Sometimes it’s on the tip of my tongue when speaking to say I’m going to ‘pit’ something. Or ask for a cite.
Ironically, I think I have yet to pit anyone or ask for a cite on the SDMB.
Also, I started to use the words ‘dren’ and ‘frell’ after watching way too much Farscape in a row.
Maybe I’m just impressionable.
I have a bad habit of reading very British books with different British words and I am a big fan of Monty Python, etc. After watching too many of these movies in a row, I have a depressing tendency to walk around speaking in a British accent. This isn’t a problem that seems to affect anyone else I know. If I spend too much time around one person, I start picking up their mannerisms.
Maybe I should work as a celebrity impersonator if I ever grow up…
I’ll have a random word or phrase wandering around in my head sometimes, and only after repeating it a few times I’ll realize it’s a Doper name!
“dwyr? What the hell is a dwyr? Why is that in my head? Where have I seen that before?”
Different one every time, too. I think maybe I spend too much time here.
I write “Cite?” on my students’ papers all the time, although I have to admit it didn’t occur to me to think of it as a Doperism until now. I wonder if I’ll ever get a student who recognizes it as such. (As a side note, my Writing Across the Disciplines course features a unit on science and skepticism, and I’ve had students reference Cecil’s columns more than once. I always get a kick out of it when that happens.)
Yeah, ‘Cite?’ might not be the best example of a doperism. Although, I believe the particular usage of the word just by itself is somewhat unique to these boards.
My husband is fond of our old-fashioned egg beater, the kind with the hand crank. The other day I said to him “It’s a 1920’s style egg beater.” And it is. But he didn’t get it.
I made him angry by joking about pie once too often. As a penalty, I stopped making pie until he got over it.
I also fall victim to the “Pit” idea. In fact, I said it to an idiot today, I looked him dead in the eye and said “I’ll pit your stupid (censored) for this, you jerk.” He just looked at me. But he was stupid, so he wouldn’t have been able to say anything even if he knew what the pit was.
I’m addicted to the Dope, aren’t I?
I finally read the “1920’s style death ray” thread today, and ended up re-running old conversations in my brain and inserting “1920’s tyle death ray” into them.
When I am driving or at work or anywhere there are annoying people I find myself composing pit threads in my head … and I have never started a pit thread.
I know that when I’m drunk I slip into either an Irish or German accent.
No doperisms though.
Unless when talking to one of my friends, one of us mentions a “1920’s style death ray.”
I use “When come back, bring [coherency, substance, etc.].” I know this didn’t stem from the Dope, but this is where I was first exposed to it and so I always associate it with the Board.
Every time somebody says something to me, I take their words, put 'em in the {quote} brackets, and then finally respond to them.
It’s a little hard to do in real life but with a bit of practice you can do it, too.
I don’t care how old that one gets, it still cracks me up. And there are still plenty of dopers who manage to slip it in in some clever ways. Phoooey on the sourpusses I hope it never dies!
And yeah, it occurs to me out in real life too. And then right on the heels of it is “DAMN, no one will get it but me, what a shame”.
Also, I often think “cite” and use it, but replace it with another word, or words. To iffy sounding claims I reply something to the effect of “do you have any documentation or actual data with which to back that up”?
I told someone I was going to pit something the other day. They just went, “what?”
I thought it was fairly self explanatory.
It’s tempting to write puzzle clues with Doper referents. Words I know I’ve rejected Dope clues for include names like lieu (oh come on, at least, uh, two people would get “Poop-obsessed Doper”!), eve, and ** Rue [de Day], Doc [Cathode], [Little] Nemo**, etc. I’m also tempted to use phrases and injokes like “cite” or “ray” (as in, “'20s-style death __”).
And I have more than once had to stop myself while mucking around in a grid from putting in words like angua, sampiro, misstee, Aesiron, DMark or SPOOFE, all of which have crossed my mind as possible ways of fixing a bad cross (or making in worse, I gues…)
Wow, I coulda been in a crossword puzzle? That’s more amazing than anything that’s ever happened to me… I’m touched!
“Og” has crept into my day-to-day vocabulary.
It doesn’t seem to mystify anyone, though.
I often refer to a “metric buttload” of which I think I got from here.
It never fails to crack people up, and of course they all think it’s original to me! :evil grin:
For Pitizens: “Goat felcher”