# Nonsense Expressions **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 29, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360 "2002-10-29T05:08:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![njufoic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@njufoic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njufoic)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/1 "2002-10-29T05:08:56Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/2 "2002-10-29T05:21:29Z")
“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 ---
**Author:** ![23skidoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f04885/32.png) [@23skidoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/23skidoo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/3 "2002-10-29T06:27:21Z")
“JEE-men-ightly” courtesy of my mom. I have no idea where she got this from. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/4 "2002-10-29T06:31:37Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/5 "2002-10-29T08:54:21Z")
“With synergy, our company can enter a new paradigm.” ---
**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/6 "2002-10-29T09:11:58Z")
Worthless bastages! lol @ **Bryan Ekers** ---
**Author:** ![partly\_warmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@partly\_warmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partly_warmer)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/7 "2002-10-29T09:13:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/8 "2002-10-29T11:56:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by partly\_warmer \* > **Bryan Ekers** , no more! I submit. Just tell me what the company wants. Why, to maximize customer value, of course. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/9 "2002-10-29T13:16:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\* > > Also: “rashen frashen” > > said mutteringly (huh?) I think that’s from an old 60’s or 70’s cartoon \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![Xerxes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/d2c977/32.png) [@Xerxes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xerxes)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/10 "2002-10-29T13:20:44Z")
> [@](#): > > Muggsey? Muttley? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/11 "2002-10-29T13:29:25Z")
Yeah, that could be it. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/12 "2002-10-29T13:43:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by partly\_warmer \* > \*\*Butter wouldn’t melt in her/his mouth. > > Never heard a convincing explanation for this. \*\* 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? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/13 "2002-10-29T14:27:55Z")
> [@](#): > > ## quote: > > Originally posted by NoClueBoy > Also: “rashen frashen” > > ## said mutteringly (huh?) I think that’s from an old 60’s or 70’s cartoon > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/14 "2002-10-29T14:59:14Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/15 "2002-10-29T15:36:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/16 "2002-10-29T19:53:01Z")
**NoClueBoy** , regarding the phrase “Great Googly Moogly”… For what it’s worth, the phrase appears in [Howlin’ Wolf’s recording of Goin’ Down Slow](http://www.furious.com/perfect/wolf/lyrics1.html) 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. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/17 "2002-10-29T20:00:29Z")
“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!” ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/18 "2002-10-29T21:46:41Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Rhum\_Runner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/19 "2002-10-29T23:12:12Z")
I have a friend whose favorite curse is “Jesus Christmas” He says it with such convicition. ---
**Author:** ![23skidoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f04885/32.png) [@23skidoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/23skidoo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360/20 "2002-10-29T23:13:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JuanitaTech \* > \*\*My mom used to say _jee me Christmas_ often. \*\* Very interesting… My mom says “Jiminy Christmas”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-expressions/134360.md?page=2)