OK, I figure I can jump on a bandwagon as well as the next guy.
What catchphrases do you use in everyday conversation? They can either be really common ones or phrases you use that no one else does.
Some of mine:
That’s gonna leave a mark.
That would gag a maggot (used whenever there is a bad smell or disgusting food being eaten)
Nuns wouldn’t pray for that guy (used on idiots or jerks)
My wife and I use the fist bump instead of high fives, along with phrases like “Yeah dog.” (I learned quite a few things like that from playing pickup ball in the inner city as a youth.)
And yes, I do throw out an occasional Boo-yah.
Well, shut my mouth. It’s also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling.
One I share with a friend of mine:
When one of us says something stupid, foolish, or obvious, the other one says “Slap-slap-slap” and mimes it with her hand; the one who said something stupid replies, “Ahhhhh.” Gets some interesting looks on a crowded subway.
I use a lot of catch phrase type things. I don’t ever recall hearing them, so I like to think I made them up. I probably have just forgotten where I heard them. They’re a little immature, as well. Bad company I keep.
A remark that angers me get a nice “Death to you” in a pleasant tone.
(I KNOW I heard this one somewhere else. Where?) “Quiet… you make me tired.”
And my personal favorite is the actually half-catchphraze/half-gesture. You flip the person off with both hands. Then you take your middle fingers and prop them up in a general “steeple” shape with the knuckles of the other fingers together. Diagram:
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And then you say, “You see this? This is the house where you can go f*** yourself.”
I’m really not as big a jerk as these make me seem.
Normally used when informed of things like:
“Congress votes for pay increase”
“Israeli/Palestinian talks stall”
“Uneasy peace in Ireland”
“Abused children emotionally scarred”
“Smoking bad for lungs”
etc.
But in this case, I am imagining Byzantine’s butt. Imagine that.
Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
Catch-phrases? I only speak in sound bites. But, here are a few favorites:
You’ll come for the crack. You’ll stay for the whore. (Said in response to any joke involving crackwhores.)
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard that, I’d be out five cents. (Said in response to anything harmless that could be taken sexually. A reference to my eternally single curse.)
Diverticulitis. (Said in response to anything resembling “Can I have a word with you?”)
And Shelby is not a bitch. (Said to agree with a sarcastic remark – Shelby really is a bitch.)
Also, my favorite stolen phrase: “Stay frosty.” (ReBoot.)
There are many more catch phrases I mean to start using, just accentuate the blinding aura of cool which surrounds me like hookah smoke around a sultan, but I always forget to start using them.
One of them is “Stay frosty”. You got it from ReBoot, Brainweasel? What’s ReBoot? I got it from Aliens. I have no idea what it means.
“That makes me wanna sing.” To deliver this one properly you should really emphasize the sibilance in “sing”. This one could be used in a number of situations; it is an ironic statement that something makes you very happy. As in, “Well, we have enough fuel to go exactly four miles, and there’s a gas station 3.9 miles away.” “Oh. Good. That makes me wanna sssing.”
When something’s really horrible, you say it’s “a party”. Emphasize the r. “Actually, that gas station is 4.1 miles away.” “Ooh, it’s turnin into a parrty around here.”
There are some other ones which are too obscene to post from work. I never use them anyway, I just made them up and then can never remember to put them in my pipe an ssmoke it. So to speak.
As a teacher, I have a lot of them but I mostly made them up.
“You don’t get your own line.” (to the student who is standing next to the line, but not in it.
“That’s something you need to do on your time. This is my time.” (I keep waiting for the would-be Spiccoli to say “If you’re here and I’m here and I’m here, isn’t this both of our time?” but it never happens <sigh>)
“You are allowed to study for your spelling test.” (to the student who consistantly gets poor grades)
“Just tell him you can’t talk right now.” (To the social butterfly that I know will tell me that the other person was doing the talking.)
–Gail
“Predictable, really I suppose. It was an act of purest optimism to have posed the question in the first place.” --John Cleese
And yeah, yeah, yeah… it’s another part of my butt fetish… so just, “Jump up my butt!”