I think if I ever get a pair of pet cats again, they will be named Snafu and Fubar. They will wear little camouflage jackets on special occasions. Snaffy and Fooey for short.
I saw one the other day I liked so much I made it my signature .
Yes, I know these terms. Many of my friends are pirates, oops, I mean sailors.
And from jetsam…jettison, jettisoned, etc.
Is that what they call the breakfast of champions?
I’d like to think so. Definitely breakfast of vacation.
From the dear departed Ray O. Smith, after expressing an opinion:
I don’t know nuthin’ ‘bout nuthin’
Me, after someone experiences computer troubles:
Computers, they make our lives easier!
My good friend E, a wise philosopher, expressing a sentiment that I apply often when choosing not to post a reply on the SDMB:
When a dog barks, do you answer it?
“He was all over him like a cheap suit.”
I hope they won’t go AWOL.
Support bacteria - it’s the only culture some people have.
Funny!
A couple more…
JANFU - Joint Army-Navy Eff Up
TAMFR - This Ain’t My First Rodeo
Most of my career has been in government contracts; “Eschew obfuscation” was my e-mail tagline for years.
When someone at work is getting defensive, thinking I’m about to step on their toes: “Not my circus, not my monkeys” followed by a sotto voce “my monkeys fly.”
To myself, when I really don’t think I can take another day: “I’ll get through this; I never think I’m going to, and I always do.”
I don’t think anyone’s mentioned this so far. It’s my waying of expressing Hanlon’s Razor.
‘Don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance’.
Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse. - Author unknown
Ride it like you stole it. - Also unknown
We have shortened that to either “You’ve been hoist!” or just “HOIST!”
We’ve also shortened “If it was a snake it would have bit you” to “SNAKE!”
I think I use wonky almost every day. I also like discombobulated and FUBAR. The other military term I think to myself or text to my SO but would not say put loud is Charlie Foxtrot.
Hunter S Thompson’s original quotation has been modified in many places, but the spirit remains the same.
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
Actually seen on cars (70s-80s):
Beam me up Scotty, there’s no intelligent life down here.
Jesus is coming back, and boy is he pissed.
And my favorite, for sale at the county fair in the 90s…
Horn broke. Watch for finger.
My personal fave bumper sticker (on my vehicle):
STUPID PEOPLE SHOULDN’T BREED
I loved the way some people would read it (with their lips moving) and then look perplexed. They were who the statement was directed at, but it flew right over their heads.
“…with their lips moving…” haha
Reminds me of this one.
Stupid is as stupid does. - Forrest, Forrest Gump
I just read where Bismark said, **“History occurs when things happen.” **Then I did a search and could not find any proof of him saying such a thing. Shame. He would have said it had he only thought of it.