# Flanderisms **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446 "2003-10-14T20:36:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/1 "2003-10-14T20:36:55Z")
_Hens love roosters Geese love ganders Everyone else loves Ned Flanders!_ Absitively posilutely! I’m going to put the “pal” back in principal. _Keep 'em coming._ ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/2 "2003-10-14T21:11:00Z")
Well take out a box of Crayolas and color me Tickled Pink! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/3 "2003-10-14T21:21:01Z")
The last thing I bought for a woman was a casket! (not a typical Flanderism, but I thought it was funny, in a tasteless way) ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/4 "2003-10-14T21:39:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\*_Hens love roosters > Geese love ganders > Everyone else loves > Ned Flanders!_ > > * * * [Homer] Not me! [/Homer] ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/5 "2003-10-14T22:22:37Z")
_Everyone who counts loves Ned Flanders!_ I like it when he refers to his moustache as a “soup strainer” or “cookie duster.” ---
**Author:** ![petelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@petelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petelin)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/6 "2003-10-14T22:33:49Z")
Very loosely translated: Lisa: Hi Mr. Flanders, did you read the paper today? Ned: Every word, except the opinions page. I don’t like being told what to think…at least not by anyone living. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/7 "2003-10-14T22:55:05Z")
He didn’t say it, but I do, in his style: _God-diddely-Dammit-a-rino!_ ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/8 "2003-10-14T23:15:31Z")
_Everyone who counts loves Ned Flanders!_ ---
**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/9 "2003-10-14T23:23:06Z")
And if you really tick me off, I’ll run you down with my car… _twitch_ ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/10 "2003-10-15T02:00:26Z")
During his aggresive early years: Little Ned: [barging in] Whee! I’m Dick Tracy! [hitting the other kids] Bang! Take _that_, Pruneface! Now I’m Pruneface, take _that_ Dick Tracy! Now I’m Prune Tracy, take _that_ Dick… Dr. Foster: Hey! Stop it at once! Earlier in that episode, after the house built for the Flanderses collapses: Ned: Calm down, Neddly diddily diddily diddily, doodily. They did their best shoddily iddily iddily diddily diddily. Gotta be nice, hostility-dididildilidilly ah HELL diddily ding dong _crap!_ Can’t you morons do anything RIGHT!? ---
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/11 "2003-10-15T02:45:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BuckleberryFerry \* > \*\*_Everyone who counts loves Ned Flanders!_ > > I like it when he refers to his moustache as a “soup strainer” or “cookie duster.” \*\* Don’t forget “pushbroom.” ---
**Author:** ![Jello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@Jello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jello)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/12 "2003-10-15T02:49:55Z")
Son of a diddly! Flanders: Homer, why did you go through my flower bed? Homer: Can’t build a float without flowers. Flanders: Well, okay, but did you have to salt the earth so that nothing could ever grow again? Homer: Heh heh…yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/13 "2003-10-15T04:05:38Z")
If it’s yella’, you got juice there fella’. If it’s brown, you’re in cider town. And examples of other people using Flanderisms, such as… **Jose Flanders:** Buenos Ding dong didlyos, senor! \*\*Lord Thistlewick Flanders: \*\* Charmed. **nudge** …Eh, a googily…doogily. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/14 "2003-10-15T04:33:57Z")
Just relax, and let the hooks do their work. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/15 "2003-10-15T05:35:44Z")
Time for some re-Neducation! ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/16 "2003-10-15T05:49:01Z")
\I think I’m coveting my own wife!\ ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/17 "2003-10-15T05:54:56Z")
“Why it’s Lisa Simpson! Springfield’s answer to the question _ **NOBODY ASKED!** _” Half the quotes in this thread are from that episode. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/18 "2003-10-15T06:31:27Z")
Boys, get Daddy’s exorcism kit. Boys, get Daddy’s burying shovel. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/19 "2003-10-15T07:33:01Z")
Yay! 😃 Whoa! Good thing I was wearing a piece of the true cross! I can’t believe no one posted the ultimate… Okley Dokley! ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446/20 "2003-10-15T07:39:21Z")
Boys, get Daddy’s emergency baptism kit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flanderisms/207446.md?page=2)