Sometimes I have a overwhelming desire to.......

[CanvasShoes]

.....moo as I'm coming off of the light rail with all of the other shuffling hurrying commuters!

I swear! If that isn't a MoooOOOOOOooooo moment, I don't know what is.

What, of life's little sillinesses (not a real word), strikes your fancy?

[Zebra]

When ever I see a short bald man, I want to slap his head like Benny Hill.

[madmonk28]

When I get on the DC Metro and it is filling up, I always sit with the person who is sitting on the outside, trying to preserve two seats for his/herself. It is a compulsion.

[GuanoLad]

When I shuffle about in a queue, I tend to think of this song, and want to sing it.

[cards]

So you know Dante?

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=237296

[Jenaroph]

Lately, when the Farmers Insurance commercial comes on either the TV or radio, I am compelled to sing along with the tagline.

"We are Farmers, bum badum bum bum bum bum!"

[Ludovic]

A mooooooment?

[Cat Whisperer]

When we go to some hot springs in the mountains, people have a tendency to wade in and out of the pool like they're slow zombies (the steam rising from the water helps with the effect). When Jim and I wade in and out, we tend to hold our arms up and say, "Brainnnnnnssssssssss...." as we go. I don't know what anyone else thinks, but it amuses us.

[NinetyWt]

My Mother had a thing she'd do in the car; when going over a bump or something similar she'd say "Wheeeeeee!".

So of course, I do it too. And when my kids were little, and I'd be driving them somewhere, we'd all say it at the same time: "Wheeeee!".

So here I was, riding with my 20-something son the other day, and he goes over a bump and he says - "Wheeeee!".

[Angel of Doubt]

When I see a farm truck carrying loads of cut and dried clover, alfalfa or the like, I have an overwhelming desire to pull up alongside and yell "Hey!"

[JimmyFlair]

Sometimes while selecting produce at the grocery store, I'll pick up a particular orange or tomato (but almost always an orange) that is just so right, so perfect, so uniquely made...

...To be hurled across the store like I'm an outfielder trying for home plate.

It's almost overwhelming. I've held back (so far), but I can't promise that at some point in the future, someone in the soup aisle will wonder where the hell this orange just came from.

Am I the only one?

[Bam Boo Gut]

Originally Posted by JimmyFlair

Am I the only one?

Nope, I chuck stuff at my daughter in the supermarket, loo rolls etc. Pretend I'm aiming for the trolly, but actually trying to get her in the head. We don't shop together much.

[JimmyFlair]

Originally Posted by Bam Boo Gut

Nope, I chuck stuff at my daughter in the supermarket, loo rolls etc. Pretend I'm aiming for the trolly, but actually trying to get her in the head. We don't shop together much.

Hmmm, let's hope that we're never in the same supermarket at the same time. It could get a little out of control.


INCOMING!

SPLAT!!!!

[Taomist]

I occasionally pass pastured sheep on the way to work.
I invariably call out, "SHEEEEEPS! HI SHEEEEEPS!!".
In my head, of course. Sometimes.
Carryover from driving from Chicago out west when we were kids, and did indeed moo at every cow we passed.

I have no idea how we made it alive. My folks could have EASILY ditched us anywhere along the way. :P

[Tracyfish]

Originally Posted by NinetyWt

My Mother had a thing she'd do in the car; when going over a bump or something similar she'd say "Wheeeeeee!".

So of course, I do it too. And when my kids were little, and I'd be driving them somewhere, we'd all say it at the same time: "Wheeeee!".

So here I was, riding with my 20-something son the other day, and he goes over a bump and he says - "Wheeeee!".

My mom had a thing she'd do in the car, too, that I think my grandma started. When we're driving under a bridge that has a train going across it, we put a finger to the roof of the car to hold up the roof. We know that nothing will happen if we don't do it, but it's our weird little tradition. I still do it even if I'm the only one in the car.

[LouisB]

Years ago and I mean lots of years ago, a friend of my sister's convinced me that if I held a button whenever I passed a cemetery I'd have good luck. I did it for years, to the utter bafflement of everyone who saw me do it. Now that I'm very old and my day to day garb is blue jeans and a tee shirt, I still feel a compulsion to hold a button when I pass a cemetery. I catch myself trying to find a button to hold and it worries me when I can't.

[Cat Whisperer]

Originally Posted by JimmyFlair

Sometimes while selecting produce at the grocery store, I'll pick up a particular orange or tomato (but almost always an orange) that is just so right, so perfect, so uniquely made...

...To be hurled across the store like I'm an outfielder trying for home plate.

It's almost overwhelming. I've held back (so far), but I can't promise that at some point in the future, someone in the soup aisle will wonder where the hell this orange just came from.

Am I the only one?

I flung some bananas at Safeway once - I was trying to pull some off the bunch, and they were on tighter than I expected; I gave them a good yank, and they went flying about 15 feet. My husband found it terribly entertaining (and it was one of the extremely few times he's seen me blush).

[dwyr]

See, I always felt more like a sheep when in a crowd. That's why I'd go "baaahhhh" whilst wandering around the store. Really annoyed my mother.

One of my brothers had his own little store game. He'd pick random stuff off the shelves and chuck them over his shoulder at brother number two thus forcing number two to make a sudden dive and catch the falling object. This went on for a while. Until the ketchup incident anyway.

Whenever I drive over one of those cables across the road that count the number of cars passing by I always get this terrific urge to back up and run over the thing about eleventy times. I actually did it once. So satisfying.

[CanvasShoes]

Originally Posted by cards

So you know Dante?

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=237296

Heee..


Thank you, I'd forgotten about that one. I guess I'm lucky though, most people here seem to be pretty polite with the whole thing. I've never seen very much out and out obvious stupidity.

The worst is the few times you get someone who doesn't understand about using an "inside" voice. And the occasional smelly vagrant type.

I just get tickled at the mass exodus at the end of the day. I'm at the second to last station, so during the morning commute, for some reason it's a pretty light attendance. It's the after work commute that is crowded as all get out.

[Zebra]

Originally Posted by NinetyWt

My Mother had a thing she'd do in the car; when going over a bump or something similar she'd say "Wheeeeeee!".

So of course, I do it too. And when my kids were little, and I'd be driving them somewhere, we'd all say it at the same time: "Wheeeee!".

So here I was, riding with my 20-something son the other day, and he goes over a bump and he says - "Wheeeee!".

Some family heirlooms really are priceless.

[kjbrasda]

I have to be careful after playing a lot of videogames. Especially after playing Katamari games, I have the intense urge to run things over with my car. I see orange cones on the side of the road and think "I could totally roll them up"

[tumbleddown]

Originally Posted by Taomist

I occasionally pass pastured sheep on the way to work.
I invariably call out, "SHEEEEEPS! HI SHEEEEEPS!!".

Whenever I pass sheep on a road trip, I yell -- out loud -- "Sheepies!!" Bovines in a field will be greeted with "moooooo cows!" These are holdovers from my misspent youth.

Did I mention that I usually take road trips alone?

[Ladymarmalade]

I would like to suck my thumb.

[Nightfall1]

Whenever my wife and I are driving in the country and see a young cow we say "Minnie Moo's, Minnie Moo's"

[CanvasShoes]

Originally Posted by Angel of Doubt

When I see a farm truck carrying loads of cut and dried clover, alfalfa or the like, I have an overwhelming desire to pull up alongside and yell "Hey!"

[CanvasShoes]

When I pull up to someplace, for the last time. Like back to the office for the weekend after being out in the field all day, or home after running around shopping the whole day. I often don't resist singing out this silliness! (It's from an old radio show, album from Wild Bill Hiccup). My mom said this all of the time when we were kids, and we'd just be getting back from someplace. So of course I tortured my kids with it, and many coworkers as well. (they must have gotten at least a chuckle, because I never ended up in a white coat)

BILL:
Well, here we are, it's the end of the ride
Pete and his gang are waitin' inside
Now here's my plan, be as quiet as a mouse
I'll sneak in, and you surround the house

ANNIE:
Here's your gun
PETE:
I don't need a gun
I'm gonna throw that gang out, one by one
ANNIE:
I hope you know what you're talking about
PETE:
You just count 'em as I throw 'em out

ANNIE: One!

PETE: Stop counting, that's me!

[panache45]

Originally Posted by CanvasShoes

.....moo as I'm coming off of the light rail with all of the other shuffling hurrying commuters!

I swear! If that isn't a MoooOOOOOOooooo moment, I don't know what is.

What, of life's little sillinesses (not a real word), strikes your fancy?

I have done this. Well actually it was BAA-A-A-A-A-A, as we always seemed like a flock of sheep.

[Superhal]

Whenever I see drywall, I want to throw pointy objects at it to see if they stick.

When I was teaching middle school kids, one corner of the room had 10+ pencils stuck in the ceiling in almost a perfect circle, and I thought that was the coolest thing ever.

[Anonymous Coward]

... drive through a cornfield. I don't know why as I know I'll likely get stuck and/or ruin my car, but every time I drive by a cornfield I want to pull into it and imagine I'll make a track of flattened corn like in the cartoons.

[Miss_Gnomer]

If I knew what sound rats made in mazes ... I'd do that.

But I'm more likely to baa in that situation ... herd of sheep up out of the train, up to our offices .. blurgh!

[Locrian]

When I'm a passenger in a car, I tend to say, "yellooooow" softly, when we approach a light. Usually this ends up with me calling it right a few times to force the driver to say, "STOP MAKING IT CHANGE TO YELLOW!!!"

And I do the "Moooo" moment whenever I leave a stadium in a crowd.

[Annie-Xmas]

Whenever a cell phones goes off with a little tune in public, I always want to do a little dance. Sometimes I do.

[EvilTOJ]

Every time I hear the Wilhelm Scream, I invariably say "Wilhelm Scream.". I can't not do it!

[senpai71]

Whenever I travel on Hwy 80 between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, every time I pass the exit for Loomis, I have to say (quietly if there are others in the car) "Miss...Miss...I need the loo, Miss". For those of you that are (or know), Brits, the loo is, of course, the toilet, and I guess this is what I used to say in class in elementary school...

[Bayard]

When I lived in New York, I also had the urge to moo when I was getting on and off the subway. If I was with my wife, I'd do it softly enough that (hopefully) only she could hear it.

There used to be a restaurant in St. Louis called Balaban's. They had a fiberglass guy out front with his hand out (see the picture at the top of this page). A friend of mine had the habit of giving the Balaban Man a coin every time he passed by. I'm not sure why. It just seemed like the thing to do. The friend moved out of the area, but I continued tipping the Balaban Man every time I passed him, until the restaurant closed down.

(I think they re-opened in the suburbs, but I don't know if the Balaban Man followed them.)

[janis_and_c0]

When I spot a car with one headlight, I always say pididdle. ALWAYS. even if I'm in the middle of a conversation.. "Oh, how in-piddidle-teresting.."

[Sunspace]

When I was a kid, and we were driving over a bridge, I would say "briiiiiiiiidge" for as long as the bridge lasted. Sometimes I still think it. What finally cured me of saying it out loud was when we went south on holiday and drove over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.

[ChordedZither]

Originally Posted by CanvasShoes

.....moo as I'm coming off of the light rail with all of the other shuffling hurrying commuters!

I once made the "mooo!" call while in line to leave an event at the Summer Olympics in Sydney. To my delight, the obviously international crowd (lots of different flags being carried or worn), many of whom probably could not have even spoken with one another, took up the refrain and the "moos" travelled up and down the line for several minutes.

[Moonlitherial]

Originally Posted by NinetyWt

My Mother had a thing she'd do in the car; when going over a bump or something similar she'd say "Wheeeeeee!".

So of course, I do it too. And when my kids were little, and I'd be driving them somewhere, we'd all say it at the same time: "Wheeeee!".

So here I was, riding with my 20-something son the other day, and he goes over a bump and he says - "Wheeeee!".

I just spent a week driving through Death Valley and the roads are very roller coastery, usually preceeded by signs that say "Dip" We spent the entire week yelling Wheeeeee! as we went over them. During a really intense section my friend actually threw his hands over his head

[Corner Case]

Whenever we go under a bridge or through a tunnel my son would say "Weeeee" so we took it up.

Whenever I pass the animals on a farm I'll wave. The kind of wave where the fingers wiggle up and down in a sine wave.

My wife will kiss her fingers and touch the ceiling in the car if she drives through an intersection and the light changes from yellow to red.

[Zsofia]

Originally Posted by kjbrasda

I have to be careful after playing a lot of videogames. Especially after playing Katamari games, I have the intense urge to run things over with my car. I see orange cones on the side of the road and think "I could totally roll them up"

I understand your impulse. Also when we were trapped inside the house for two days because of the snow and ice this January, all I did was play Red Dead Redemption. (My boyfriend discovered Minecraft.) I opened the door to let the dog go outside and saw a bird startle up into the air and my first reaction was to think "Shoot it! Shoot it!" Luckily, I was unarmed.

[kaylasdad99]

Originally Posted by ChordedZither

I once made the "mooo!" call while in line to leave an event at the Summer Olympics in Sydney. To my delight, the obviously international crowd (lots of different flags being carried or worn), many of whom probably could not have even spoken with one another, took up the refrain and the "moos" travelled up and down the line for several minutes.

Congratulations! That makes you the coolest person on the internet for the day.

When I'm in public and a cellphone goes off with a song as the ringtone, I wait until the person answers it, and then in the most affronted tones I can manage, I say: "HEY, I was listening to that!"

[carnut]

I have mooed many a time when trying to cram into the Metro after the F1 race in Montreal. I have also done the back-up "beep" when riding in the back of a pickup or flatbed truck when, of course, we start backing up. Usually several of us start doing it at once.

But the favorite urge I get is one I've never actually done, but have seen done. When going in the opposite direction (at speed), roll down the window and wave vigorously and smile at the crowd of cars sitting still, bumper-to-bumper, as they attempt to make the morning commute to the office.

[67java89]

When waiting at a redlight, my father in law used to say, "Red light green light orange and yellow, change right now for this good looking fellow." Now my husband and daughter do this when we are bored waiting for the light to change.

[Trans Fat Og]

Originally Posted by Zebra

When ever I see a short bald man, I want to slap his head like Benny Hill.

Take a bald man. He doesn't have to be short, just sitting down. I frequently have the thought to stand behind him, slowly palm the air just surrounding his chrome-dome, and chant "I seee alll in the crystal ballll..."

But that's just me.

[gnoitall]

Originally Posted by kjbrasda

I have to be careful after playing a lot of videogames. Especially after playing Katamari games, I have the intense urge to run things over with my car. I see orange cones on the side of the road and think "I could totally roll them up"

I think you're not the only one.

[Taomist]

Originally Posted by tumbleddown

Whenever I pass sheep on a road trip, I yell -- out loud -- "Sheepies!!" Bovines in a field will be greeted with "moooooo cows!" These are holdovers from my misspent youth.

Did I mention that I usually take road trips alone?

I drive about an hour and a half to/from work each day, mostly along agricultural farmland.

I passed sheeps today.

I 'sheeep!'d at them.

Yes, I do this when alone, lol.
Which is about 10 times a week.

[EvilTOJ]

Originally Posted by Sunspace

When I was a kid, and we were driving over a bridge, I would say "briiiiiiiiidge" for as long as the bridge lasted. Sometimes I still think it. What finally cured me of saying it out loud was when we went south on holiday and drove over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.

That reminds me, when I was a kid I used to hold my breath through tunnels. No reason, just because. That got cured when I went through the Eisenhower Tunnel the first time.

[ch4rl3s]

Originally Posted by EvilTOJ

That reminds me, when I was a kid I used to hold my breath through tunnels. No reason, just because. That got cured when I went through the Eisenhower Tunnel the first time.

My sisters and I use to do this as well, (still do some times.) It started because one tunnel we went through on a regular basis ran under the river... We just had to hold our breath underwater...

[salinqmind]

Originally Posted by carnut

But the favorite urge I get is one I've never actually done, but have seen done. When going in the opposite direction (at speed), roll down the window and wave vigorously and smile at the crowd of cars sitting still, bumper-to-bumper, as they attempt to make the morning commute to the office.

Be prepared for unpleasantness. I'll never forget the time I had the good sense, during winter, to take the bus to and from work. There I was, safe and snug on the bus, crawling along the parkway in a dark raging snowstorm. I looked down at the car alongside us, one guy grimly gripping his steering wheel as we inched down the road, feeling very happy and smug that it wasn't ME driving in that mess. Caught his eye, smiled, gave him a thumbs up. And that rude pig gave me a one-digit salute in return!