# What catch phrases DO you like? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 18, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555 "2012-06-18T19:11:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/1 "2012-06-18T19:11:05Z")
Trendy or otherwise is fine. I like “joke’s on you” when it doesn’t really apply, as in, “Joke’s on you, highway patrol, because I’m not speeding.” ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/2 "2012-06-18T19:13:13Z")
I stick to the classics like “Pound Sand” or “FOAD” although there are a lot of times my grandaughter says, “That’s what she said”, that crack me up. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/3 "2012-06-18T19:40:09Z")
Right now I’m partial to saying “Look at that \!” followed by “I work out!” My kids hate it. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/4 "2012-06-18T20:41:26Z")
“\_\_\_\_\_ ALL the things!” It’s both a meme and a catchphrase, which originated on Hyperbole and a Half. The original was “Clean ALL the things!” It’s fun to say, just fill in the blank with any verb. It’s a meme lib! “Sit on it!” from Happy Days. I guess I haven’t heard it enough for it to get old. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/5 "2012-06-18T21:26:24Z")
:smack: I just posted this in the other thread where it probably didn’t belong: Son and friend came up with an idea to get rich, and his friend said, “We could make tens of dollars!” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/6 "2012-06-19T16:08:23Z")
“Give your head a shake!” Now morphed into " Give your head a wobble!" ---
**Author:** ![QuarkChild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c5a1d2/32.png) [@QuarkChild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuarkChild)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/7 "2012-06-19T16:21:58Z")
I don’t use it myself, but I like “bring it.” ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/8 "2012-06-20T16:01:41Z")
My new favorite [shirt](http://www.cafepress.com/mf/68150236/thats-what-she-said_tshirt)… ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/9 "2012-06-20T16:19:30Z")
I like “Say whaaaat?!” as said by Stewie Griffin. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/10 "2012-06-20T16:25:26Z")
“If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.” ---
**Author:** ![Celidin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Celidin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celidin)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/11 "2012-06-20T16:44:23Z")
My new favorite is “I heard that about you”, a variation on “that’s what she said!” I especially like to use it when it makes no sense whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![dngnb8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@dngnb8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dngnb8)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/12 "2012-06-20T17:05:24Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > I stick to the classics like “Pound Sand” or Wow, I use that all the time. I didnt even know others did. Others I use FUBAR - fucked up beyond all recognition PDU - poor dumb user Im laughing at you, not with you (for some reason, this one pisses people off) When people start any statement with “I think”, I will respond with, "I disagree with the first two words of your statement’. Most are confused when I say that too, ironic. Out of the gene pool please… ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/13 "2012-06-20T17:29:30Z")
About forty years ago, I watched a teleplay version of Kurt Vonnegut’s stories: [Between Time and Timbuktu](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068270/). I also had the book in script form, and toward the end, astronaut/poet Stony Stevenson is in NYC, and meets up with a bum. Stony tells the guy about his adventures in time and space, and the bum says, “That’s the saddest story I ever heard.” So sometimes, when someone tells me about their day, I’ll say, “That’s the saddest story I ever heard,” just to screw with them. Other times I’ll say, “Yes? And?” or “So what can we learn from that?” when they’ve finished their stories. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/14 "2012-06-20T17:32:25Z")
SOCMOB. Standing on corner, minding own business. It’s what my patients were always doing just before they got beaten/shot/stabbed by “these guys” etc. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/15 "2012-06-20T17:34:34Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.” I bet that goes over really well at your workplace 🙂 And who said doctors don’t have a sense of humor and good bedside manner? I’m half trying to keep the “let’s go down to the quarry and throw shit in there” one alive a but a certain poster here aint paying me enough. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/16 "2012-06-20T17:34:45Z")
Any time anyone asks me any question… “so it’s come to this.” After someone’s related a humorous anecdote, a beat after the punchline… “and then what happened?” ---
**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 20, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/17 "2012-06-20T20:41:49Z")
“Are we having fun yet?”. From Zippy the Pinhead. “Meanwhile, back at the ranch…”, when someone or something is taking its sweet time. Also, “Whenever the spirit moves you!” “My name is wartz?”, from Being John Malkovich. Always loved the perfect imagery of “barking up the wrong tree”. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/18 "2012-06-20T22:35:57Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I bet that goes over really well at your workplace 🙂 And who said doctors don’t have a sense of humor and good bedside manner? Note the thread title. I love hearing that one. I don’t think I’ve ever said it to a patient. But I’ve heard my patients say it hundreds of times by now. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/19 "2012-06-20T22:40:27Z")
“So that’s what the kids are calling it these days.” “If you know what you’re doing, it’s not an adventure.” “Guess I picked a bad week to quit drinking.” ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-catch-phrases-do-you-like/625555/20 "2012-06-20T23:59:49Z")
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