinds of bizarre" or "I'm all kinds of confused."

One person that I know picked it up from me. Don't know where I got it from

I have this irritating habit�of respond to many things with BOOYA! Either a greeting or a normal question. People hate it, and then they laugh because it's usually so unexpected.
BOOYA!

I often use the phrases "woot", "rox0rz", and "wiggity wack"...

I also respond in *coos* on occsaion.

"dude. brutal"

"wrong and bad and bad and wrong"

"do it to it!" followed by *buamchicabuambuam*

"dude, the juice is always worth the squeeeeze"

"don't make me hurt you.... cause I'd like it"

"you know what would make this better? ... if I had a club foot."

"i'm hungry" followed up by someone else with "keee keee" we have no idea why.

when someone wants to know where anything is, I say, "I ate it" or "up your butt?" yeah I'm immature.

ah yes. "I ate it" as well.

I also often use "up your butt" when people ask where something is.

I used to work with this Japanese guy.... and that's what he'd say any time anyone asked where ANYTHING was.

"hey joon! Any idea where my slicer is?" "Up your ASS?!"

*rolls eyes*
Funny in hindsight... but... at the time it got kinda annoying.

"merf" is so totally mine. depending on the tone it is used in, can mean a great many things

and then there's "ro-a", usually used to express amazement, often sarcastic.

"say it like you mean it" stolen from George

"yes, and all kinds of purple" ... I don't remember where that's from...

...I can't think of others right now :D

Hee. Merf was the first thing I learned at fhdc. Word.

oh.

and adding "in bed" after just about anything.

Especially after reading your fortune cookie insert. :-)

For some reason, a lot of people pick up on phrases I have. It really scares me, but its funny.

Yay for [insert thing here] - It used to be yay for piracy! but I've started to change it. The other day I showed my friend a comic I drew. About burning rubber duckies. She said "Yay for rubber duckies! Yay for ninjas! Yay for piracy!" (I dressed as a ninja pirate the other day.)

Mmm... cram jam - My friend was talking about a store being cram jam packed. Just out of habit I said 'mmm... cram jam.' and now the lot of them do it.

Yarr or grr or something with an r in it. - My r's sound ridiculous. If I say car, it sounds like carrrr. So everyone repeats it. I'd damn it if it weren't on of the only bits left of my newfie accent.

Glorify the mangle cake - ... that just involves glorify being such a glorious word, and the mangle cake requireing glorifying.

Jesus, there are probally a ton more, and I just don't notice them. XD

"Jesus H. Christ" I have no idea where the h comes from.

And "Christ on a stick" which I think is somehow a corruption of "Christ on a crutch"

i remember using the old Dead Milkmen staple "Jumping Jesus on a pogo-stick!" for a while ... didn't make me very popular in high school. :D

�-= george =-

someone on journalfen had a christ on a pogo-stick icon. it was teh beautiful.

!!!

so teh cool.

Yeah, what about everyone inserting the random "teh"? ;o) I do it too. It's teh awesomes.

Oh, there's one of mine I picked up from Strong Bad. Pluralizing everything. Awesomes. Childrens. It can also have a Z, but that comes before a purposeful misspelling as in, "Norg is teh ROOLZ!"

I also have been using the word "outtie" when I want to leave, but I have to compare it. Always with the metaphors, I am. Anyway, examples are "I am outtie like a belly button" or "I am outtie like Ellen D" or (personal fave) "I am outtie like a straight man in a gay bar."

The end. :o)

The outtie thing always bothers me, because I remember a movie (I think 'Reality Bites')quote where a character (I think played by Evan Dando) said, "I'm Audi 5000."� This would have been 1991 or 2, so it was right when the outtie thing started up.� I've always thought of it as a misquote.

JournalFen folks have the bestest icons. Sometimes I go to Fandom Wank just to laugh at the icons. :)

they really do. i lurk there and dl_anon. between the icons and teh crazy, that's my soap opera.

and here's the pogo icon ;)

My friend Raev has posted a few good wanks over there, and when she does I usually un-lurk to mock with her. ;)

Why in the hell do you think they call it a burrow owl anyway?

I wonder if this is a midwest thing, I've heard "Christ on a stick" (more often, "Jesus H. Christ on a stick"), but I don't know if I've ever head "Christ on a crutch".

Christ on a crooked crutch.

Oh, and you know what the H stands for right?

Hallmark, because God cared enough to send the very best.

Jesus H. Christ is a cool one.

H. = Holy Ghost :)

jesus H christmas!!

and talcott, I say christ on a crutch kind of often, where have you been?�

H. Doesn't really stand for holy ghost does it?� 'Cause.. dude.. that sucks. I thought it would be something better than that.

it's at least 20 years old, as it was in The Blues Brothers:

"YES! Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ, I have SEEN the LIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!"

-- Pauley

It is a lot older than that. It has been around since I was a kid and I think long before that.

Yep. I got it from my dad - and he got it from U.S. soldiers right after WWII. (No I'm not kidding:)

That reminds me of something i was just talking about with my sisters. If someone just says "The War" it means WWII. Any other war needs a name. None of us were alive then but our father fought in it and we heard the stories all the time.

For me "the war" tends to blend with context. The age of the person saying it leads me to my assumption of what they mean. It's almost always accurate. To every generation/age bracket there seems to be a "war".� I see a guy my dad's age say it an I assume VietNam. My grandpa's age? WWII. 30s? Gulf War.� Gordon's age? Civil War.

You mean the English Civil War right? I was a roundhead.

I have a magnetic personality. Some of my best friends are filing cabinets.

(There's a foof followup...)

I say "indeed" and "ah. I see." quite a bit. Indeed.

When something crappy happens, I tend to say "Schei�e" a lot to make it sound a bit cleaner. :)

One thing that my friend has ingrained in my head is when someone (usually a friend) says "Metuchen," I think and sometimes respond with "Me-Touch-en," followed by a little finger poke on the shoulder.

When something crappy happens, I tend to say "Schei�e" a lot to make it sound a bit cleaner. :)

I find it funny that the same rule sort of applies here in Germany,

that rule being: shit is a harsher word than Schei�e.

in english movies, which are almost always dubbed, they'll not dub "shit" but leave, or have the new voice read "shit" instead of translating it because it sounds harsher.

This is *so* funny. I've always preferred the English word...

Ellen and I have been saying "Wordy McWord with fries on top" quite a bit lately.

And calling annoying people "stupid stupid rat creatures" (thanks to the comic book series "Bone")

A guy I knew in high school used to say "What the junk?" all the time (kind of in the sense of "what the heck?") and I started using it again recently. it usually illicits strange looks

"That works"
I think I say this more often than anything other than "Idunno", but I didn't even think about it until I heard someone else say it today.

Similarly, I say "that too."

I always say "No worries!" I think I picked it up in Australia... Anyways, I always end up sounding like the crocidle hunter. yeah... random stuff there...

My dad watched too much crocodile hunter once and said "Crickey" when he got cut off in traffic.� very influential, those aussies

someone's name, i say... "what's her butt?"

ex. "i was talking to uh uh.... oh... what's her butt, the other day and she was telling me..."

I've heard worse... my friend Mike has me saying "what's his nuts" in similar situations. :-P

-- Pauley

Mine would have to be moohoohaha and Sarah forgot her newest goooo
Desi

From 'Nuf Sed rehearsals,

things that are strange are always "kinda shifty"

and to make something emphatic, you add "whop-BAH!" onto the end of it. (it's from a tune we're singing.)

My friend and I had just seen Full Metal Jacket, and outed with "Do I have to stick my pecker in your ear and SHAG some sense into you boy?!?"

I have no idea if it's his or not, but every now and then we still catch ourselves saying it.

Also, "I'll stab you" has worked our way in to conversation...anywhere.

"Could you get me a beer?....or I'll stab you?"
"I got the new album...or I'll stab you"

Countless Simpsons quotes have made it into my everyday dialogue. To name 3 as they pop into my head

"Now who's the dean?"
"Let us celebrate our new arrangement with the adding of chocolate to milk"
"It's going to take a lot of fireworks to clean this place up."

usefully,
Dave

I was pouring water for the cat, and realized I was singing, "Her name was Brita... she was a Brita". Which is something I do whenever I pull the Brita pitcher out of the fridge, as well as a bunch of other random times throughout the day.

Dave used to sing that to make fun of the way I pronounced words :D

heehee!
You give your cat brita water.

:)

My cats get water from the tap through the strap-on Pur filter. And they also get to drink their water out of a perpetually recycling fountain because they like to drink running water and I spoil my girls rotten. :)

I also use a Pur filter, more for the cats than for me.� Unfortunately, mine has an ongoing battle with giardia, which can be found in tap water.� Not only do I have to use the Pur, I have to use the Pur Ultimate. :-)

I tried giving my cats reverse osmosis water but they wouldn't touch it, they will only drink tap water.� That scares me.� Tap water has lead in it, I think...

half a baker's dozen of the other...

'slap me in footies and call me spanky'

I used this once as an exclamation of excited shock, and it's sort of just stuck around my vocabulary.�� I had an aunt who used to say 'Well dip me in tar and call me a fossil' for the same reason

gotta say that I'm reminded of Kryten from Red Dwarf:

Spin my nipple nuts and send me to Alaska! (season 8)