# I wish I had a buck for every time I heard the phrase... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 18, 2002, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496 "2002-12-18T06:05:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/1 "2002-12-18T06:05:21Z")
Weapons of mass destruction ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/2 "2002-12-18T06:07:24Z")
“Stop that or you’ll go blind!” ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/3 "2002-12-18T06:07:53Z")
What are those? ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/4 "2002-12-18T06:29:45Z")
It always makes me think of that episode of \ South Park \ with Johnnie Cochoran’s “Look at the monkey” defense. Keeping America Paranoid. Bush must be very frustrated that Saddam seems to be playing along. He needs this war to get re-elected, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/5 "2002-12-18T07:07:03Z")
You’re FIRED! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/6 "2002-12-18T14:11:43Z")
“Amazing.” People use the word amazing when they mean “cool”, or “pretty”, or “interesting”. These words are not interchangeable!!! You do not have the most “amazing” hairdo. You didn’t read the most “amazing” article. STOP WITH THE AMAZING ALREADY! ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/7 "2002-12-18T14:15:07Z")
Daddy, can I have some money? ---
**Author:** ![Stccrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Stccrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stccrd)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/8 "2002-12-18T14:16:05Z")
“Word.” ---
**Author:** ![smam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@smam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smam)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/9 "2002-12-18T14:49:56Z")
“quite literally” And its always used in the wrong way, like someone will say to me " So I was out shopping and I seen this thing, and I quite literally bought it there on the spot" And I`m thinking, hey it’s just as well you used the phrase ‘quite literally’ there, because if you had just said “So I was out shopping and I seen this thing, and I bought it there on the spot” then I would have took that to mean that you went home, thought about buying it for a bit, went back to town, had some lunch and then ran as fast as you could to the shop to buy the thing only stopping once to pat a dog by quite literally using your hand in a stroking type motion on the dogs back…NOT!! ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/10 "2002-12-18T15:09:41Z")
“Sir, I’ve already asked you once…” Seriously, the title of this thread is going to make some great Sequential Thread Pairs. Right now you’re getting a buck every time you hear the phrase, “Lesbians chosen high school’s ‘cutest couple.’” ---
**Author:** ![Ashkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/11 "2002-12-18T15:12:33Z")
These buffalo wings taste like chicken. Just teasing I only heard it once but it took everything I had to smile and say yes your right they do taste like chicken. Then I went in the back and laughed my butt off. ---
**Author:** ![Rug\_Burn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rug\_Burn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rug_Burn)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/12 "2002-12-18T15:25:09Z")
“Make no mistake about it,…” :mad: :wally Ashkicker: I read that as, “these buffalo wings taste like children.” Then I was somehow glad that you’d only heard it once. :smack: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/13 "2002-12-18T15:26:28Z")
1. “With no disrespect,” means really means “I think you are full of it” 2. “I literally died laughing,” which really means “I figuratively died laughing” 3. “I go to the gym religiously,” which really means “I go to the gym regularly” ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/14 "2002-12-18T15:28:33Z")
“Put your clothes back on, you damned freak.” ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/15 "2002-12-18T15:28:46Z")
“Think inside/outside the box.” Whoever came up with this increasingly trite cliché deserves a swift, hard kick in the crotch. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/16 "2002-12-18T15:54:48Z")
“I wish I had a buck for every time I heard the phrase…” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mallen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@mallen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mallen)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/17 "2002-12-18T16:07:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slortar \* > \*\*“Put your clothes back on, you damned freak.” \*\* :o If I have to tell you one more time you’re going to get a spanking. ---
**Author:** ![Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knighted_Vorpal_Sword)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/18 "2002-12-18T16:08:52Z")
“It’s not fair” - heard several times a day from my kids (one in particular). ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/19 "2002-12-18T16:11:43Z")
“Sir, you’re making a scene.” ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496/20 "2002-12-18T16:21:51Z")
“cheer up! it might never happen!” IT ALREADY HAS YOU BASTARD! THATS WHY I’M MISERABLE! _sigh_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-buck-for-every-time-i-heard-the-phrase/143496.md?page=2)