# Phrases that make you think "Straight Dope"! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 15, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807 "2014-06-15T04:56:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/41 "2014-06-16T22:20:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “Woo! I am masturbating like a motherfuck!” > [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > That’s one I hear especially often in real life. It doesn’t count when you say it yourself! ---
**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/42 "2014-06-16T23:48:56Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > “Hi, Opal!” \ ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/43 "2014-06-17T02:05:33Z")
> [@jharvey963](#): > > \ +1 ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/44 "2014-06-17T03:04:40Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > “Stabby.” Good one! This word should enter the general English vocabulary. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/45 "2014-06-17T04:32:02Z")
Who among us can see a product labeled \*\*“0g Trans Fat” \*\*with the same eyes as before? Not I, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/46 "2014-06-17T12:20:51Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Who among us can see a product labeled \*\*“0g Trans Fat” \*\*with the same eyes as before? Not I, that’s for sure. Wow - been seeing that username for years, never once realised from whence it originated - until now, thanks! In terms of the OP, another good example not yet mentioned is “whoosh” - occasionally comes up IRL, and I always think of the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/47 "2014-06-17T15:21:48Z")
Tactical pants ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/48 "2014-06-17T16:05:48Z")
“I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned…” Side note: I think “hilarity ensues” originated at _Fark_ before it made its way here. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/49 "2014-06-17T16:11:00Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Side note: I think “hilarity ensues” originated at _Fark_ before it made its way here. Oh, “hilarity ensues” is part of the language and has presumably been so since the olden days. It’s just the penis variation that we claim as our own. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/50 "2014-06-17T17:34:32Z")
Gotcha ya (which, admittedly, I don’t hear often, but when someone says “gotcha” in a smug way, I mentally add the “ya”) Did you force evolve opposable thumbs to post in this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/51 "2014-06-17T19:05:00Z")
Just to have mentioned it, has anybody thought of going back to the oldest threads (that haven’t been aroused from their zombiedom) to look for the earliest utterance that has since become one of those unique-to-SDMB things? ---
**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:** [June 18, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/52 "2014-06-18T14:03:20Z")
Recently in the [Made-Up, False and Flat-out Wrong Trivia Dominoes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=721419) thread, someone used the phrase “chuck pumpkins.” I thought that was the funniest name I’ve ever heard, and the thread turned into a bunch of trivia of good old “Charles Sylvester Marigold “Chuck” Pumpkins.” I’ll never hear the words “chuck” or “pumpkins” without laughing again. ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/53 "2014-06-18T15:14:32Z")
Snarky ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/54 "2014-06-18T15:20:14Z")
Unca (anybody) makes me think of The Master. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/55 "2014-06-18T17:03:41Z")
Buckeye. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/56 "2014-06-19T14:15:22Z")
55 posts and no mention of [sheep](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=333640)? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/57 "2014-06-19T14:18:07Z")
After yesterday, I realized “Cameroon” makes me think of SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/58 "2014-06-19T15:08:26Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > 55 posts and no mention of [sheep](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=333640)? Or Ice-blue jelly dongs either. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/59 "2014-06-19T17:21:37Z")
I just mentioned “cow-orker” in a post and got a reply that it is a funny typo. I clarified that it’s not a typo but one of them there “SDMB Meme thingies” I saw ages ago. It’s second nature to me now not to refer to that other archaic term even in “serious” correspondence. I even _say_ it like that! ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807/60 "2014-06-19T19:52:49Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I just mentioned “cow-orker” in a post and got a reply that it is a funny typo. I clarified that it’s not a typo but one of them there “SDMB Meme thingies” I saw ages ago. It’s second nature to me now not to refer to that other archaic term even in “serious” correspondence. I even _say_ it like that! Cow-orker goes way back. I remember seeing it when I started reading the snopes board around 1998. I read somewhere once that it began several years before that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-make-you-think-straight-dope/690807.md?page=2)