Obscure things you say, knowing most people won't know the source
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Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
My son does, however, know about "Where's The Beef?" - something I still say once in a while. He knows about it (again) because of Bloom County
One of my supervisors at the post office often said "Allow me to give you a hearty handclasp" when one of the clerks or carriers bragged about something. I knew where the line came from. I don't think anyone else did. In the 1940 W.C. Fields comedy The Bank Dick, after Egbert Sousé (Fields) accidentally thwarted a bank robbery, the bank manager offered him a job.....and a "hearty handclasp."
When I started at my company back in the 80s, we had a great female department manager, which was quite rare back then. Anyway, she was a large woman, and also a busy woman. One day a coworker was meeting with her in her office, while her lunch was heating-up in the microwave. They were engaged in a work conversation when the microwave finished with a "BING!". She immediately said to the coworker, "Well, gotta go", and kicked him out of her office so she could have her lunch.
Ever since then, whenever one of us needed to get out of a conversation, we'd say "Bing... gotta go!".
Ever since then, whenever one of us needed to get out of a conversation, we'd say "Bing... gotta go!".
I love things like that. I have a bunch.
One is our current (but retiring soon) CFO. He would stand at the window over the parking lot with a big grimace at 3:25pm and see who was leaving five minutes early. Then he would start his lunch 45 minutes early the next day, saying "I'm off to lunch." One of the people who used to cover reception was named Maureen. So now every time some hypocrite (who passes off work to others, leaves early, takes long lunches, etc) is criticizing someone else for making an honest mistake or not being able to handle an impossible workload, (pretending to be them) we use the phrase "I'm off to lunch, Mo' "
One is our current (but retiring soon) CFO. He would stand at the window over the parking lot with a big grimace at 3:25pm and see who was leaving five minutes early. Then he would start his lunch 45 minutes early the next day, saying "I'm off to lunch." One of the people who used to cover reception was named Maureen. So now every time some hypocrite (who passes off work to others, leaves early, takes long lunches, etc) is criticizing someone else for making an honest mistake or not being able to handle an impossible workload, (pretending to be them) we use the phrase "I'm off to lunch, Mo' "
Okay I'm sure I've said this on the DRC before but my grandmom on my mom's side used to always use the term and I never met the woman. She died before I was born but it lived through my mom and now through me...
She used to always use the term
" A wart on the ass of progress"
Like Clarence Thomas voting against gay marriage is a wart on the ass of progress... That's just an example.
Anyway, I don't really use that in day-to-day life but when I'm talking to both of my aunts... My grandmother's two daughters besides my mom, I do work the term in and they get a kick out of it.
She used to always use the term
" A wart on the ass of progress"
Like Clarence Thomas voting against gay marriage is a wart on the ass of progress... That's just an example.
Anyway, I don't really use that in day-to-day life but when I'm talking to both of my aunts... My grandmother's two daughters besides my mom, I do work the term in and they get a kick out of it.
Oh that's interesting. I never heard it ended with anything but progress. I thought it was like a '50s working class philly girl type saying.
Can you believe I have occasionally been told I'm annoying? It's true. I always respond with "I'm not annoying – you are!" The line comes from Annoying Girl, a character played by Allisyn Ashley Arm in several sketches on the Disney Channel series Sonny With A Chance (2009-11) and So Random! (2011-12).
There are a lot of good lines from that movie.
”Money goes to his head.”
”220, 221…..whatever it takes.”
”I was never in aisle 12!”
”Money goes to his head.”
”220, 221…..whatever it takes.”
”I was never in aisle 12!”
I just started a new thread and this was in the suggestions at the bottom of the screen so it got me thinking....
I have zero ties to Italian people but my family has always used the word AGITA for a heartburn. I was a teenager before I understood that people saying heartburn were saying they had agita.
And this one is not as good because I had a ton of ties to Jewish people for my entire upbringing but oi yoi yoi was a common phrase to express dismissive upsetness at something being stupid or stressful.
I don't say it all the way anymore but I say oi all the time still today. I probably say it about five times a week on average.
I have zero ties to Italian people but my family has always used the word AGITA for a heartburn. I was a teenager before I understood that people saying heartburn were saying they had agita.
And this one is not as good because I had a ton of ties to Jewish people for my entire upbringing but oi yoi yoi was a common phrase to express dismissive upsetness at something being stupid or stressful.
I don't say it all the way anymore but I say oi all the time still today. I probably say it about five times a week on average.
I use both of those words. Possibly a more fitting phrase for this thread is "I can't believe I ate the whole thing". And the response is "You ate it, Ralph".