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Derived from my own surname, is used to refer any word or phrase I’ve coined.
Such as:
Argle - A very mild expression of annoyance with just a hint of sheepishness at doing something slightly foolish. For example, posting a message without properly checking the content, or screwing up links and the like.
Baldwinesque - The quality of a film featuring one or more Baldwin brothers.
Here’s a new one, coined it just last week.
My little kitten, Taz, has been very sick lately. Last week he had diarreha (sp?) so bad that if you merely touched his belly his rear end would dribble (sorry for the visual)
This condition needed a term so I dubbed it “the drippy shits”. Thankfully, Taz is now over his case of the drippy shits.
chrisbar
The unique ways I say “shut up” (kind of sounds like “shuddup” through clenched teeth) and “shut the fuck up.” I have a few quotations as well, but they’re not really “catch phrases.”
Now, Tam, he’s another story. “Nothing, lovely weather, KOALAS! {whoosh!}” Don’t ask…
Esprix
“God Bless America Except For New Jersey and Utah”
–because Utah has Orrin Hatch and New Jersey has the New Jersey Turnpike
Boulderdash is what the Ramsey’s tell the police.
A Pestimist is someone who bothers you with their dreary outlook.
I… er “coined” the word sackie for the new Sacagawea dollar.
Hmmmm. A little confusion here. I thought I coined the word “sackie”, but I thought someone might call me on it, so I decided to get some proof. Surprise!
This was posted before I became a member, so I never saw it. Here’s my post:
So while I did coin the word insofar as I had never heard it uttered before, and as far as I knew I’d made it up, Arken beat me to it by a nearly a month.
So Arken and I both coined the word “sackie” independently.
While having a deep conversation while rather intoxicated my friend and I came up with the phrase:
"It's all relevant bollocks!"
meaning though everything may seem bollocks to you at some point it is relevant in the big scheme of things, or maybe that’s the other way round - who cares really!
Also I personally like the phrase
“Bless his cottons!”
I didn’t make that one up, just a shortening of bless his little cotton socks, but I like it!
When playing I-Spy when I was little I would say
“I spy with Michael eye!” instead of “I spy with my little eye!”
I made up the word “Pussybox” on a camping trip. I drew a box in the sand then wrote the word pussy in it. Then I put a dead carp inside this box. Then the word just came to me. It doesn’t have any set meaning. It is just something negative you can call someone.
collapsing off the plane from Paris and into the message boards again It is SO nice to be home!
jumping on-subject
After someone asks me, “Shall we (do something)?” I always reply, “Let’s shall.” It still confuses the living crud out of my friends.
I also had an annoying habit of insisting that “can’t” is a 4.5 letter word on account of the apostrophe a few years back.
I made up the phrase “terrifyingly bland” for this thread:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30190
But now I am afraid that someone has used this phrase before me, and I shall now be sued for intellectual property infringements.
Other phrases I made up:
The use of the word “donkey” as a synonym for “soul”, as in, “My donkey is screaming for mercy!”
There’s a rhyming phrase involving the word “duck” that I
use sometimes, but it’s kind of nasty.
I often refer to cats as “puppy rabbits” or “bunny dogs” sometimes, on the basis of a schema I had as a child, where common mammals fit on a continuum running from horse, to dog, to cat, to rabbit, to mouse. Any animal could be conceived of as a combination of its neighbors, so a dog could be a horse-cat. I was a strange child.
‘Gnarf’ for unpleasant person. It comes from dwarf and I don’t remember what.
‘Handmelon’ for American football. Hey, it’s played more with hands than feet, and with melon-like object instead of proper spherical ball, so…
I can’t remember if it was me or da spouse who coined these two, but as far as I know it was one of us:
Meanderthals are those folks who just wander around at the mall, drifting from one side to the other, blocking all available walkways and always managing to get into the only open space you plan to speed through.
Commutants are the same sort of people during rush-hour traffic–the ones who insist on driving in the HOV lane because, dammit, they have more than one person, even though they’re pacing the cars in the other lanes.
This one’s mine, AFAIK: “f***ies,” which is just a cute way of cussing when you’re annoyed about something. Works best when said in a squeaky little baby voice.
I’ve been “unbooting” my computer since, well I had use of a Commodore Pet - now I have a large portion of co-workers and friends who unboot thier computers.
I have coined the phrase,
“Framiliarity breeds.”
I coined “The Parking Lot Solution.”
Among any large organization (particularly a business), there are always individuals who have maxed out the Peter Principle, but who have friends in high places who let them have active jobs. Thus, they stand in the way of progress, but they are politically immune from dismissal.
Some associates were discussing one of these disturbing creatures one day, lamenting the fact that this clown was going to cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars between his dithering and his interfering.
When one cried that there was no way to remove him, I pointed out, “There is always the parking lot.”
Challenged as to my meaning, I explained, “he has to walk to his car each night, and all our brakes can’t function all the time.”
*We never implemeted the plan, but it became a watchword for idiots that could not be removed: *He’s only susceptible to the Parking Lot Solution.
I have recently been searching to see whether I coined the phrase “Nine Commandment Christian.” I do not remember having read it before I used it against some wild-eyed Creationist Fundie on the AOL/SDMB, but I don’t want to take credit for something I read and stored unconsciously.
Any references prior to Spring, 1998 would eliminate me as the author.
Sexual Orientation Disorder, or S.O.D., to refer to a certain lifestyle choice which I wont reveal because I like this forum and I dont want to get banned because a member of a favored group took offence.
I worked for a large consulting company, the grand-daddy of them all in fact, and eventually came to the conclusion that consulting was the second-oldest profession; however, I seem to be the only person who thinks this is particularly witty.