Unknown Catch Phrases

[Laurie]

I don't know, but he sounds like a teenager trying to get into his girlfriend's pants. It's unsettling. I think the email was written around 2005, so that would have made him around 30 according to Wikipedia. YIKES. Word of advice, guys, use spell check. Firefox comes with a built-in spell checker. Nothing turns a girl off more than bad spelling and grammar.

[Sarah]

why can't I shoot up to 14 feet?  Why am I limited to a baker's dozen?

I feel your pain.  Well, I don't, really, but your anguish is evident and searing.

And, Laurie, unfortunately spell-check wouldn't have caught a lot of the mistakes in that text.  Too many homophones, for one thing.

[buffcoat]

I imagine "searing" is the feeling of generating enough internal pressure to make even a paltry 13-foot shot.

[Sarah]

Oh, and about this:

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I thought "hornet . . . sonnet" was exceptionally noteworthy, as both an example of inspired rhyming and an exercise in non sequitur.  Of course, the breathiness was grand as well--and so unstudied.

[buffcoat]

To link two topics - unknown catchphrases and Ray Manzarek:

I use a shorthand of calling actors by the title of their best-known movies, but not the character the actor played.

To wit (for actor Kyle MacLachlan):

Dune really convinced me that Ray Manzarek was an asshole, even though the movie was written to show Manzarek in the best possible light.

You could also use, "Blue Velvet."


Every time David Krumholtz is on TV, I say "Shut up, Numb3rs!"

[Laurie]

Every time David Krumholtz is on TV, I say "Shut up, Numb3rs!"

Oh really? I tend to say, "And his gee-ee-nius brother!" Which is sad, because David Krumholtz is a funny guy in what I assume is a shitty show.

[buffcoat]

The show is shitty but I find it entertaining for some bizarre reason.  There was a comment on IMDB that said the show was "too Jewish."  How could anything with Judd Hirsch be "too Jewish?"

It only got massively better for me when I saw in Parade magazine's awful, awful Hollywood questions column that someone had asked, "Is David Krumholtz really a math genius?"

Answer: [spoiler alert]


























No.

[Laurie]

I have something less creepy to contribute to this thread:

"Lighten up, it's just fashion!"

I don't know if I would consider it unknown. I think it's moderately well-known.

[John Junk]

I always seem to say "You two are having a ladies' conversation" from Flirting With Disaster.
Also "My husband is food-phobic" from same movie.
another good one is: "Neurotic guy?  That's my designation?"

[Emily]

sometimes when i say i did something once that i'll never do again i go, "I went to Apple Bee's once, Once! and i hold up my index finger to emphasize once.

(johnny dangerously)

[Josh]

How would you like to come over and mow my lawn?

[TL]

WET  out THERE  toNIGHT!

(maybe it'll break the heat.)

[Richard_From_CHI]

My worst offense of excessive use of a catch phrase is due entirely to Tom.

I say Holy Guacamole about 5000000000000000000000 times a day.

Jeepers is a regular part of my speech pattern as well.

[John Junk]

Richard, right now you have 420 posts.  Spark up before you type any more responses!!

[Richard_From_CHI]

I am strictly a blue user now.