I called my sister a mindless p’takh last week.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Klingonese#petaQ (Apparently the writers for Trek can’t agree on a spelling for the word.)
“Khaleesi” became a thing that women called themselves and each other during Game of Thrones’ heyday, and apparently was even a semi-popular baby name for a short while.
No staying power there, though.
Using the phrase “nuke it from orbit” to mean absolutely obliterating your problem with overwhelming force or effort is a bastardization of Ripley’s line from the James Cameron movie Aliens. Plaintively moaning “game over, man, game over!” echoes Bill Paxton’s character Hudson in the same film.
I agree with this. The ‘unobtainium’ on Pandora would have been discovered by the first explorers, some time before the events of this movie: I would hazard a guess that these explorers would have had a scientific sense of humour, and named the material as a joke.
Remember, unobtainium is not found anywhere in the Earth’s Solar System, and can’t be manufactured by Earth tech; to get it you have to go all the way to another star. This is good worldbuilding, not lazy writing. Not everything about Avatar is good worldbuilding (why do the animals have six legs, and the Na’vi have only four limbs?) but this is one of the better bits.
Yes, asked by Steve Allen on January 18, 1953. And the question stuck.
“Saying the quiet part loud” comes from a 1995 “Simpsons” episode.
Missed it by that much.
From Friends: Chandler’s “Could I be anymore . . .?” and all its variations.
MILF was used in the film American Pie from 1999. I had never heard the term previous to that. John Cho played a random kid (credited as “MILF guy”) who both used and explained the term as he referred to Stiffler’s Mom.
In The Forbidden Zone, there’s “Banana Royal”.
Monty Python - “splunge”, “nudge, nudge” “my hovercraft is full of eels”, “and now”, “I’d like to complain”, “my brain hurts”, “just a flesh wound”, “'tis but a scratch”.
“Liger” - Napolean Bonaparte
Sure, they’ve been around before the movie, but for anyone who’s seen BP, that would be ground zero for ligers.
De Niro and Shepherd hashing out “organizize” (?) in Taxi Driver:
And while “brass balls” has probably been around for as long as the metal has existed, I think it’s safe to say that Alec Baldwin somewhat upped its game in Glengarry Glen Ross
Nitpick: Napoleon Dynamite
There were already “poobahs”, but I believe that the Flintstones introduced “Grand” poobahs. And I believe Laugh-in coined “sock it to me”.
You bet your bippy they did.
ACK - headsmack.
Guess I was gettting it mixed up with Petain Foshizzle.
Don’t feel bad - I’ll bet you’ve got great bow-hunting skillz.
Far from it. Long in use, they were taking advantage of it’s recent appearance in a little Aretha Franklin ditty spelled R-E-S-P-E-C-T. The traditional meaning of ‘sock it’, blunt unadorned speech, took on a sexual aspect. The style of the 60s was to pretend such innuendo did not exist to avoid explaining what it meant and Laugh-In took great advantage of that.
“What’s it for?”
“Why, nothing. Nothing. That’s the beauty of it.”
- Burke’s Law
And last but not least, “Ni” As in the Knights Who Say.
“That rug really tied the room together.”
I’ve seen MAS*H several times on TV and they occasionally mention “meatball surgery”. I assumed this was a commonly used phrase. Inspired by the Frank Burns thread I just finished the book it came from. A line in the book implied that this phrase was only used by those “in the swamp”. A search on the internet shows that “meatball surgery” may have been coined by the author of the book. But, I don’t know… just going by what I read.