# "No shirt, Shitlock!"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 23, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278 "2019-01-23T16:35:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/1 "2019-01-23T16:35:50Z")
Am I the only one who is absolutely _convinced_ that he came up this with on his own? Because I did. No shit, Sherlock!
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### Author:  [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/2 "2019-01-23T17:00:06Z")
I never heard it before. You’re good by me!
Dennis
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/3 "2019-01-23T17:45:26Z")
No ewe for soup!
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/4 "2019-01-23T17:49:13Z")
Aw! Soup to nuts.
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/5 "2019-01-23T18:09:01Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/6 "2019-01-23T20:28:20Z")
I’m convinced that I came up with _“Dumber than a box full of rocks.”_
Not that anybody believes me.
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### Author:  [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/7 "2019-01-23T20:52:16Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#):
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> 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 don’t think I’ve ever heard the phrase in the thread title - “no shirt, shitlock.”
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### Author:  [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/8 "2019-01-23T21:30:53Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/9 "2019-01-23T21:43:07Z")
Oops - my bad. Yeah - OP wants credit for “no shirt”, they can have it!
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/10 "2019-01-23T21:43:47Z")
> [@raventhief](#):
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> I don’t think I’ve ever heard the phrase in the thread title - “no shirt, shitlock.”
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.
> **[The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs](https://books.google.com/books?id=c0ZiqVnQju8C&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT481&dq=%22It%27s%2Bnot%2Bthe%2Byears%2Bit%27s%2Bthe%2Bmileage%22&hl=en)**
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> "You can't unring a bell." "It takes a village to raise a child." "Life is just a bowl of cherries." We sometimes think of proverbs as expressions of ancient wisdom, but in fact new proverbs are constantly arising....
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/11 "2019-01-23T21:48:16Z")
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.🙂
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/12 "2019-01-23T22:01:16Z")
I take full credit for “I have not yet begun to give up the ship!” Not that anyone ever say it.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/13 "2019-01-23T22:02:04Z")
Wife claimed ownership of “Man without God is like a fish without a bicycle.”
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### Author:  [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/14 "2019-01-23T22:53:48Z")
I don’t know if they coined it, but an in-law has “they’ve been married 25 years. 40, with the wind chill.”
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### Author:  [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/15 "2019-01-24T01:19:15Z")
> [@ioioio](#):
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> I’ve never before heard the “no shirt . . .” version.
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> 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.
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> My brother never claimed that it was his.
“With friends like that, who needs enemas?” I no doubt stole it from somewhere.
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/16 "2019-01-24T13:42:29Z")
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) 🙂
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/17 "2019-01-24T16:30:14Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/18 "2019-01-24T16:33:33Z")
I invented “Sometimes I get the feeling that everybody thinks I’m paranoid.”
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/19 "2019-01-24T18:35:47Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2019, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shirt-shitlock/828278/20 "2019-02-03T01:34:54Z")
I coined “Time wounds all heels.”
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