Your personal catchphrases

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I just picked up a few from my friends in England:

“Chuck a Wobbler”. In a sentance, " Tiffany chucks a wobbler everytime someone messes her hair" defination: Goes crazy/bizerk. this one just cracks me up.

“Bob’s your Uncle” - the closest definition I can get for this one is it means, " Viola, it’s so easy." If I could get a clearer definition from one of our UKSDMB dopers, I would be appreciative.

Other phrases:

This one I’ve used ever since I watched one friend tell another friend the “devastating news” that Tears For Fears broke up: " And this effects your life, How?"

“I’ve got the lucky ticket”. Everytime I buy a lottery ticket ( from Willie Wonka.)

Whenever a skinny teenager in hiphuggers wisps by me; " Just wait until you get a desk job."

“Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.”

Whenever I see someone spazing out a little over home or car protection, I say,“Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.”

Whenever I have to give a review of a movie,
“I laughed, I cried. It was better than Cats.”

Or if someone asks me how the movie ended,
“The asterroid kills everyone except Bruce Willis in the end.”

When I hear a proud parent BRAGGING about little suzies incredible feats of baby-ness, I’ll say something like, " Well,MY son was hooked on phonics, but we took him to detox."
(very few ever get that one.)

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“You talked me into it, you silver tongued devil!” said in response to pretty much any generous, or interesting offer.

“This is an experiment, right?” said upon finding anyone engaged in an obvious futility.

“How do you know when you’re done?” an alternative to the above, especially upon a second or subsequent observation of the same futility. (Yeah, I tend to observe, and participate in a lot of futility.)

“That was a YES/NO question.” To interrupt explanations I don’t want to listen to.

“Cain’t” (This is accompanied by raising both hands, palms toward the person addressed, to the level of the shoulders, and shrugging. The accent is critical, and the intonation as well.) This is a final denial. No appeal will be considered, no further response will be forthcoming. I borrowed it from a most delightful young woman with Down’s Syndrome. Even though no one who hears this from me now days even knows her, they get the point, every time.

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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
– Casey Stengal

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“No more calls please, we have a winner!” - when someone particularly luscious is spotted

the “W” with the fingers thing from “Clueless”

when someone tells me something I couldnt care less about: “Whoop-de-shit” or “You have obviously mistaken me for somebody who gives a flying fuck.”

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“WOOHOO!”

“are you serious?”

Chief’s Domain - http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi

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“Goodnight everyone!” - ala David Letterman or Yakko Warner

“That’s a paddlin’” - Jasper from The Simpsons

“Oh just fine aaand dandy. Juuuust peachy.”

“geez louise”

“dagnabbit”

I’m also trying to get “Holy Zarquon’s Singing Fish!” from Hithchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy into regular usage but it’s not quite there yet.

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Shirley Ujest

“Bob’s your Uncle” is certainly in use here, and means ‘well, that will work’ (or similar).

I’m sure

a)there’s been a thread on this before

b) it’s a reference to someone (politician called Robert?) who gave his nephew a job

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“DOH!!!” Way before Homer Simpson, but at least everyone appreciates it more now.

“Bastards!!” Said in a sharp whisper whenever anyone tells me almost anything about someone.
E.g., “Is Dave or Lou here?”
“They’re out to lunch now”
“Bastards!!”

“Rarer than a diamond in a goat’s butt” – From my dad.

“Is it Cancer? Lupus?! It’s Lupus, isn’t it?!! Oh my God” – In anticipation of any negative information (Seinfeld).

Any appropriately applied quote from the movie “Sling Blade”
“Reckon I don’t know how ta go about it”
“It ain’t got no gas in it”
“Alright, then”

“Did you ever wake up,
Bullfrogs on your–
Bullfrogs on your–
I mean mind?
Did you ever wake up with bullfrogs on your mind?
That’s a sure sign you got bullfrogs on your mind.”
– Wm Harris

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Alllll righty then!

Rat bastard!

Of course! I live for this stuff! When asked, “Can I ask you a question?”

Inn’t it, though? Not a typo - it’s a mock-Cockney (probably pretty bad) accent, meant as Isn’t it? in response to the painfully obvious.

Thank you, Captain Obvious!

Thank you, Captain Non Sequitir

Penguins can’t fly!!! This is from the animated series The Critic (there was a penguin trying to pilot a plane). I just throw it out there in the middle of tense situations. Provides a dead stop to arguments whenever necessary.

**Anyway . . . **

That’s 'cause nobody’ll listen. My response to the generic “Can’t complain” after the “How ya doin’?” greeting.

La puerta esta abierta! From Seinfeld - the episode where George goes to the busboy’s apartment to apologize for getting him fired. Kramer leaves the door open, and the busboy’s cat gets out.

What would Brian Boitano do? Yes I am a South Park fan.

And so, having disposed of the monster . . .

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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My favorite is one that I got from my husband. He uses it when he feels I am usurping some kind of power or authority (usually when he’s adding “secret ingredients” to the sauce and I won’t leave the kitchen): “I’m fucking this dog, you just hold its tail”.

Others I like:

“Well, I’ll be dipped in shit.”

“It looks like a BOIL!”

And one my dad likes a lot, when showing appreciation : “Fuck you very much.”

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Another favorite of mine used when someone shares just a bit too much:

“Thank you for caring, fuck you for sharing.”

Oh, and TennHippie? Fuck you… and I really mean that! :wink:

Best!
Byz

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“Oh, groovy.” Sarcastic response. Should be spoken in a most underwhelmed tone.

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[ul][li]Ya think? (to an obvious statement)[/li][li]Rat vomit. (to any suggestion or idea that you know will never work)[/li][li]FkThatSht (said rapid staccato, means no)[/li]What a bonehead, what a headbone, what a skull![/ul]

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A whole slew of Paul Buchman-isms from the (alas, now off-the-air) “Mad About You,” including:

  1. Not so much.
  2. REALLY not so much!
  3. Not so good.
  4. What are you, kidding me? (note placement of comma)
  5. Not going to happen, my friend.

And one of my own making – or at least I can’t recall where I got it from – “A few tubes short of a full wireless set.”

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F**k me runnin’ - an old favorite

When someone burps - You cheated your ass out of that one.

Bad drivers cause me to say - Son of a F**kin Bitch.

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I didn’t mean no bad thang, George.
I don’t think his spinal cord is actually touching his brain.
You learn well, my young Padawan.
Fuck me in the goat ass!
Taint, taintalicious, taintman, taintarific, taintology, Taintalizer 4000.
Oona goota Solo? (In Greedo’s voice)
Jabba na wanna. (In Bib Fortuna’s voice)

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From watching “I Love Lucy” reruns, I’ve picked up “That’s all, brother!” used when someone exasperates me (usually in rush hour traffic).

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“help me understand” and
“You don’t say!”
are two of my more annoying faves

“Sorry, I’m just not myself today… Maybe I’m you.”
Chrome Toaster

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When you really mess up, you have “fucked the duck”. Derived from “screwed the pooch”, but rhymes.

When you are getting inordinately upset about something, you are “pissing out your eye sockets”.

Another way to describe inordinate upsetness is, “Emitting a seemingly endless stream of ectoplasmic white goo from ears and mouth”. I got that from a Bauhaus song “Of Lilies and Remains”.

If someone is pressuring you to overachieve and kiss their ass, and you’re willing to do the first but not the second, you say, “I’ll shit chocolate, but I won’t eat shit.”

An epithet, to be used synonymously with both “soul” and “buttocks”, is donkey. E.g., “Oh, you’re killing me! My donkey is screaming for mercy!” “Kiss my donkey.” “Look dude, cool it or I’m gonna kick your donkey.”

I don’t want to make people think like me, I want them to think like me of their own free will.

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When someone you don’t usually agree with says something right”
“Even a busted clock is right twice a day.”

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“As you know, dear, your happiness is my foremost concern,” used on Mrs R fairly frequently.