# Common phrases ruined for you by media? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 30, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-ruined-for-you-by-media/820526 "2018-08-30T15:00:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-ruined-for-you-by-media/820526/21 "2018-09-01T03:56:32Z")
Much appreciated, **digs**. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-ruined-for-you-by-media/820526/22 "2018-09-01T13:30:57Z")
“Tastes like chicken.” But, but, but … what if it actually tastes like chicken and you aren’t being funny? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-ruined-for-you-by-media/820526/23 "2018-09-01T13:39:30Z")
You done messed up, A-a-ron. Or rather just the name A-a-ron. In fact, Key and Peele publicly (but jokingly) apologized to all the people named Aaron whose name they ruined. ---
**Author:** ![Panther\_Modern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@Panther\_Modern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panther_Modern)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-ruined-for-you-by-media/820526/24 "2018-09-01T15:15:07Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > “Big Lebowski” quotes are played out. And I say this as a person who actually got to use the “You’re obviously not a golfer.” line. You’re out of your element, E-DUB. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-ruined-for-you-by-media/820526/25 "2018-09-01T15:25:09Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > “Big Lebowski” quotes are played out. And I say this as a person who actually got to use the “You’re obviously not a golfer.” line. Let’s not be hasty; I still haven’t seen, “Big Lebowski,” so all those quotes will be fresh to me, eventually. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-ruined-for-you-by-media/820526/26 "2018-09-05T04:05:38Z")
Whenever I see a “Baby on Board” sign (or the equivalent), I think of Marge Simpson saying “Now people will stop intentionally ramming our car!” ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-ruined-for-you-by-media/820526/27 "2018-09-05T10:38:05Z")
I’m still furious - I mean literally furious - about the ruination of the word “meme”. I mean, we wait decades for a word to be proposed that means that thing (thank you, Richard Dawkins) and then it’s bastardised in a couple of months of misuse by empty heads on the internet. Shit. j ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-ruined-for-you-by-media/820526/28 "2018-09-05T13:15:39Z")
I read a book from 1976 that used the expression “dark side.” Star Wars, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-ruined-for-you-by-media/820526/29 "2018-09-05T14:35:35Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Whenever I see a “Baby on Board” sign (or the equivalent), I think of Marge Simpson saying “Now people will stop intentionally ramming our car!” When you mentioned “Baby on Board” I thought that you were going to say [the song](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pURFU3pL93o). ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-ruined-for-you-by-media/820526/30 "2018-09-05T14:44:45Z")
Not exactly a phrase but I’m getting very tired of scandals and controversies of the week being described as “----------gate”. It’s just sad, tired and overplayed. Let it go. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-ruined-for-you-by-media/820526/31 "2018-09-05T22:15:05Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > Not exactly a phrase but I’m getting very tired of scandals and controversies of the week being described as “----------gate”. It’s just sad, tired and overplayed. Let it go. A few years ago there was a row about a government minister insulting a police officer who was manning the gate at the end of Downing Street. There was a big controversy and it was front page news for a couple of days. The media finally had their chance to have a Gate Gate and they totally missed it. Once again, the British press shamed themselves. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-ruined-for-you-by-media/820526.md?page=1)