I’m shocked…
and stunned…
very stunned.
OK, who gets THAT reference?!?
Well, if the person rubbed their feet on the carpet before urinating, they’d be shocked too.
Well, you’re right. There are certainly some catch-phrases and in-jokes I could live quite happily never hearing again. I just don’t see any point in raining on someone else’s parade. Different people are amused by different things. C’est la vie, and so on.
I’m too sexy for my shock.
Too sexy for my shock.
So sexy I rock.
Remarks like those can get you arrested for battery.
In jail, society would be insulated from your fused wit.
Can traumatizing events still be seared – seared! – into my memory?
:::begins plotting April Fool’s prank:::
But don’t you know you’ve got to shock the monkey.
I think I’m going to cry. Fortunately, no one can see me now in my office…or they’d be wondering why I’m laughing…(hi baseball hubby! LTNS)
Contrariwise, I do enjoy hearing people say,
“We’re going to be rich, RICH I TELL YA.”
That’ll never grow old.
The OP can’t grasp the concept that the “shocked, shocked” construction conveys sarcasm… yet he accuses others of having no sense of humor? Oy vey.
On a slight tangent, I don’t say “shocked, SHOCKED” in those situations, I usually end the sentence and say “I’m shocked! SHOCKED, I tell you!” or the more obviously sarcastic “Ooh, shocker!” Anyone else have variations of the “sarcastic shocked”?
No, Minnie, just you.
Ah, it’s a 1920s style death shock.
You post this, and then go on to accuse other people of not having a sense of humor?
Motes and beams, man. Motes and beams.
Oy fuck.
The original construction (at least why I’m calling “original”, the Casablanca joke) conveyed humor by indicating Renault’s hyperbolic disbelief, followed by the line “your winnings, sir”, and Renault quietly “yes, thank you.” Renault (at least in the joke’s framework) genuinely wanted people to believe he was terrifically shocked, not that he was sarcastically acknowledging that gambling went on.
Of course, it’s current usage is typically sarcastic, but a writer using a cliche to convey sarcasm still means the writer is being lazy.
See for example, the URL in the OP.
And consider “you showed up at a free clinic wearing bondage gear, and you were shocked when the overworked, underpaid practicitioner wondered if you might not be there for a cheap thrill?”
The original gains absolutely little and is just a short-cut cliche. It has become so pervasive that I imagine he wrote “shocked-shocked” and didn’t give it a consideration beyond whether he should put a dash or a comma in there. If he did, then tell me, what is his thought process, “hmm, I need a line to convey humorous disdain for this woman’s cluelessness. I could come up with my own joke, or I could just write ‘shocked-shocked’ which everyone should read as code for ‘the author is humorous’”. He defaulted to the cliche instead of doing the work. THAT’S why it’s poor usage.
Geez, sorry for coming in here the first place.
mildly miffed
Good God, Trunk, who died and made you Lord High Arbiter of What Is Humorous? Get over yourself.
How many people agree with me that he’s pretentious, pedantic, and not terribly funny?
Me.
Ohm, my God, sir, that was truly re-volting and had nothing to do with the current discussion.
I for one welcome our new shocking overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted bombastic SDMB personality, I could be helpful in shocking others.
Indeed. he should be put in a cell.