“Oh, for the love of breadcrumbs!” Dunno why, but I started saying this as a kid as my exaspiration of choice. Maybe I picked it up from my grandmother, but I don’t know for certain…
If I have to write some code from scratch at work, I’ll say that “I just pulled it out of the ethernet”. Some people laugh, other people think I’m being serious and then start explaining to me what “ethernet” means. :rolleyes:
My fiancee & I took German together in college, and we started naming everything in pseudoGerman-- I don’t think we’ve called it a “remote control” for years, it’s now “die Remottenkontroller”. I know it’s the two of us, but it does earn us more than our share of bizarro looks from guests.
My ex’s mother was visiting her and the TV was on mute. So at the bottom corner of the screen was the word “muting.” Mom_Markers was wondering about the program and from across the room mistook the label for some kind of network watermark. She asked “What is this ‘Mutting’ show?” So now whenever we want to mute a commercial, we call out "Mutting show!"
Most of the things that I say, I either got from my friends, or they stole from me. For example: When somebody says something rather obvious (as I like to call a DUH statement) My usual reply will be “Thank you Captain Obvious!” (I think that came from a cartoon or something) or “Somebody fell out of the DUH tree this morning!”
I make up a lot of random words all the time, usually to prevent myself form using naughty language. That’s where “schizznig” came from - a last minute catch, that kinda caught on.
One of my friend’s phrases of choice is “Holy crap-ola” Who knows where that came from
I don’t know where I picked it up, but people look at me like I have broccoli growing out of my ears when I say
“I don’t give a flying rat’s ass about…<insert whatever annoys you here>”
In those situations, I sometimes say “I’m aware of that, thanks Agent Scully.” Because in the handfull of episodes of X-Files that I’ve seen, Scully would always point out something obvious as if it were a precious pearl of arcane and mysterious knowledge from her vast, encyclopedic brain. Like the time somebody was talking about protons and neutrons or something and she said “Those are subatomic particles.”
Ah, well I don’t have any original phrases that I use, but I have some left over terminology from Down Under that I use pretty often.
“Good on ya!” often requires a repeat and explanation in Upper Michigan.
Now that I think about it, despite being so close to Canada, I don’t believe I’ve ever heard anyone else around here say “no doubt”, as well.
I swear I started that Captain Obvious thing… I called myself that once in about seventh grade when someone told me that I frequently pointed out the obvious, I said it was a superpower. But I’ve since broken myself of the habit, now all of my observations are bizarre and nobody gets them.
These days I like to tell people I’m not hungry when they offer me something that’s not intended as a food, like a napkin or a chair. Really throws people off.
When I’m asked “How are you?” (HAY) I usually answer “I’m still breathin’.” Occasionally I’ll answer “Breathin’.” I picked that phrase up from a high school chum and I’ve heard no-one else use it but me for many years.
I’ve actually had people take offense to “still breathin’” used as an answer to HAY. My response to them is: “It’s no less informative than ‘I am fine.’ If you wanted a more specific answer, you should have asked a more specific question.”
I use another phrase for mild astonishment: “Well, dip me in dog food and call me Alpo!” It’s probably a permutation of some other phrase I’ve heard at one time or another, but I don’t remember how I came by that one.
My mom recently used a phrase I never heard of before. She described how my nephew keeps his car in such a high state of tune with “He keeps his car tuned to a gnat’s eyeball.”
My mother says “A.S.P.”, I guess she is so busy there is no reason for the other “A”…My sister, father, and I all say it now.
My sister has her whole life referred to the Heimlich “Remover” as a life saver. We kept that one too.
My b/friend and I both call a good parking spot “Rock Star Parking” and frequently call each other “Poncho” when we do/say something stupid (*please note, we do not think everyone named Poncho is dumb and do not mean to offend), and “Smarty-Pants Britches” when we are proven wrong by the other. I don’t know why we added the britches.?
I have recently gotten my 9 yr. old cousin to start saying “grody”…I’m waiting to hear it from one of her friends.
Not that nobody uses it, but I say “Qu’est-ce que c’est?” quite often when I want to know what something is or what Mr. Snicks is doing with something I don’t recognize. And even tho’ he’s never taken a lick of French, he always answers correctly (in English, of course). He’ll also give me the correct time when I ask “Quelle heure est-il?” Smart kid, that one.
My parents (having met in German class in college) used “gaben zie” constantly. Usually accompanied by a pointing finger, because while they remembered the German for “give me,” they’d forgotten the word for whatever it was they wanted to be given.
I use “back up 10 and punt” quite often for “we’ll have to try again” - my friend told me she’d never heard anyone use that phrase before. Get it from my mom.
Snicks
This was very popular in my high school and I’ve geard it a lot even since then.
I’ve gotten in the habit of saying that anyone could do something, such as my job, by saying it could be done by a one armed monkey with a glass eye and a hook for a hand.
I won’t pretend to have invented it, but instead of “six of one, half a dozen of another” or another two-items-similar phrase, I throw out an “it’s all ball-bearings.”
Variation on a Fletch quote. The people who get it immediately become good friends.
“It’s the end of an era”… I say this when we run out of something we’ve had for a long time, like a giant bottle of shampoo or a case of dented canned soup from the thrift store. Then my s.o. goes, “Okaaaaaayyyyy…” :dubious:
Anybody else say, “I’ve been dipped in shit!” when you feel like you could get knocked over by a feather? I used to say that in the 80’s when I was probably kind of a dipshit.
Oh, whenever we noticed that someone we know has put on a few pounds (this came up a lot this winter) it’s…"(name) has got a little dunlap going on" as in their stomach has done lapped over their pants. Unfortunately, most of these references were about each other (lil sis and I)
