January 04, 2008
Sasstalk
VAGINA!
Ha, just kidding. I promised I wouldn't.
So, we all have those lines from movies or TV shows that at one time or another snaked into our personalized lexicons and never went away. Example: Homer Simpson, "I am so smart. S-M-R-T." Example: Luke Danes, "It's like drinking a My Little Pony." Example: Rhett Butler, "Frankly my dear..." and the rest.
The other day I said something for the thousandth time that I'd cribbed not from your everyday mainstream media outlet but from, yep, a blog. Of course, now that I'm trying to recall what exactly I had said and who I had stolen it from, I can't remember. Nevertheless, it made me wonder how widespread this is, this leaking of the blogosphere into our everyday vocabularies, and so I thought I'd ask you, the experts.
I figured I'd start out with a lengthy list of my own, considering I have plenty of material seeing how every fourth thing that comes out of my mouth seem to be related to something I saw online (intervention time?), but of course, now that I'm trying to recall them all, I can only think of a few. So even though I'm failing at my own game, I'm hoping you can share in the comments and make me feel like this was a good idea after all.
And so, Things from the Web that Have Become Part of My Personal Lexicon (and Simon's Too):
--Recently there was Alice's "Do the Festive." Simon and I have been "doing" the "festive" a lot lately, and no, that's not what I mean, pervs.
--"Wakey wakey, eggs and snakey." Linda (yes, the one with all the best ideas) punned this variation on "Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey" waaaaaaaaay back in the waybeforetime, so long ago that I can't find the entry, nor can the Google monkies. Trust me, she wrote it, and lo, it was hilarious.
--"Oh Mylanta." It's an exclamation, used to express exasperation and the like, and I haven't really used it that much since Amanda herself stopped using it, but like I said, I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel for these things to give YOU inspiration so YOU can amuse me on my own website because surely YOU don't have a mind like a snowglobe today, so humor me, pretty please?
--And the latest addition, sung to the tune of "The Dreidel Song" and left in the comments for this entry by Iris, "Bacon, bacon, bacon / I made you out of pigs / And when you're crisp and ready / I'll stuff you in my mouth." We sing this even if there's no bacon in the house.
Hey, two of those examples are about bacon! Weird!
Okay, now it's your turn. Turn on your Functioning Memory Apparatuseses and impress me. (Extra gold stars if you've taken to quoting something you originally read here!)
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(Oooh! I remember what I was trying to remember! Yay brain! It was Sassy! Do you guys read Julia? I don't think she has functioning archives yet, so if you don't know who Sassy is then there's no use trying to figure it out, but oh man, Simon and I mention Sassy several times a week, in contexts such as "Sassy got home only five minutes ago and did all the dishes and the laundry" and "Sassy can balance her checkbook in her head." Sassy, by the way, is a cat who has been dead at least a dozen years.)
This is happening to me too - daily. I was recently describing some of my travel adventures to Handsome and commented that a couple of little girls in the airport were so cute they "made my ovaries hurt."
For the life of me, I couldn't figure out where I read this - probably here, actually. But I did what any self-respecting blog-plagiarist would do. I took credit for it. heh!
Posted by: Jennifer at January 4, 2008 05:03 PMI use the "Like you 34.1 percent, which I stole back from you after you stole it from me following the time someone else actually said it to me in an email.
You used Luke Danes as an example... respect!
Posted by: Catherine at January 4, 2008 05:29 PMWill--That was comedy gold, that was. Some version of it shows up on my rotating title bar.
Posted by: Leah at January 4, 2008 05:31 PMFound it: "Next time I'm only 36.4% cool with you."
Posted by: Leah at January 4, 2008 05:32 PMIt's "Wakey, wakey, hands off snakey!" (Only makes sense when waking males from their sleep.)
Posted by: Ted at January 4, 2008 06:23 PMUm...I used the word 'chasm' yesterday in the same context that you used it. That's about it. But most of the time I talk about people on the internet as if I know them in real life. Everyone is suddenly 'my friend'. It's probably a little odd.
Posted by: Heather B. at January 4, 2008 07:45 PMI try to "control Z" mistakes in my life... does that one count?
Posted by: Elizabeth at January 4, 2008 08:11 PM<TV Geek> "Oh Mylanta" was also exclaimed in episodes of Full House by D.J. Tanner (played by Candace Cameron, little sister to Kirk Cameron who... yadda, yadda, yadda, Kevin Bacon.)</TV Geek>
Posted by: Tim at January 4, 2008 09:49 PMHaha I think I say "thats what she said."
Posted by: Kenzie at January 4, 2008 10:27 PMOne of my personal faves is Holly's "sweet cracker sandwich." But then again the Brits have all the best catchphrases and they sound even better when spoken in their posh accents. My misplaced Southern-cum-New Yawk drawl simply doesn't do it justice.
And I second Heather B.'s comment. Does that make us weird Internet stalkers?
Posted by: Camels & Chocolate at January 4, 2008 10:59 PMWhen I've screwed something up I tend to exclaim (usually to myself) "I'm the fuckpants!" Though I've not yet had the opportunity to actually BE the fuckpants, and I realize I'm not using it in the right context.
In somewhat related news, anytime someone even mentions the Bay Area I ask, "Do you read agirlandaboy?"
Posted by: Super-S at January 5, 2008 03:04 AMThis is a great game but I agree, the minute I try to play I blank on all the things I know I say from reading blogs.
The Mylanta thing was a Mylanta commercial byte before it got to the Tanner household.
Posted by: Kizz at January 5, 2008 07:16 AMI hate to be the voice of correction, Leah, but it was actually "Oh my sweet mustard!"
I will never forget one of Stephanie Klein's similes in which she described an old lady's boobs as "hanging like ferrets". How's that for a visual?
Most of the phrases in heavy rotation around our house are from Family Guy. The most-used one is probably:
"Gross. I still think you're neat, though."
We also like to crack out some gems from "Waiting for Guffman," including:
"Mama Mia, that is such good news!"
"You're a nice guy - glad you're here - but what the hell's wrong with you?"
And from "Best in Show":
"Who are YOU all of a sudden?!"
Posted by: jive turkey at January 5, 2008 10:59 AMIt is so bizarre that you wrote this post because I have been saying 'bow chicka bow-wow' to myself every day since you wrote it a couple of weeks ago. In fact it's been like my personal theme tune lately which is not a little disturbing, particularly for my husband. Extra gold stars this way please!
Oh, and another Best In Show line favourite from our house is 'he went after her like she was made out of ham'. It's scary how useful that phrase is.
