# Odd things we do **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 17, 2000, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-we-do/14866 "2000-03-17T21:17:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GOD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/34f0e0/32.png) [@GOD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GOD)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-we-do/14866/1 "2000-03-17T21:17:00Z")
Ya know how on _Seinfeld_ Jerry will clench his fist and grit his teeth and say: “Newman!” when the fat bastard has pulled a fast one? Well, when I am at work and some unknown person has done something stupid that fucks with my day, I clench my fist, grit my teeth, and mutter: **"Newman!"** Anybody else? ---
**Author:** ![Spliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@Spliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spliffy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-we-do/14866/2 "2000-03-17T21:21:00Z")
I thought you would rain thunderbolts down on thine’s head [![](http://www.zeropages.com/smileys/lm_s019.gif) ](http://www.zeropages.com/smileys/lm_s019.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-we-do/14866/3 "2000-03-17T21:21:00Z")
How about screaming out your name during sex? ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-we-do/14866/4 "2000-03-17T21:23:00Z")
Screaming out your own name? * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-we-do/14866/5 "2000-03-17T21:26:00Z")
In your face, Sue! Beat ya to it! ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-we-do/14866/6 "2000-03-17T21:55:00Z")
I actually do something similar. Whenever someone I know is going on a trip somewhere, I’ll say to them “Bring me back something French.” Doesn’t matter where they are going, I still say French. It’s a line from Home Alone, the little annoying neihbor boy says as everyone heads to the airport. * * * I like it here-can I stay? And do you have a vacancy for a Back-scrubber? ---
**Author:** ![SingleDad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@SingleDad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleDad)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-we-do/14866/7 "2000-03-17T22:19:00Z")
I say a lot of stupid things. I’m well known for it. For instance, when we’re about to re-enter a building I say, “let’s become simultaneous and coincide.” ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-we-do/14866/8 "2000-03-17T23:27:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried: > **How about screaming out your name during sex?** > [@](#): > > Originally posted by psycat90: > **I actually do something similar.** ## hmmmm… “You have no choice but to be impressed.” Tony Rothman and George Sudarshan _Doubt and Certainty_ ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-we-do/14866/9 "2000-03-18T01:59:00Z")
I’m known for saying “God Damnit!” a la Adam Sandler. Teeth clenched, eyes wide open, accent on the “damn” portion, in a sort of a growl. Whenever I get pissed at something (1000 times a day) I say this and it…well…it just gives me that warm, fuzzy feeling… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-we-do/14866/10 "2000-03-18T02:27:00Z")
Everything I do is odd. I talk to myself in silly voices, that’s bordering on madness. * * * [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - **Shadow of the Pigeon** - Weirdo of the Night ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-we-do/14866/11 "2000-03-18T02:34:00Z")
“That guy must really hate these cans!” Every now and then I’ll say that line (from The Jerk) just because I think it’s funny. Same as “He’s skiing on one ski!” from Better Off Dead. But the one no one ever gets is when I use (in an appropriate context) something to the effect of “he drops us like a newborn giraffe – kerplop!”, a line Terk said in Tarzan. and one I picked up this past weekend: “can’t sleep clown will eat me can’t sleep clown will eat me . . .” from The Simpsons but all of those are just for kicks. * * * Mayor of [Snerdville](http://fathom.org/snerdville), the home of Mortimer Snerd “I’m just too much for human existence – I should be animated.” –Wayne Knight ---
**Author:** ![crackwise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@crackwise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crackwise)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-we-do/14866/12 "2000-03-18T06:43:00Z")
Since I have a young toddler at home is just learning words, I’ve decided I need to stop cursing (goddamnit comes out of my mouth way too often. fuck - not as much unless I’m pissed off). Anyway, I’ve begun replacing every curse word with the word **smurf**. It makes things quite hilarious. Mothersmurfer Smurf it Smurf you Smurfhead Since it sounds strange, I’ll laugh when I say it, and now I’m not as tempted to swear. I’m sure it will get very annoying in about a week and I’ll quit. Or maybe I’ll have a son who goes off to nursery school calling his friends smurfholes. Won’t I be proud? 😃 * * * ~handcrafted signatures since 1975~ ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-we-do/14866/13 "2000-03-18T15:00:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Daniel: > \*\*“That guy must really hate these cans!” > > Every now and then I’ll say that line (from The Jerk) just because I think it’s funny. > \*\* Everytime I receive a new phone book, I say the line “The new phone books are here!! The new phone books are here!! I am somebody now!” from the same movie. * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature!