# What do you say that no one else 'gets'? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660 "2010-07-22T23:47:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/1 "2010-07-22T23:47:35Z")
Everyone should get a chance for some cheap therapy, now that the Wisconsin folk here (“Dem dere guys from down by M’waukee, ain’a?”) have had [their turn](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=571178). But, hey, I got to tell my “_ **Bubbler** _” story: > [@](#): > > OH! Just remembered my quintessential Bubbler story. Next door neighbors asked a guard at the '64 New York World’s Fair where the “bubbler” was. > > All in one breath he fired off “ **Just past the corner there take a right and you can’t miss it and how are things in Milwaukee?** ” Now, I usually catch myself and use the much-less-efficient, and hoity-toitier, “Drinking Fountain”. But there have been cases where the cheese-curds-and-brats in my arteries have clouded my critical faculties and I’ve said The B Word. And man, does every conversation came to a grinding halt as scores of raised eyebrows swivel towards the interloper. I’ve seen it happen to a roommate from PA who asked if we should “_ **red up** _” after the party wound down. Or my wife’s sister from Seattle who referred to a guy as “_ **filthy** _”, meaning cool. She also orders a “half-skinny harmless wet with an addshot” (but that might just be a coffee snob thing, like her “Are you really ordering a **Why Bother**?”, meaning a decaf skim latte). So it’s your chance to relive those painful moments… like the time a friend visiting from another college said “ **Oh, oh. I just realized I accidentally blew off my History Prof last night.** ” And… silence. We had no idea he wasn’t discussing a creepy extra-credit policy. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/2 "2010-07-22T23:55:47Z")
“Silence is Golden. May your mouth be as 24 karats.” ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/3 "2010-07-23T01:00:10Z")
No one, but no one, gets any of the following three references (which are all from the exact same source): “Ham! Ham! _Ham!_” “More pie, Admiral?” “I’m a sweet little cupcake… _ **baked by the devil!** _” ETA: If anyone is ever able to provide a YouTube link to the source of these, I’d acknowledge their superiority in all things, forever. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/4 "2010-07-23T01:24:24Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > “I’m a sweet little cupcake… _ **baked by the devil!** _” You can find the WAV file for that one here: [WavSource: Television: Letterman 3 / Free Wav Files and Sound Clips](http://www.wavsource.com/tv/letterman3.htm) It’s the last one on the page. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/5 "2010-07-23T01:39:13Z")
Thank you masked man. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/6 "2010-07-23T01:47:13Z")
> [@digs](#): > > She also orders a “half-skinny harmless wet with an addshot” (but that might just be a coffee snob thing, like her “Are you really ordering a **Why Bother**?”, meaning a decaf skim latte). I’ve been tempted to order the Why Bother (at The Woods Coffee), since I actually like Splenda and skim milk. It’s just the decaf thing that stops me. (When I go there, I always get a large drip coffee.) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/7 "2010-07-23T04:58:03Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I’ve been tempted to order the Why Bother (at The Woods Coffee), since I actually like Splenda and skim milk. It’s just the decaf thing that stops me. (When I go there, I always get a large drip coffee.) So up Bellingham way they actually have “WHY BOTHER?” on the menu? That’s hilarious. In Seattle, it’s said – dripping with bile (and caffeine)-- of the tourists and yuppies who order “light” drinks. In the Wisconsonian thread, fiddlesticks said: > [@](#): > > I had to break the habit of saying “Tyme Machine” for ATM when I moved away from Wisconsin. (It stood for Take Your Money Everywhere and all the ATMs had the initials, and the appelation) So my response to that is that after decades in Madison, WI, I do ask where the “TYME machine” is, but every time I do, I’m always hoping someone will reply: “Over past the end of the bar. And if you’re visiting the Saxons, can you bring me back some mead?” ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/8 "2010-07-23T05:25:28Z")
I’ve gotten weird looks for saying ‘possums’ to mean ‘awesome’ (because they rhyme, you see. It started as ‘awesome possum’ and got shortened.) Also the phrase ‘eating the elephant’ from ‘how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time’. It’s for when you’re diligently plowing through those tasks you don’t want to. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/9 "2010-07-23T05:30:06Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > No one, but no one, gets any of the following three references (which are all from the exact same source): > > “Ham! Ham! _Ham!_” > > “More pie, Admiral?” > > “I’m a sweet little cupcake… _ **baked by the devil!** _” They pelted us with rocks and garbage! This, is a shoe. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/10 "2010-07-23T06:08:15Z")
Every time I log into my account to check my balance: “Tennis… spanking… BANKING!” Where is the cupcake one from? I’ve heard it before and it makes me giggle. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/11 "2010-07-23T06:55:32Z")
I remember the TYME machines from my days in grad school at Madison! Thanks for the mammaries. Whenever someone asks how I’m doing, I always say, “Swell.” Very, very, VERY few people recognize the Dirty Harry reference. Most just think I am hopelessly retro…TRM (which I am, by the way) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/12 "2010-07-23T12:51:52Z")
And I have celery for him! ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/13 "2010-07-23T13:02:22Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > You can find the WAV file for that one here: [WavSource: Television: Letterman 3 / Free Wav Files and Sound Clips](http://www.wavsource.com/tv/letterman3.htm) It’s the last one on the page. Nice. Not quite a YouTube link, but it’ll do. Thanks! Of course, after listening to that WAV file, I had to follow it up with a taste of [Peggy, the Foul-Mouthed Chambermaid](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_eDBITOvyk). ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/14 "2010-07-23T13:15:01Z")
> [@rolandgunslinger](#): > > Thank you masked man. I thought you were referring to Lenny Bruce, but that’s [Thank You Mask Man](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tjWYEMQ70w). Edit to add I just saw that that YouTube video gives it the wrong name. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2010, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/15 "2010-07-23T13:21:42Z")
Whenever I say my phone number, which is basicaly one digit, then three digits in numerical order, than a repeat of the last two digits plus the next numerical digit), I always add “cha cha cha.” Like (201) 123-234 cha cha cha) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/16 "2010-07-23T20:38:20Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Whenever I say my phone number, which is basicaly one digit, then three digits in numerical order, than a repeat of the last two digits plus the next numerical digit), I always add “cha cha cha.” Like (201) 123-234 cha cha cha) Why don’t I have friends that say fun stuff like that (as long as you wouldn’t think I was an idiot for constantly asking you for a reference)? The “cha cha cha” reminds me of our church (hang in there with me, all will be revealed…). This is a verrry high church (liturgy, robes, incense, looks like a cathedral) with neo-baroque music. I’m assisting, and standing between the Presiding Minister and our Quite Holy Music Director. Minister: The Lord Be With You. Congregation: And also with you. Minister: Let us pray. Music Director: Okay. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/17 "2010-07-24T02:03:30Z")
I’ve yet to, in real life, have anyone smile comprehendingly when I shrug and say, “Maybe it was Utah.” No doubt most everybody here gets the reference. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/18 "2010-07-24T02:12:08Z")
TWOooooooo DOLLLLAAaaaarrrrrrrssssss I can’t help it. Every time something regarding two bucks comes up, I have to say it. I’ve only had one person get the reference to Better Off Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/19 "2010-07-24T02:30:47Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > TWOooooooo DOLLLLAAaaaarrrrrrrssssss > > I can’t help it. Every time something regarding two bucks comes up, I have to say it. > > I’ve only had one person get the reference to Better Off Dead. You owe me two dollars! I use this one quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660/20 "2010-07-24T02:31:13Z")
We named our kitten Fenchurch. There’s only been one person we haven’t had to explain it to. But just for clarification: we are almost positive she was not conceived in the ticket queue at Fenchurch station. She is a North American kitty after all. We just thought it was a nice name for a dignified little gray tabby. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-say-that-no-one-else-gets/547660.md?page=2)