Favorite phrases

[godfry n. glad]

Since we've got the word gigs going, I thought I'd throw in some phrases...my favorites, at least.

The two I like and use the most both owe their existance to Dave Barry.

1. "workman's parallel universe" - where the guys working on your house come in in the morning and spend the day tearing out a wall, then stop and clean up at mid-afternoon and as they're leaving they tell you that "they'll be back on Thursday." It's not until a month later, and they still haven't returned and the job is still not done, that you realize that they did NOT tell you WHICH Thursday. That's the "workman's parallel universe."

2. "victim of fashion" - fashions come and go and come again. Invariably in the rage of fashion there we be those who would have been better off NOT to try the latest fashion out. Bald men with ponytails and hefty women in hip-huggers and crop tops are two examples offered up by Dave. The bad tie crowd fits in here as well.

Any others out there that youse guys find helpful or amusing?

godfry

[Adora]

See my sig.

And "It kinda looks like X if you tip your head to the side and squint a bit".

And "What the SHIT is this?!"

[Farren]

"Everything must go"

[livius drusus]

"You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here."

[viscousmemories]

"I'll burn that bridge when I get to it".


I swear to GOD I coined that one.

[JoeP]

"I'll burn that bridge when I get to it".

I swear to GOD I coined that one.
Maybe that precise phrasing :P , but I've heard "I'll jump off that bridge when I get to it" many times, and in project management circles "We'll cross out that bridge when we come back to it later"

[livius drusus]

"If hate were people, I'd be China."

[wildernesse]

"If hate were people, I'd be China."
:biglaugh:

[godfry n. glad]

But wait...there's more!

godfry

[godfry n. glad]

Please stand by. We are experiencing technical diffuculties.

godfry

[godfry n. glad]

Mistakes were made.

godfry

[beyelzu]

e pluribus unum


so much better than in god we trust.

[beyelzu]

I always loved


Damnit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a ____________"


I grew up watching many star trek reruns.

[Adora]

Weapons of Mass *insert witty word here*. My favourites are "Distraction" and "Deception" because they're just classic, and I've used them far too much in smutty conversations.

[godfry n. glad]

Weapons of Mass *insert witty word here*. My favourites are "Distraction" and "Deception" because they're just classic, and I've used them far too much in smutty conversations.

My favorite turn on that phrase is "Weapons of Math Instruction".

godfry

[Lauri D]

"For the love of cheese..."

I adopted it as a replacement of "for the love of God" or other religious reference, because if there's anything that truly deserves love and worship, it's CHEESE. :yup:

[godfry n. glad]

"For the love of cheese..."

I adopted it as a replacement of "for the love of God" or other religious reference, because if there's anything that truly deserves love and worship, it's CHEESE. :yup:

But for me, it's not just a single fromage...it's the splendid variety of all the cheeses.

Yes... I believe in cheeses. I love cheeses.

godfry

[JoeP]

"For the love of cheese..."

I adopted it as a replacement of "for the love of God" or other religious reference, because if there's anything that truly deserves love and worship, it's CHEESE. :yup:

But for me, it's not just a single fromage...it's the splendid variety of all the cheeses.

Yes... I believe in cheeses. I love cheeses.

godfry
Oh no :yipes:

I've got a terrible sinking feeling about this.

Lauri asserts: cheese deserves love and worship and is set above all other foodstuffs; moreover there is only one "cheese", sacred and indivisible (this is the interpretation of the learned Council of Wm Nicol, 2004, although not actually to be found in the original sayings of Lauri).

The godfryngladdic heresy (almost contemporaneous with the original Gospel of Lauri) claims that there are (as folk opinion would agree) multiple varieties of cheese, but that they are all equal in reverence. No religious gathering is complete without a splendid variety of cheeses; indeed meals or dishes that include only one variety of cheese are a sin and their hosts or makers must be put to death by toasting; any communicants who have partaken of such meals or dishes must be dragged to the dairy and drowned in unpasteurised milk.

It is hard for us to understand at such a remove, almost 7 hours from the founding of the Church of Lauri, just how freely cheeses were traded, eaten and spoken of then. Now, we have the spectacle of once global cheese varieties being icons of wars and even interfamilial murder. Greek immigrants bringing feta to Britain are now routinely searched and hanged. Camembert, gorgonzola, raclette, brie and all the other cheeses claimed by the Holy Catholic Empire are seized and burnt in America with the now-familiar cry of "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys!" And the tiny village of Cheddar in Somerset, England, is now a feudal fief which has practically cut off all communication with the outside world for more than an hour, except for the bands of feared Cheddar Crusaders who seek out dairies blasphemously using the name of Cheddar and torching them.

For the love of cheese, my fellow people, let us unite and declare that cheese does not rule us; that mankind created cheese, not the other way round; that all kinds of cheese have their place in a pancaseistic society; that no law may be made promoting one kind of cheese over another or limiting any freedom to use or not use cheese in ways that do not harm others; and that people who don't like cheese have equal rights with normal people.

[Lauri D]

Oh no :yipes:

I've got a terrible sinking feeling about this.

Lauri asserts: cheese deserves love and worship and is set above all other foodstuffs; moreover there is only one "cheese", sacred and indivisible (this is the interpretation of the learned Council of Wm Nicol, 2004, although not actually to be found in the original sayings of Lauri).

The godfryngladdic heresy (almost contemporaneous with the original Gospel of Lauri) claims that there are (as folk opinion would agree) multiple varieties of cheese, but that they are all equal in reverence. No religious gathering is complete without a splendid variety of cheeses; indeed meals or dishes that include only one variety of cheese are a sin and their hosts or makers must be put to death by toasting; any communicants who have partaken of such meals or dishes must be dragged to the dairy and drowned in unpasteurised milk.

It is hard for us to understand at such a remove, almost 7 hours from the founding of the Church of Lauri, just how freely cheeses were traded, eaten and spoken of then. Now, we have the spectacle of once global cheese varieties being icons of wars and even interfamilial murder. Greek immigrants bringing feta to Britain are now routinely searched and hanged. Camembert, gorgonzola, raclette, brie and all the other cheeses claimed by the Holy Catholic Empire are seized and burnt in America with the now-familiar cry of "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys!" And the tiny village of Cheddar in Somerset, England, is now a feudal fief which has practically cut off all communication with the outside world for more than an hour, except for the bands of feared Cheddar Crusaders who seek out dairies blasphemously using the name of Cheddar and torching them.

For the love of cheese, my fellow people, let us unite and declare that cheese does not rule us; that mankind created cheese, not the other way round; that all kinds of cheese have their place in a pancaseistic society; that no law may be made promoting one kind of cheese over another or limiting any freedom to use or not use cheese in ways that do not harm others; and that people who don't like cheese have equal rights with normal people.
:appl: :10: :appl:

[Ex-zombie]

"Fuck you and the horse you rode in on."

When I am angry that phrase just seems to say it all.

[godfry n. glad]

'Ja see that?

Lauri just gave Joe the clap. And ten points to spare.

godfry

[Lauri D]

:guilty:

:tiptoe:

[Farren]

'Ja see that?

Lauri just gave Joe the clap. And ten points to spare.

godfry

LOL! I guess she is omnipotent then. I've never seen anyone do that at a range of half a planet.

[godfry n. glad]

'Ja see that?

Lauri just gave Joe the clap. And ten points to spare.

godfry

LOL! I guess she is omnipotent then. I've never seen anyone do that at a range of half a planet.

he said "nip"...hehehehehehe :beavis:

[godfry n. glad]

Joe's piece was deservant, for sure.

...and I beg your pardon, bon mad'moiselle... but I could not resist. :wink:

godfry

[Lauri D]

Don't mention it, godfry, I was :lol:

And of course I'm omnipotent. I knew Farren for one did not doubt my powers http://e4u.deltait.com.au/sport/sport23.gif


... more on-topic, I thought of another one of my favorite phrases.

"Life's a bitch, and then you cut yourself opening a can of tuna and die of gangrene".

(I say it all the time and people are like "huh?" It's a line by Harrison Ford's character in The Mosquito Coast.)

[Dingfod]

"Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.""¡y tu mamá también!"

I sometimes say "Fuck you and the horse that rode you in.", but not actually to anyone.

[JoeP]

"For the love of cheese..."

I adopted it as a replacement of "for the love of God" or other religious reference, because if there's anything that truly deserves love and worship, it's CHEESE. :yup:
Lauri, I have to request that you set your custom title to Cheese On A Stick. :cool:

[godfry n. glad]

"For the love of cheese..."

I adopted it as a replacement of "for the love of God" or other religious reference, because if there's anything that truly deserves love and worship, it's CHEESE. :yup:
Lauri, I have to request that you set your custom title to Cheese On A Stick. :cool:

An hors d'oeuvre?

Ewwwwwww.....

godfry

[godfry n. glad]

"So be it."

I notice I use this on occasion. Usually for finality.

Does anybody know, is it judicial, religious or literary? I don't know where I got it.

I like it.

godfry

[viscousmemories]

From Dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com/):

so be it

Let it be so, I accept it as it is. For example, If you can't change the reservation, so be it; I'll travel on Monday. This phrase, often given as a translation of the Hebrew (and Greek and Latin) amen, has been employed in the current sense since about 1600.

[Dingfod]

I live in the "so be it" union.

[godfry n. glad]

I live in the "so be it" union.

You do?

I thought you lived in Oklahoma. Unwillingly.

You move recently?

godfry

[Dingfod]

I live in the "so be it" union.

You do?

I thought you lived in Oklahoma. Unwillingly.A union of so be it social list repugnant states, Utah and Oklahoma. So be it, chew none. Da?

[JoeP]

/me makes monumental effort to make on-topic post
I'm struggling to think of the phrases that actually are my favourites, as with the favourite words thread. I know they're there, and I know the ones I'm fishing out are not the ones I really like, but somehow my brain is not organised that way.

That's all folks

Mind the gap

Trust me, I'm a doctor
(doctor's son if I want to be truthful)

[Ymir's blood]

Trust me, I'm a doctor
(doctor's son if I want to be truthful)

Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a ..."

"He's dead Jim."

[JoeP]

Trust me, I'm a doctor
(doctor's son if I want to be truthful)

Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a ..."

"He's dead Jim."

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it

[Adora]

Currently it's, Not Happy Jan because that's how I feel right about now.

*plots the death of sibling*

[godfry n. glad]

From Dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com/):

so be it

Let it be so, I accept it as it is. For example, If you can't change the reservation, so be it; I'll travel on Monday. This phrase, often given as a translation of the Hebrew (and Greek and Latin) amen, has been employed in the current sense since about 1600.

Thanks, vm. So, religious it is.

Curious, considering I've no liturgical training whatsoever (despite being an ordained minister), growing up in a mixed household. What light exposure I had was to Methodism, a sort of "donuts and coffee" Christianity. I joined because I was a teenager attending an all boys school and wanted to meet girls. The church sponsored my boy scout troop as well as the youth group - with girls. The girls were cute and fun and the deacon's son introduced me to other, hitherto unknown, sins. So, I can't complain about my brush with Christianity, as it introduced me to sex and drugs....yeah.

Amen.

godfry

[godfry n. glad]

Not a happy camper, eh?

godfry

[Adora]

Sibling. Nuff said.