Funny/weird sayings

[iradney]

Do you ever find yourself using a saying, and having people look at you funny?

One that I use for people who don't respond when you ask questions is that they're sitting there with a mouth full of teeth.

I also use "oh my giddy aunt" and "i've been smoking my socks again!"

[reformedwaitress]

At the theater I used to be a part of in college, whenever someone would do something they felt a little evil about (you know, like in cartoons when a character gets that sneaky grin and sprouts horns? that feeling) we'd say "I'm a horrible horrible monster and I [should] pray for death." (The should was optional)

I still say it sometimes, out of habit, and people look at me oddly.

(Though for a while I had the following tagline on my posts in my LJ: "I'm a horrible horrible monster and I pray for death. Harry's. In book seven." :devil: But that's just me!)

[Geek King]

Er, I might be known for looking at the celing, shaking my fist, and yelling, "Khaaaaan!" when frustrated.

You know, maybe.

<wanders off, whistling in the dark>

[Becks]

You mean, besides me saying "I'm wearing pants" and "This music makes me want to deepthroat a shotgun and pull the trigger"?

[squall]

You mean, besides me saying "I'm wearing pants" and "This music makes me want to deepthroat a shotgun and pull the trigger"?

That's what music on the radio these days makes me want to do. Especially top 40 emo and "punk" music.

[Rahmota]

Occasionally if I am frustrated with someone or they've done something incredibly bonerish I'll look up at the heavens and say "Open the gates they'll be up in a minute!"

Also since I've seen way too many movies sometimes I'll use a quote from one thats kinda appropriate to the situation. Makes it rather funny when the people around havent seen the movie. Works especially well with Jayne quotes from firefly/serenity or Python.

[PuckishOne]

I'm also guilty of splashing out a crazy movie quote, but I get a surprising amount of mileage out of a line from the "Blackadder IV" TV series: "Oh, my sainted trousers!"

Something I picked up from my mother is the non-word "discomboobulated," which I use a lot as well, as well as "copacetic." Gets me a raised eyebrow now and again. ;)

[nick1091]

People at work look at me funny when I come out with "Tell them to pound sand." I thought it was a relatively common expression.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I'm also guilty of splashing out a crazy movie quote, but I get a surprising amount of mileage out of a line from the "Blackadder <snip> Tv Series": "Oh, my sainted trousers!"


I regularly do that too. Cept I like the cowpats from the devil's own satanic herd quote better. I also say "Am I my brother's keeper?" whenever someone asks me where any of my brothers are, and "Jesus Christ on a bike!" if I fall over somewhere where I can't swear, and when I'm not at work. At work if I fall over I shout "Ah, nuts!" like Lenny from The Simpsons.

[MadMike]

People at work look at me funny when I come out with "Tell them to pound sand." I thought it was a relatively common expression.

I thought so too, but I've gotten a few weird looks myself over that same expression.

Once, in the middle of an argument with my ex, I told her that trying to talk to her was like "pissing into the wind." To this day, I have no idea what I meant by that. :confused:

[Rapscallion]

That's a fairly common phrase over here. It means you're trying to do something worthwhile, but it's backfiring on you.

I tried the real thing once. I was camping. Never again.

Rapscallion

[Lace Neil Singer]

Another fave saying (this one from Red Dwarf!) if I can't find anything, I'll say "It's like trying to find a fart in a jacuzzi!" I'm rather fond of that one. D

[digilight]

My dad and I were talking one day about the idiot construction workers on the street out front of his place. He said that watching them was like watching a monkey try and fuck a football. Poof a new favorite saying was born.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I picked up this expression from a high school chum and still use it to this day. it always gets attention.

I must warn you, it's pretty bad....























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I sometimes describe a bad situation as being "a (insert name of a certain part of the male body) in the mouth"

[auntnut]

I am known at work for coming up with 'off the wallers' ( I am nicknamed 'Spazz", go figure!)....in fact, one of the associates I work with said to me after some oddball comment I had made "See, thats why I love hanging around you, I never know what's going to come out of your mouth!"
Just yesterday I was verbally sparring with a friend I work with and after one of her caustic remarks to me I said "Ahhh, stick a spoon in it PUDDIN' BUTT!"......stopped her dead in her tracks.:p

[iradney]

one i use when i'm particularly mad is "i'm so angry i could french-kiss a puff adder!" (a poisonous snake)

[Misanthropical]

I will tell my husband that I'm going to crazy and take him with me. (Beetlejuice)

We will look at each other and say "Is there a connection between the spice and the worm?" (Dune)

I was telling my husband how a woman skeedaddled away. He just looked at me like :confused: and told me it must be a Midwest thing. He blames a lot of my saying on me being from the Midwest.

I have told people to go be stupid somewhere else. (Squidworth on Spongebob)

I use "it's just over yonder" and get the "Midwest thing" look from my husband.

I tell my children that I will beat them three ways to Sunday, which makes them laugh like loons. They think the saying is just that funny and they know I don't mean it.

[Bella_Vixen]

Makes me no nevermind.

I blew my friend's mind when I said this one day...over 3 years ago. She still can't figure it out.

[Misanthropical]

Bella_Vixen, I use that one too and get "Midwest thing" look from my husband.

[Becks]

Mis, tell your husband that half the stuff you say, I've never heard of. And I'm WI born and raised.

[Misanthropical]

BeckySunshine, yeah, then he can go from blaming it on me being from the Midwest to blaming it on me just being weird. :D

[rvdammit]

Madder than a bag of snakes - for crazy and/or angry
Set it on the deck - put something down
A couple three - a small quantity
Dirtier than a bag of spanners - gutter minded
Belay that - Stop or don't do that, usually when there's been a quick change of mind (Do X, no belay that, do Y)

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Another one I used once but so want to use more..."You're so stupid you think a joint session of Congress is a pot party!" :lol:

[Writer Cath]

I get weird looks for saying "safety belt" instead of "seat belt."

I've picked up a lot of sayings, including random Yiddish stuff even though I'm not Jewish, as well as a few MidWest things because I studied in Wisconsin for a semester.

One of the oddest ones was when I was going over one of those old metal bridges that vibrates and hums. When I was a kid, we always called them singing bridges.

[Tanasi]

Mis those sayings are not a midwestern thing, it worse they're southern. I use over yonder all the time and I've never lived in the mid-west. I've also used "I'll beat you three ways to Sunday." I usually use variations such as "I'll beat you like a red-headed step child," "I'll beat you like a rented mule," however when I say that to my kids they straighten up cause I'm reaching my limit.
More popular saying I use:
"You ain't worth killin."
"You could destroy an anvil with a rubber mallot."
"Let's put the skeere in em boy's."

My Dad retired from the Navy and used a lot of nautical terms that I picked up and continue to use, since I'm retired Army I also use a lot of Army terms. I've had folks that didn't know me couldn't decide if I was a deck-ape or a dog-face.

[Becks]

BeckySunshine, yeah, then he can go from blaming it on me being from the Midwest to blaming it on me just being weird. :D

Weird is good. Normal is boring. :D