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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
/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. 
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?
[Al Gore]
I invented the internet.
[/Al Gore]
Cheech and Chong recorded “Basketball Jones” on their 1973 album “Los Cochinos.”
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.
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.
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?
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!”
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.
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.
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First time I’ve ever seen a zombie kill itself.
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