According to the Checkers fast food chain, You Gotta Eat! Sometimes I feel like going up to one of their walk-up counters and just saying "You gotta starve!," the commercials are so annoying. As for other phrases...anyone else notice that, in online conversation, you'll say "Ah, I see" (or the shorthand form "ah ic") a lot, but never really say it in person a lot? I annoy myself with how much I say it online, but amaze myself at how stupid it sounds in real life.
Actually, I say 'I see' alot in real life, just because it makes me seem intellectual, and when I try to seem intellectual I look dorky. The ladies love that. Okay, actually, I live in my room 24/7 becoming paler by the minute.
Well at least you live in an area that has a checkers. I have not eaten there in over 4 years. this may sound strange, but I really miss it. I just wish i could see a checkers comercial or better yet, see a checkers. as for phrases real people dont use "LIke Yaaaaa", like on freinds. oh and "DUDE your gettin a dell"
RR..."Penny For You Thoughts" LOL! I asked some people last night and they said their grandmother used to say that. Those people are retired., so their grandmothers must be from the 1800s. I like the "Ah, I see." you're right. There are online expressions that I don't use in real life. But I do know one person who says that. All the time. I want to slap him. He is perfectly sincere when saying it. I want to slap him. here's some more: What about, "You don't say." without sarcasm. You know anyone who says it with sincerity. "What's a girl like you doing in a place like this." this is from the Used Only in Jokes/TV category "Seemed like the right thing to do at the time." How'd this one become familiar. Jokes/TV??
"Penny for your thoughts" is at least 50 years old. Given inflationary pressures, it should be updated to "Quarter for your thoughts" at least, if not "seventy-five cents for your thoughts".
"Nit Picker" As in, "Don't be a Nit Picker" I believe this is derived from the days when lice eggs were hand picked from the hair.
my dad always said in reference to our swimming pool...you kids are letting it go to hell in a handbasket...WTF or...dont be a pill...i dont know about you dad but little blue pills that say valium rule...
my dad once said to me "You dumb bunny." WTF!! anyhow, that's probably not a familiar enough phrase. how about: "don't spill the beans." anyone? anyone?
"Back to the old drawing board." No one I know says that anymore. Same goes for, "Well, here we go again!", "Cowabunga, dude!", and "Radical, man!"
"come to pass" You know what I mean? Instead of saying "whatever happens," saying "whatever may come to pass." Does anyone use this in real-life? That line always irked me. But that's okay, I still love ya <b>Lord of the Rings</b>.
Not really cowboy phrases, but over time I've heard older people at work say: "it was quiet like a mouse pissing on cotton" or " quiet like a mouse walking on cotton" Another that made me laugh-I don't remember where I heard it- " bend over honey -I'm drivin' " When my brother was nosy about what a woman and I were talking about at a boring anniversary party or wedding reception- the woman was laughing- I told him I had told this snobby tidy woman about 38 to 40 that. She was single, very attractive - petite- but very uptight, and would have been grossly offended by the remark-she was cute though. I really would have never told her "bend over honey-Im drivin' " My dad used to refer to people stoned on weed or hungover as "in that spirit world" "Aces back to back" - don't know what it means - gambling reference to a good hand "All wool and a yard long" = reference to high character
Talk to the hand. I have heard it a hundred times (okay, once) on Ricky Lake (I don't know why my cousin used to watch this show, but he did. Sometimes it was loud enough to hear from the other room while I was visiting.) No one I have encountered in real life has said this, and been serious. Ninja, Aboot? Is this a Canadian pirate you are talking about?
How about: "Please, kind sir, remove that boiled eggplant from my rectum. I'm still not going to vote for Lyndon LaRouche." You never hear anyone say that. I hope.
Not quite familiar enough of a phrase. But that is in the category of Army jargon, I think. how about: "Thank you, sir, may I have another." I never heard that in the Army. I don't care what those officer candidates say in military school. the "real" non-com soldiers don't say that.
