Am I the only one who is absolutely convinced that he came up this with on his own? Because I did. No shit, Sherlock!
I never heard it before. You’re good by me!
Dennis
No ewe for soup!
Aw! Soup to nuts.
Well, if you did, you must have told it to whoever told all the people I’ve heard saying it all my life - both in person and in books, film, etc.
I’m convinced that I came up with “Dumber than a box full of rocks.”
Not that anybody believes me.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard the phrase in the thread title - “no shirt, shitlock.”
I’ve never before heard the “no shirt . . .” version.
When my brother and I were children, my mother believed that my brother had invented the expression “With friends like that, who needs enemies?” Mom was enormously proud of brother’s cleverness and told many people about it over a period of years.
My brother never claimed that it was his.
Oops - my bad. Yeah - OP wants credit for “no shirt”, they can have it!
Neither have I. As far as I’m concerned, you can claim creatorship. But it looks like some people would dispute this with you.
My own wife, Pepper Mill, claims to have come up with “It’s not the years; it’s the mileage”, and that she was using it long before Raiders of the Lost Ask. Looking on Google Books, though, I find that it was used (in the same context) in 1957. So I guess she either picked it up without realizing it, or independently invented it.
I claimed I invented knock-knock jokes. My kids believed me for many years. They may still believe. I’m gonna try it on my grandkids and see what happens.
Yeah, OP you can have the ‘no shirt, shitlock’, fine with me.
I take full credit for “I have not yet begun to give up the ship!” Not that anyone ever say it.
Wife claimed ownership of “Man without God is like a fish without a bicycle.”
I don’t know if they coined it, but an in-law has “they’ve been married 25 years. 40, with the wind chill.”
“With friends like that, who needs enemas?” I no doubt stole it from somewhere.
At some point, my preferred expletive became “Jesus fuck!” Not sure if I got that from anyone, but don’t recall many other folk saying that (at least not in polite company)
I always thought the expression “Have a good day” was stupid. I’ve never had a totally good day in my entire life. So I started telling people “Have a good one.” No matter how shitty a day gets, there’s always something good in it.
I hear that saying a lot now, and I’m taking credit for it.
Have a good one, folks.
I invented “Sometimes I get the feeling that everybody thinks I’m paranoid.”
I don’t *recall *hearing the expression “flipping burgers” (meaning a low paying job, in case that isn’t obvious)before I said it to an English guy I was dating back in the late 80s. He thought it was hilarious - I don’t know if he thought I’d come up with it myself - but when I went to visit him in his hometown, he had all his friends saying it.
And, not that it’s caught on or anything, but recently I was venting about something and “what really fillets my fish is . . .” came out of my mouth from seemingly nowhere.
I coined “Time wounds all heels.”