When someone says something I find bizarre, I’ll say (or think) **‘For why, Keats? For Why?’
When someone mentions ‘shock and awe’, I think **‘Leonard James Shockanawe’.
** The Italian Job (1969)
*** Star Trek, ‘Friday’s Child’
There’s an online food delivery company round these parts (DoorDash/UberEats style) called MenuLog, whose advertising slogan is “Did somebody say … MenuLog?”
For some reason I am unable to resist autocompleting this in my head as “Did somebody say … floppy disk with a hint of oregano?”
My daughter got it. Nobody else will…
Pretty much everything I post here. I got warned for at least two.
Oscar Wilde is dead.
I work in my family business. I’ve been working there (or at least been there on a regular basis), more or less, since I was born. From time to time, more often when I was young, someone would be talking to my dad and look over at me and say ‘someday this’ll all be yours’. I’ve heard that phrase hundreds of times in my 40 years. For many years, my go to reply was “The curtains?”. I think someone caught the reference once, maybe.
But the wallpaper remains.
I got it.
“I will now proceed to entangle the entire area”. I work in audio/video so I use this phrase quite frequently tho not in its original context.
Back in the mid-80s there was a beer commercial on the radio where a dad is about to give his son his first beer. The son makes a comment on the beer’s qualities and when the dad asks him how he knows that, the son replies, “Guys talk, word gets around, you hear things.” I’ve been using that line for over thirty years and I don’t think anyone has ever recognized it.
AD&D references are plenty in my speech “door of opening” but most people in my social group, except for us geeks who played it, won’t get it.
I refer to physical injuries as “taking hull points”, also from AD&D.
Whenever everyone is happy with something except one person, my wife and I say to each other “We cannot overturn the whole scheme to accommodate the buzzard.”
This is from the Diaries of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain. OR The Adventures of Mark Twain (as a derivative). Adam and Eve are still in the garden so there is no death. So everyone is happy except the buzzard. In the Claymation version, Eve tries without success to feed the buzzard celery. That mental image has stuck with me for decades.
In my family we tend to use the Private Eye parlance to refer to The Guardian newspaper as The Gruniad (so called because of their historic inclination towards typos getting through copy editing, as to be distributed in London on time the Manchester based paper had to rushed through the editing process)
I thought no one else did this but someone else casually used the term on Facebook the other day.
Whenever I hear anyone say “better late than never”, I always respond with “That’s what Dad said at Grandad’s wedding”. The few people that do get it usually have to think about that for a few seconds, then burst out laughing.
I stole it from author Barbara Hambly, she has written several of her own sword and sorcery fantasy series, and some Star Trek books.
Today a co-worker of mine said “guys talk, word gets around,” and I immediate added, “you hear things.” She had no idea why. She said her husband says “guys talk, word gets around” all the time. I let her know that whether he remembers or not, he got it from a beer commercial on the radio in the 80s.
I googled the phrase to see if I was mis-remembering, and came across your post. Glad I’m not the only one who remembers.
About 15 years ago, I sang “No Reply” by The Beatles at karaoke-- the Anthology version with all the screw-ups. “You were hand-in-hand with another man… YOUR FACE!” I did it specifically to crack up my sister; no one else was in attendance who probably got that reference, and the KJ looked at me like I was nuts.
Whenever I’ve repaired something or gotten something new, I always say, “Let’s take it for a test toast,” a la Homer Simpson in the Hallowe’en episode with the time traveling toaster. My wife ignores it, no one gets it; think I’ll stop using it? Hah!