# Anyone Else Have "Word Triggers"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 13, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386 "2005-07-13T19:15:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/61 "2005-07-15T17:33:12Z")
> [@Little Bird](#): > > It’s possible… Pig. ooh! Me too! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/62 "2005-07-15T17:51:08Z")
> [@Jurph](#): > > There is a whole long chain of these. The one I heard most recently was: > > Center for Disease Control? > _You bet I did!_ Here’s a Canadian addition to that list - there’s a city in Alberta called Red Deer, and thanks to an old classmate, I now hear “and damned sore, too” in my head after every time I hear it. Oh, I thought of another one - Madeline Kahn from “Blazing Saddles” - “It’s twue! It’s twue!” whenever I ascertain the veracity of something. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/63 "2005-07-15T19:59:16Z")
Rocky Horror: Dammit=\> Janet MST3K=Time of the Apes “Easy” (while lifting Carolanne up into the oh-so-roomy airducts) =\>“Harder” (while lifting the bulky Johnny up there next) ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/64 "2005-07-16T00:38:25Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > viaduct… [Chico Marx]OK, why a duck?[/Chico] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/65 "2005-07-16T02:08:48Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > Rocky Horror: > > Dammit=\> Janet > \ Oh, yeah - that’s a good one. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/66 "2005-07-16T02:37:49Z")
A kind of obscure ACDC reference: Whenever somebody begins a statement with “It’s my belief that…” I always think “…that my big balls should be held every night.” ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/67 "2005-07-16T04:54:43Z")
It’s not irrelevant it’s a hippopotamus! It’s from a Flanders and Swann comedy song, entitled, _The Hippopotamus’ Song_. My husband and I always have to follow irrelevant with hippopotamus. It’s necessary. Things will burst internally if I don’t say it. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/68 "2005-07-16T21:20:01Z")
“Wire brush?” “Because it works!” (From a show called “The Furniture Guys.”) ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/69 "2005-07-16T21:36:18Z")
\*It’s 10 o’clock \* - do you know where your children are? _Merry Christmas!_ - Christmas?! What do you _want_? [/Filbert] _Bunch of wild pigs…_ - (high pitched) I’m a wild pig! _What’s the answer to \_\_\_\_\_?_ - 42. _Know why?_ - Chicken thigh. Anything to do with fish usually prompts a “Fish Heads” serenade… or, on occasion, a sudden outburst of: “_Roly poly fish heads are never seen drinking cappucinos in Italian restaurants with Oriental women! …Yeah_!” These are more or less irresistable to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/70 "2005-07-16T22:38:01Z")
‘Hey!’ --is for horses. And yes, anything to do with fish, fish heads, roly poly, cappuchino, Italian restaurants, or Oriental women (un-PC and much less common these days), will be immediately followed by the Fish Heads song. ---
**Author:** ![Kakkerlak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@Kakkerlak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kakkerlak)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/71 "2005-07-16T23:17:57Z")
“It’s possible.” ==\> “it’s just _possible_ !”, from Henry Fonda’s performance in Twelve Angry Men. A lot harder for folks to understand is: “that does not make sense.” ==\> “if Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit !” ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/72 "2005-07-17T00:13:26Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > _Bunch of wild pigs…_ - (high pitched) I’m a wild pig! Holy. Crap. I just about fell out of my chair laughing. I haven’t thought of that line in _years_. Was that Rocko’s Modern Life? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/73 "2005-07-17T01:37:53Z")
“Now you know.” ==\> “And knowing is half the battle.” ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/74 "2005-07-17T02:48:46Z")
> [@Hung Mung](#): > > Holy. Crap. > I just about fell out of my chair laughing. I haven’t thought of that line in _years_. > Was that Rocko’s Modern Life? Aye. Driver’s Education class. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/75 "2005-07-17T03:36:21Z")
Don’t step on the blue ones. Hhhhot lava. \ PINEapples! … And don’t get the fat guy! ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/76 "2005-07-17T05:20:52Z")
Any time someone answers a question with “Depends,” I have to ask, “Undergarments?” ---
**Author:** ![Typically\_Sunday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Typically\_Sunday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typically_Sunday)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/77 "2005-07-17T20:55:27Z")
All of mine seem to involve breaking into song. For instance, I can’t think about Finland without singing the Finland song from Monty Python. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/78 "2005-07-17T23:11:15Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > Like the “shadoobie” thing, if someone says “5 miles long,” I want to go, “doo dah, doo dah.” Camptown Races. You know… > > I had a friend in college who, whenever you asked what time it was, he’d say, “Time to die!” I have an nearly irresistible urge to say that whenever someone asks me what time it is. I can usually prevent myself from blurting it out in inappropriate company. > > Then there’s the classic, whenever anyone says “shave and a haircut,” to yell out, “TWO BITS!” But I can rarely hold back when that happens. “Flies in de buttermilk, shoo fly shoo” “Skip to my loo my darlin’” You WILL have this in your memory. Warf says so! I will accept corrections to the above quotes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PhoenixFire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@PhoenixFire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhoenixFire)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/79 "2005-07-18T04:04:06Z")
I’m one of those strange people who go to see Rocky Horror with the call backs I have seen it close to a dozen times almost all of the call back are now on auto fire, those who knows of them will under stand how this can get you into trouble in polite company one example becareful it spits–\> doesn’t anyone in this cast swallow (please forgive the leudity but it’s the most pointed example and one i have accidentally slipped on in public) another one is an inside joke between my friends fluffy bunnies–\>fluffy bunnies fucking —\> fucking fluffy bunnies ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/80 "2005-07-18T06:27:43Z")
I love [Strindberg and Helium](http://www.strindbergandhelium.com/) but it’s left me with a tendency to want to do the Helium response when people complain to me. Example: “I was cutting my sandwich and sliced my thumb - it was bleeding everywhere!” (at this point i have to resist the urge to say ‘bleeeeding!’ in the high-pitched tones of Helium.) Also, not a word trigger but an action trigger - my husband and I both occasionally say ‘for you!!’ in Helium-voice if we bring the other a snack. (That’s from [this](http://www.strindbergandhelium.com/iron.html) episode, in which the proper pronunciation of ‘bleeeding’ also appears.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386.md?page=5)