“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.
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
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”
[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.
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.”)
