What popular phrases did you invent?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Elucidate your huggermuggery!

I am just dancing around my own ratiocination.

Practicing eudemonics with rancorous revenge. (usually followed by - “and what have YOU done today?” :dubious:

(There is/I heard/Go forth and create) An unwieldy kerfuffle in the sanctuary of total capitulation. :confused:

Did you get anything on your IQ test besides drool? (this one was coined by my bmf)
or - “he has intellectual slobber/drool” as I have

Don’t touch ‘the china’! The China" was coined by my daughter when referring to a vagina(when she was young I quizzed the kids one time “what do girls have that boys dont?” The China was her response!)

*I used to come up with some crazy & funny combinations with this one… such as “The China is reserved for special company only” “The China is a one-place setting… there are no others in this pattern” “No, you cant have your cake and eat it too on my China”

I use the first four randomly when gaming. It throws of the guys and it’s a good way to get their attention when I need to.

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This one works better verbally than in writing.

Y’know how sometimes you’ve had pretty mediocre sex, and the other person is looking at you with an expectant expression. You’re expected to give some sort of critique, and you don’t want to lie, but you also don’t want to hurt their feelings too much. So you go for ambiguously wry sarcasm:

“You really put the funk in ‘perfunctory’!”

I invented that.

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I came up with drunking, meaning to consume alcohol with the sole objective of getting plastered, sometime around 2001.

Urban Dictionary: Urban Dictionary: drunking (the first definition given is the one I posted, in 2003.

Google returns 62,000 hits! None on the first page are dated prior to 2005, so it’s mine, mine, all mine!

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it’s not popular yet, but I want to stake my claim.

We all know people with passive aggressive tendencies. Recently I accused my husband of being aggressively passive.

just remember you heard it here first. (unless you didn’t, but I hadn’t heard it anywhere else)

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I totally thought I came up with rocket surgery.

My favorite invented word, which has not yet caught on, is tentacular. I’m a fan of tentacled creatures, to such an extent that tentacular must be an adjective describing only the most fabulous nouns imaginable. A squid, for example, is tentacular. Chocolate ice cream, for example, is pretty cool, but not quite on the same level as a squid, therefore it isn’t tentacular.

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Here is a Usenet hit from 1995.

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Nope. It was me.

What’s funny is that one of my hobbies is model rocketry. Sometimes an adjustment or repair needs to be made, and often it involves some serious fiddling with or replacing tiny pasts. So it IS rocket surgery!

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Bah!

I’m sticking by my claim since it isn’t clear from the context that that isn’t a typo.

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When I was young a friend asked, “What’s up?”

I replied, “Livin’ the Dream”

My circle still says it all the time, I try to stay humble.

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Back in the early 90s it was all the rage to say “Haha, you’re so funny… NOT!” The thing was, my circle of friends had been saying that years before. I was convinced we started it. Not so. It had been traced to the 70s. It was used on MASH, in fact.

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Well, I just Googled my phrase “Chivalry was invented by an ass man” and got, umm, zero hits.

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Kramer?

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It took a while to figure out, but yeah, I’m totally stealing that.

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Nope - I came up with it no later than 1983. I could see him saying it though… :slight_smile: