My 8th grade Algebra teacher, who has kept his title as “favorite teacher ever” so far, had an interesting expression that he would utter in moments of frustration:
Dogmeat Brazinski!
I have no idea where this originated, and I’ve never heard anyone other than him use it. But I picked it up, and six years later, I still utter it occasionally.
Anyone else use an atypical expression or catch-phrase that doesn’t really make sense and is not widely heard?
-Andrew L
“great googoolly moogoolly”
I think it’s a Zappa thing. Anyhoo, was saying it before that snickers commercial. Been around in my circle a long time
Also: “rashen frashen”
said mutteringly (huh?) I think that’s from an old 60’s or 70’s cartoon
“JEE-men-ightly” courtesy of my mom. I have no idea where she got this from.
My fave Physics teacher (Meeker… you’d think he’d be teaching chem…) used to always say ‘It’s a beautiful thing’… I get flashbacks when my friends start tossing that around…
“With synergy, our company can enter a new paradigm.”
Worthless bastages!
lol @ Bryan Ekers
Butter wouldn’t melt in her/his mouth.
Never heard a convincing explanation for this.
Bryan Ekers, no more! I submit. Just tell me what the company wants.
Why, to maximize customer value, of course.
Yep. That’s from Dick Dastardly, who was a Snidely Whiplash-kind of character, always trying to thwart the good guys, particularly the lovely Penelope Pitstop.
The “words” were spoken by his dog, Muggsey (?), who always had to do the dirty work; it went something like “rashenfashendickdastardly” - kind of a muttering-under-the-breath thing.
Muttley?
Yeah, that could be it. Thanks!
A person who acts very warm and friendly, but is very cold inside. So cold, ** butter wouldn’t melt in her/his mouth.** Get it?
I don’t know. It seems to me that the Warner Bothers cartoons used a sound like “rassafrassa” as a mock-curse back in the 1950s and 1960s. I suspect the Hanna Barbera cartoons lifted it from them.
“There is something aesthetically pleasing about the shiny side of a briquette.” An English teacher of mine in about 1984. I remember it, so it must be a catchphrase. It’s true enough.
Ok, here’s one: East Jibip(?), said when one is speaking of a location far, far, away. As in, “I had to park way out in East Jibip.”
I’ve never seen this in writing, so mebbe I’m misspelling it.
NoClueBoy, regarding the phrase “Great Googly Moogly”…
For what it’s worth, the phrase appears in Howlin’ Wolf’s recording of Goin’ Down Slow recorded in 1961 (scroll down to see the lyrics).
This pre-dates Frank Zappa’s recording of Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow, released in 1974.
That’s it. Nothing more to contribute. Carry on.
“Nanometers!!!”
This one’s got a weird history… GonzoGal and I once went to a theater chain aclled Mann Theaters. For a while, “Mann Theaters!!” became our expression of dismay, in place of “Oh, Man!” Somehow that morphed into “Nanometers!” Or sometimes “Tachometers!”
My mom used to say jee me Christmas often. I’ve said fricken’ fracken’ in lieu of cursing but I think that came from Yosemite Sam.
I’d heard people say ‘Wish in one hand…’ It wasn’t until last year that I heard the rest of it. I swear that drove me batty for almost a decade!
I have a friend whose favorite curse is “Jesus Christmas”
He says it with such convicition.
Very interesting… My mom says “Jiminy Christmas”.