I do. It’s “Wheee!” It can convey almost anything I am thinking/feeling at the moment, or simply nothing at all.
A simple RAR does it for me, It can convey joy, sadness, excitement or anger. It all depends on how I decide to say it. And it’s RAR as in car, odd but it keeps me happy.
I’m not going to explain why, because it’s a private joke between my wife and I, but my all purpose word around the house is “bite”.
Never mind:D
Yummy.
“Swell”. I use it esp when asked “How are ya?”. With the right inflections, it can mean almost anything.
Dude!
**PPOPP **
So I have an all purpose sound. It works just as well.
-The Shadowed One-
D’oh!
When I was in HS, it was “glory” which, like “swell” can have meanings depending on the inflections, etc.
Now I think it’s “lovely” or something like that.
BOOYA!
<DoH>
Bah!
AcK!!
These, of course, are online all purpose words…
-Sam
festeris - can mean just about anything, but is particularly useful to name the thing that you can’t remember the name of, to whit: “Susan, where is the, the, the, oh, you know, the festeris?”
Glad you asked. I am known for making up words, and slipping them into coversations, where people think they are real slang words. Examples:[ul]
[li]Narfblat. It’s the perfect word. As a greeting: “Narf!” as an adjective “I feel all narfy today.” As a swear: “Blat you!” The whole world will be using Narfblat one day, blat my word.[/li]
[li]McGuyver. After seeing Swingers with SisterRiddles for the first time, we decided we needed a word that correlated to their use of the word “money,” as in “You’re so money, baby, and you don’t even know it.” So I came up with McGuyver, on the principal that anyone that can get out of a Yukrainian prison with a paperclip and a piece of gum deserves his own slang word. Hence “That shirt is TOTALLY McGuyver!” But soon, we needed a word that was the anti-McGuyver. What to do? Who is the antithesis of Mac? Easy. Kathie Lee Gifford. “Hon, I’m sorry, but those shoes were McGuyver last season. They’re a tad Kathie Lee now.” [/ul][/li]
Feel free to use these terms widely.
Whoa. No I don’t own a horse.
“Gryp” - pronounced with the Danish “y”-sound I’m not going to try to describe phonetically. A bit like the German “ü”.
It’s primarily used to convey a sense of “though I understand the individual words, what you’re saying makes no sense to me right now, please elaborate or provide context”, very practical if you’re the slightly absent-minded type (which I, admittedly, am).
Idiot salesperson on phone, with no other intro: “What’s the best available router for a leased line ?” “Hmmm - gryp?”
Also very useful when you need to name a variable in a hurry.
BTW, it’s a quote from the Danish translation of the infamous Vogon poem from “Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy” (Last verse, 1st line: “Gryp, jeg beder dig”).
S. Norman
Cool beans, heard it from a coworker, now I try to put it into all of my conversations!
“Skunks?”
Now bear with me on this. You know that comercial for DSL where the kid is on stage saying something like “Hark, the skunks approach.” Then they cut to three kids in skunk costumes waiting for a download on stage fright. Cut back to a now nervous, sweating, make-up-smearing kid on staging squeaking out - “Skunks?” - The way the kid says it just cracks me up.
Well, if you haven’t seen the commercial I can’t do it justice here, but whenever my wife and I are in a situation with each other when something needs to be said, but neither one of us can think of anything, we just look at each other and say, “Skunks?”
There you have it - a little slice of the Batty household.
Smurf. Great all-purpose noun or verb, especially for situations requiring discretion (“he really smurfed the pooch on that one”).
I may get into trouble here, I think this might be proprietary to our college years, but one of my brothers started saying “soy” whenever he got excited about something. It stuck.
Now whenever someone says virtually anything that doesn’t actully require a response…Soy. Also used in place of “Yeah” “Woohoo” “Shit!” “Whoops” ect.
oh, yeah…another word: “What” Just throw it out there in the middle what of a sentence. Say you’re what driving down the street, talking to someone, as you do you just toss in what and look at them like they just said something… totally throws them.
Spaz.
It can be a curse: You SPAZ!
or an endearment: oh, you little spaz!