# "I started that. Yeah that was me" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 8, 2006, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517 "2006-03-08T07:25:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/81 "2006-04-10T13:32:30Z")
> [@Mynn](#): > > I didn’t start it on teh interweb, but I infected my friends with the use of the term “pancake” - as in “What the Pancake” and “you pancaking motherpancaker”. Helps that I control the dirty word filter at one place, too, so now it’s an official subsitution. You know when you are walking down a busy street and you want to point out a really hot person to your companion but you don’t want to be obvious about it? I used “pancake” as the code word for this; just inject it into whatever you are saying to alert your friend. The practice spread far and wide to my circle of…maybe two. ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/82 "2006-04-10T16:13:47Z")
As a commentary on the repetitious plots during the run of _The Dukes of Hazzard_, Waylon Jennings, in his narration, referred to the generic bad guys in a particular episode as “the baddies.” He was known for ad-libbing many great lines during his narration, and no one seemed to catch on that he was using this phrase to say “This week’s bad guys.” Anyway, I loved it so much that I used the phrase regularly in online games. “Careful, I see a bunch of baddies around that corner,” “I’m just taking out baddies by the dozen,” “That explosion killed at least ten baddies,” etc. Now I hear that phrase all the time, especially in gaming. So, I didn’t _invent_ the phrase “baddy/baddies,” but I was instrumental in in its widespread usage. I’m not sure if Waylon Jennings invented it, either, but he still has the best usage of the term. I have since borrowed several of his other sayings. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/83 "2006-04-10T19:38:33Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > LOL! This was satirized–or perhaps “mocked” is a better word–in an episode of _South_ _Park_ a while back. The last time my parents were visiting they wanted to go to KMart to check for Treefitty bathing suits for Mom. I said, is that a brand name? Turns out, no, when bathing suits go into deep discount at KMart they always end up costing $3.50, and _my parents_ were slicker than I was in adopting a SouthParkism into their daily lives. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/84 "2006-04-10T19:49:50Z")
I was convinced I’d invented the sounds-rude-in-a-British-context-but-isn’t word “prannock”. It’s halfway between a “prat” and a “pillock”. I’ve heard it lots on comedy shows since, so I probably didn’t. Though I reckon I did. And turning the word “flange” into innuendo, that’s one of mine too. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/85 "2006-04-10T22:44:14Z")
> [@START](#): > > Well I’m 90 per cent sure I invented the word **“Britishism”** as far as this message board goes… I started a thread about words that british people use and called them \*\*“Britishisms” \*\* and still see that word pop up now and then. Well then you’re 90% wrong. Did it occur to you to do a search? The first time that the word was used on this board was in November of 2000. There was an entire thread devoted to Britishisms in December 2000. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/86 "2006-04-11T03:06:55Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Nah. Not on _purpose_, anyway. “Penis ensues” belongs to the masses - they ran with it. I hid under a rock. /me: Proud to have been around at the, um, insemination, of THAT great phrase. I’m on the IT staff for the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. Since we have machines that must sit near other department’s machines, we couldn’t name our servers web1, web2, web3, etc. So we shortened it to scdle (server, colorado department…) I coined the name ‘skidelee’ to that acronym…and it’s been massacred by those not in the know as skeddadelee, skiddilee, etc. But I made it up. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/87 "2006-04-11T14:30:56Z")
> [@Lissa](#): > > Another seemingly unique phrase used at his workplace (but he is unaware of the origins) _A Come to Jesus meeting_: when you call an employee on the carpet and warn them to change their ways or else. As in, “I think it’s time we had a Come to Jesus meeting with Bob.” A “Come to Jesus meeting” has been a term my father’s used to describe nasty meetings for at least 25, 30 years, and I think it predates him. **Charger** , if Waylon Jennings was using the term “Baddies” on an extremely popular TV show, wtahced by millions of folks, why would you think YOU in particular were the one who popularized it in any arena? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/88 "2006-04-11T14:42:55Z")
[Al Gore] I invented the internet. [/Al Gore] ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/89 "2006-04-11T14:44:40Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Anyone know of someone jonesing for anything before 1985? Cheech and Chong recorded “Basketball Jones” on their 1973 album “Los Cochinos.” > [@](#): > > Yes, I am the victim of a Basketball Jones > Ever since I was a little baby, I always be dribblin’ > In fac’, I was de baddest dribbler in the whole neighborhood > Then one day, my mama bought me a basketball > And I loved that basketball > I took that basketball with me everywhere I went > That basketball was like a basketball to me ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/90 "2006-04-11T15:48:00Z")
I’m almost positive I first used the phrase “yeah, then you woke up” back in the early eighties. As in the story you’re telling is clearly dreamt up. I remember saying it to a guy in middle shcool who was telling this completely BS story about this girl. Later I heard it everywhere, not so much lately though. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/91 "2006-04-11T16:27:13Z")
I’m proud that my “Hack Bauer” is catching on over in CS. Were I brave enough to post on FARK or TWoP, I’d persue the spread of this term enthusiastically. ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/92 "2006-04-11T18:43:49Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > **Charger** , if Waylon Jennings was using the term “Baddies” on an extremely popular TV show, watched by millions of folks, why would you think YOU in particular were the one who popularized it in any arena? Well, I said it seems I was instrumental in its popular usage. I hadn’t encountered anyone using that term between 1984 and 2001. Now I hear it all the time. I certainly don’t take credit for inventing it, I have to give that where it’s due. I think a good portion of people claiming “I started that” is false. See? If I had just claimed to be the first guy to say “baddies” in online gaming, everyone would hold a parade in my honor. It was only used once or twice by Waylon Jennings in one episode. I helped popularize it. Now, don’t that throw your hat in the creek? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/93 "2006-04-12T01:59:12Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Remember the episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where Richard Lewis is convinced he started the phrase “The _blank_ from hell”? > > Obviously, that’s ridiculous, but who here can claim they started a phrase which got popular, at least in a local context? Ain’t no big thing, and not at all original, but I once led the “get fired up!” cheer during a high school pep rally into a new and thrilling phase with my clever reworking to “get fucked up!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/94 "2006-04-12T05:39:35Z")
> [@Stuffy](#): > > I’m almost positive I first used the phrase “yeah, then you woke up” back in the early eighties. As in the story you’re telling is clearly dreamt up. I remember saying it to a guy in middle shcool who was telling this completely BS story about this girl. My brother Mark was in elementary school in the early seventies, and I remember him uttering the retort “and then you woke up and had breakfast” in a situation echoing the one you describe. I’m not saying he invented the phrase, just that his use of it preceded yours. ---
**Author:** ![FenneF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c0e974/32.png) [@FenneF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FenneF)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/95 "2006-04-12T07:38:27Z")
I came up with “cockholster”, and have subsequently seen it around in a few places. I doubt I was the only one to do so however. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/96 "2008-02-11T19:31:42Z")
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517/97 "2008-02-11T19:44:02Z")
[QUOTE=TroubleAgain] deleted [/QUOTE] First time I’ve ever seen a zombie kill itself. 😃 Locking thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-that-yeah-that-was-me/347517.md?page=4)