# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/81 "2005-07-18T10:45:06Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > Who you gonna call? He-man. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/82 "2005-07-18T15:40:08Z")
Not sure this qualifies, but this morning MSNBC ran a headline reading _JUSTICE FOR SADDAM_ and I shortly found myself humming an old Warner Bros. toon tune called [_Flowers for Madame._](http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/618-Flowers_For_Madame.html) ---
**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/83 "2005-07-18T19:38:33Z")
Whee! =\> sleekit, cowrin’, timorous beastie… Come =\> I will make you a fisher of men Assume =\> you make an ass out of you and me A longer variant, but: I see =\> said the blind man to his deaf daughter when the dead horse kicked him in the amputated leg ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/84 "2005-07-18T19:49:19Z")
Dave’s not here, man. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/85 "2005-07-18T20:22:37Z")
When I hear “lights out” I sing “uh-huh…blast, blast, blast.” I don’t even remember the name of that song, but I think that lyric will be with me forever. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/86 "2005-07-19T04:24:26Z")
This trigger is genetically programmed in my brain at the subatomic level: “phenomenon” =\> “do doooo da doo doo” ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/87 "2005-07-19T04:27:32Z")
Oh! Oh! Oh! Sorry for double-posting, but I almost forgot one. Whenever the topic of Star Wars comes up (way too often at my work), inevitably someone says “May the Force be with you” to which I simply _must_ reply “And also with you.” Heh! And I’m not even Catholic! ---
**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 19, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/88 "2005-07-19T14:08:43Z")
> [@Susie Derkins](#): > > When I hear “lights out” I sing “uh-huh…blast, blast, blast.” > > I don’t even remember the name of that song, but I think that lyric will be with me forever. Yup, that’s a good one, too. J. Geils Band - “Lights Out.” Oh, I thought of another one - whenever we come back home, I almost always say “Home again, home again, jiggety-jig.” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/89 "2005-07-19T15:01:42Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Oh, I thought of another one - whenever we come back home, I almost always say “Home again, home again, jiggety-jig.” Wow, me too…I thought I was the only one. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/90 "2005-07-20T13:14:41Z")
Cow-orker who sits next to me asked a question about our “dental plan” to which I _had_ to reply “Lisa needs braces.” ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2005, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/91 "2005-07-24T06:46:38Z")
Maria must be followed by Theresa. I guess I just studied a _bit_ too much before my test on the war of Austrian succession. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/92 "2005-07-24T06:47:56Z")
But I don’t have the same reaction to pragmatic and sanction. Hmm… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386.md?page=4)