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Forrest

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Re: What is the lamest expression?
« Reply #60 on: June 09, 2008, 02:52:38 PM »
Message board phrases that I vow to swear off:

Meh.
Bah.
Ugh.

But these are so useful during the quasi-conversations one conducts on message boards.  We need our Internet grunts, I think.


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Shaggy 2 Grote

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Re: What is the lamest expression?
« Reply #61 on: June 09, 2008, 03:02:53 PM »
Nmmmmgggggggghhh.
Oh, good heavens. I didn’t realize. I send my condolences out to the rest of the O’Connor family.

Gilly

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Re: What is the lamest expression?
« Reply #62 on: June 09, 2008, 03:16:51 PM »
Message board phrases that I vow to swear off:

Meh.
Bah.
Ugh.

Those are essential! Maybe not bah but meh and ugh are as important as any other word to express yourself. They sound dumb but everything else sounds worse.

One phrase I really need to stop using is "I'm not a big fan".

todd

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Re: What is the lamest expression?
« Reply #63 on: June 09, 2008, 03:18:56 PM »
I always say, "I'm not gonna lie...."

It's so stupid and I need to quit.

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Re: What is the lamest expression?
« Reply #64 on: June 09, 2008, 04:33:19 PM »
you know, my mom does this same thing, but instead says, "Good night nurse!" or just plain ol', "Good night...!"

ive attempted to educate her on how lame this sounds, but at some point, i suppose, you just dont care.  so i stopped caring. 

I think "Good night nurse!" is awesome. I need to find new ways to curse around my kids.

andrew in philadelphia

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Re: What is the lamest expression?
« Reply #65 on: June 09, 2008, 05:46:11 PM »
lame: laughter, followed by: "dude, that bumper sticker is hilarious."

as for good ones, whenever we'd take a long drive somewhere, my intensely catholic 90 year old italian grandmother would (at least once per trip) look out the window and utter: "this must be where god left his pants." i still have no idea what that means, but i do try and crowbar it into my everyday life as much as possible. i should also note that a "long drive," to her, was 20 minutes or more (sometimes less.)

dave from knoxville

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Re: What is the lamest expression?
« Reply #66 on: June 09, 2008, 06:18:11 PM »
I bet Dave from Knoxville will disagree with me here, but:





I would agree that it's lame, but in the same vein, how about this?

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Sarah

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Re: What is the lamest expression?
« Reply #67 on: June 09, 2008, 06:22:36 PM »
my intensely catholic 90 year old italian grandmother would (at least once per trip) look out the window and utter: "this must be where god left his pants."

What kind of scenery would you be passing when she made the comment?  This could help us narrow down the meaning.

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Re: What is the lamest expression?
« Reply #68 on: June 09, 2008, 06:53:57 PM »
my intensely catholic 90 year old italian grandmother would (at least once per trip) look out the window and utter: "this must be where god left his pants."

What kind of scenery would you be passing when she made the comment?  This could help us narrow down the meaning.

Yes! I want to use this as soon as possible. I have kids who need to hear their father say stuff like this.
"I'm riding the silence like John Cage up in this piece." -Tom Scharpling

Stan

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Re: What is the lamest expression?
« Reply #69 on: June 09, 2008, 08:17:09 PM »
 Thanks, Andrew in Philadelphia!
                                 "This must be where buffcoat left his pants."

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Re: What is the lamest expression?
« Reply #70 on: June 09, 2008, 09:55:11 PM »
There's a category of expressions that are really lame but that I kinda like, and use occasionally, for that precise reason:

Cripes
Crimony
Geez Louise
My Lord/Good Lord

"Good night nurse" fits into that category.  They all seem rather archaic...


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Re: What is the lamest expression?
« Reply #71 on: June 09, 2008, 11:56:01 PM »
This may be more irritating than lame, but I really can't stand "good thinkin, Lincoln."

Who are all of you people spending your time with?

In this case, my mother.

andrew in philadelphia

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Re: What is the lamest expression?
« Reply #72 on: June 10, 2008, 02:09:46 AM »
my intensely catholic 90 year old italian grandmother would (at least once per trip) look out the window and utter: "this must be where god left his pants."

What kind of scenery would you be passing when she made the comment?  This could help us narrow down the meaning.

anything you'd see driving the backroads between philadelphia and wildwood, nj - diners, the world's biggest hubcap pyramid, some donut shack in the pine barrens run by nuns. you know, fun things.

Sarah

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Re: What is the lamest expression?
« Reply #73 on: June 10, 2008, 06:30:20 AM »
Hm.  She could have been expressing wonder or disgust, then.  Tricky. 

andrew in philadelphia

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Re: What is the lamest expression?
« Reply #74 on: June 10, 2008, 09:50:57 AM »
Hm.  She could have been expressing wonder or disgust, then.  Tricky. 

i don't remember her ever expressing "wonder" at anything, but there was plenty of disgust. tons. constantly. from christmas presents and automobiles to facial hair and the television show "perfect strangers" - more or less everything got her blood boiling. she loved cooking, cigarettes, any type of fast food beef, alcohol, her family, earrings, gambling, stealing silverware and other cutlery from restaurants, and church. everything else was a target and usually got blasted pretty thoroughly.