# Personally trademark phrases **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 1, 2002, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-trademark-phrases/111876 "2002-06-01T11:19:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![haardvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@haardvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/haardvark)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-trademark-phrases/111876/41 "2002-06-05T00:29:09Z")
(in response to a thanks for some small favour): “Hey, it was almost the least I could do”. (in describing an inactive person, particularly at work): “That guy is remarkably talented at keeping his chair from flying up in the air”. (in trying to “help” someone remember something stuck on the tip of their tongue) [john cleese voice]"…yes, plenty of time, just…sing it…ah, yes…come now…here it comes…sing it out…the ca? the caaaa?.."[/john cleese voice] That last one gets me smacked from Mrs 'vark sometimes.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-trademark-phrases/111876/42 "2002-06-05T05:14:18Z")
Two more husbandisms… When describing an effort in futility… …“it’s like pissin’ on a house fire.” When describing someone he doesn’t like… …“If he were on fire, I wouldn’t piss on him to put him out.” hmmmm…is there a trend here? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-trademark-phrases/111876/43 "2002-06-05T07:47:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Barrett \* > \*\*“Let’s went.” A popular saying of my grandfather’s when leaving the premisis was taking longer than he liked; \*\* LOL! My father used to say that all the time. ---
**Author:** ![S.Mussberger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@S.Mussberger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/S.Mussberger)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-trademark-phrases/111876/44 "2002-06-05T12:45:59Z")
“Don’t dig up the corpse man … just let it rest - in - peace” I only use this amongst friends. It handy when some one tells a story that utterly fails to wow or get a laugh and then proceeds to try and tell the same thing again or explain the funny part better. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-trademark-phrases/111876/45 "2002-06-05T13:19:45Z")
When someone says something BLINDINGLY obvious: “No shit, Sherlock!” “De-owr” (alternately spelled “dier” and “dyr”, usually two syllables) for those situations when it would be very appropriate for an anime-style oversized sweatdrop, or for an anime-style fall-to-the-floor-with-legs-sticking-up-in-the-air thingamabob (I’m not making any sense, am I?) It’s something of a local colloquialism, though. Whenever someones says “Wassup?”: “Up is the opposite of down” (often followed by a “Wassdown?” which earns “Down is the opposite of up :p”) “In one ear and out the other”, with appropriate motions. Not very original, but my friends like it… especially when describing a very clueless person. Also, peering into a friend’s earhole: “I can see {insert object on the other side of head} from here!” I’ve also picked up “dreck” from this very messageboard, earning blank stares whenever I use it 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EchoKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EchoKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EchoKitty)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-trademark-phrases/111876/46 "2002-06-05T14:12:54Z")
I knew a guy who, when a situation became out of hand and uncontrollable, would say to his friend, “Hold 'er, Newt. She’s gonna buck!” ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-trademark-phrases/111876/47 "2002-06-05T14:13:13Z")
When challenged say like " i can take you one handed " My response is you what army and whos version of god ? I like piss off when someones being annoying The one got me kicked out of class is "piss in your fathers saggy cunt " My eventual cousin in law hates when i play video games around my 2 year old nephew cuase he lears some “colorful” phrases ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-trademark-phrases/111876/48 "2002-06-05T14:30:13Z")
Cock-a-hula-f\*\*king-HOOPS! Your face, my arse. (insert rude word here) on toast. My family have a lot of catchphrases from the National Theatre of Brent’s parody French Revolution drama, including “Do you want any more hot in, Jean-Paul Marat?” “This is the Pointy Tree Garden” “which is synon… synononob… snynob… synonononononon” ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-trademark-phrases/111876/49 "2002-06-05T15:04:45Z")
[hijack] **Tansu** - Good evenin’. Thank you Desmoooond.[/hijack] Re the OP - From my nan, I learned to say “Jesus wept and Mary held the bucket”. It is said when one is shocked and must be pronounced in an Irish accent. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-trademark-phrases/111876/50 "2002-06-05T15:37:09Z")
**Christ on crack!™** I use it in exasperation. It was originally the name of a short-lived, not-very-good band from Pittsburgh in the late 1980s. (Don’t go looking for any albums; I don’t think they ever cut one. I never actually saw them; I only know about them because I went to college with the brother of one of the guys in the band. But everyone I’ve ever talked to who’s seen them has said, “They suck.”) ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-trademark-phrases/111876/51 "2002-06-05T20:32:48Z")
“Judas Priest!” – my Southern Baptist aunt’s exclamation. For stupid people: “She’s so far short of a six-pack that she doesn’t even have the plastic thingy it came in.” “Lights are on; nobody’s home.” For my own absent-mindedness: “Mind like a cotton sock.” “Lifestyles of the Easily Distracted.” “I’m confused–again!” (accent on the ‘again’) ---
**Author:** ![BurglarGenie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BurglarGenie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurglarGenie)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-trademark-phrases/111876/52 "2002-06-05T21:35:33Z")
When people can’t find something that is right where it is supposed to be or in plain sight: “ssssssss, OW!” because if it had been a snake it would’ve bit them. ---
**Author:** ![ezra\_brooks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/13edae/32.png) [@ezra\_brooks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ezra_brooks)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-trademark-phrases/111876/53 "2002-06-05T23:22:11Z")
Thanks stockton, I had a boss once that if he caught you blowing smoke he would say LBHW ( Lost Ball in the High Weeds ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-trademark-phrases/111876.md?page=2)