have you ever attempted to introduce new slang into the popular lexicon?

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...like I did with "drop the egg in the salt." As in, "You really dropped the egg in the salt this time, pal. You really fucked up." I thought a good way to get the ball rolling on this would be to call the Friday night shout outs on the local hip hop radio stations and call people out for dropping the egg in the salt. Haven't done it yet though.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Sunday, 28 December 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I invented all slang currently in use.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 December 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"whinertia" - the tendency of a person to keep whining once they've started to kvetch.

― michael bott, Sunday, 28 December 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i read that as weinertia which probably would mean something totally different.

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 28 December 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

you won't be sharing then, Curt1s?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Sunday, 28 December 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i wish i could take back that last post, but alas. i remain,

a fool

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Sunday, 28 December 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Neologisms i have kindly donated to the English lexicon: possibly thousands.

Words that others have gratefully adopted for common parlance: big fat zip.

― petra jane (petra jane), Sunday, 28 December 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

My friend is big user of "Fuck On!!!" as an extolation of good stuff.

Its used in situations that are the total opposite to those that elicit the more common "Fuck Off!!"

I like "Mais um", which is Portugese for "one more". As drinks when getting drunk.

― Nik (Nik), Sunday, 28 December 2003 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm still trying to get everyone to use the word "brachydactilic" more often. Though I can't remember the last time I used it. Actually it's kind of a useless word. But I dream of a world where people call each other "brachydactilic butt-holes." Maybe I should abandon that dream.

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 28 December 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a mate who always makes up his own rhyming slang in mid-sentence. After a while it just sounds Georgie Fame.

The expression I have been trying to establish, to describe that sort of Jackson Pollocks, is 'a Michael Caine in the Tijuana Brass'.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 28 December 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I claimed to reintroduce the term debaucherous to stand for being drunk. I didnt invent it, but I repopularised it yes. I think.
I call the scumbags in my neighbourhood (junkies and wifebeaters) bottom feeders.
My friend has a new catchphrase every week and after the funny, annoying and then funny again phase its truly his own noone else can use it. his top 3 responses to anything; "youre strumming my pain" "feedback" and "pain chamber"

― jeska, Sunday, 28 December 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"You're strumming my pain!" haha!!!!!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 28 December 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

eat yr eggs and eat them.

― cozen¡ (Cozen), Sunday, 28 December 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'll hunt you down like a cat"

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Sunday, 28 December 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"That shit is deluxe 2-4-7!"

― Berkeley / Sackett (calstars), Monday, 29 December 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is suprisingly verbose for ILx.

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Monday, 29 December 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sweet Betsy from Pike", as an interjection.

If you don't know it's a song. Example:
"Sweet Betsy from Pike!! I left the iron on!"

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Monday, 29 December 2003 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been trying to introduce "nails" (as in, "Dude, that movie was nails!") to the lexicon. First heard here on ILE, I forget who started it.

― Colin Saunders (csaunders), Monday, 29 December 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

my mom busted out with 'happy as a dog on trash day' a few days ago.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 29 December 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I started yelling "MAKE A HOLE!!" repeatedly and obnoxiously at concerts a few months ago, as an expression of enthusiasm, and I hope it catches on.

Also, "Dutch bunny" ("Heeeey, what's up, Dutch bunny?" *wink wink*) inspired by Njintje (a.k.a. Miffy).

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Monday, 29 December 2003 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Dante, Andrew and Colin, great ones. I'm gonna start using all of those. Nails!

Altho stolen from one of my former employers at the record store, I've really gotten many people to use "Grim" - as in, "that record is grim," or as a substitute for Homer's "D'oh!" - been using it for years. Eventually it morphed into "Grimoire" for really grim stuff, and finally, whne something is so grim it's criminal, "Crim." You don't use 'crim' unless something is like, deadly in it's lameness - like your mom dies or another Kimya Dawson record comes out.

Lady Jessica and I have made 'hella' an adjective as well - as in, "Dag, that Okie Noodlin' DVD is hella!" Works better if you're not originally from the West Coast.

I also like to exclaim "Creamy Jesus"

and tho I didn't coin it, I've developed a habit of saying "Jeez Louise"

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 29 December 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I tend to say "yoink" a lot, and not necessarily when I'm stealing danishes a la Bart in that one episode where he's working for Crusty blah blah blah. Like, I'll pull out in traffic and exclaim "yoink." stuff like that. And then it annoys me when I realize I've said it aloud and I go "Yoink?"

There is an older/forgotten/unknown bit of slang that I heard about recently that I'm dying to reintroduce. A friend was telling the story of the history of nachos. Apparently they were invented by some guy to sell at Texas Ranger baseball games. The name comes from a slangy term for cool that was apparently popular at that place at that time. Like, dude, that shit was so nacho! I like that.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 29 December 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"as clean as a dog's ass"

― michael bott, Monday, 29 December 2003 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"Yoink" originated with Shaggy from Scooby Doo, yes?

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 29 December 2003 07:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't Shaggy say "yoiks!" and "yoink" is said by Snake on the Simpsons?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 29 December 2003 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

FITE

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 29 December 2003 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

As with all close0knit group of friends at school, we had our own lexicon. we made a list once - I think it came to close to one hundred. A few choce ones will be listed here:

"Ah man!" (in whiny american accent)
"Ooof!" (sound effect of being whalloped)

and the sound effect. In a script, you indicate a sound effect thus: "Television, turned on". This can be used with anything.

Keyboard, type.

Button, press.

and so on.

It's funnier when we do it.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 29 December 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Nails has existed for a while, hasn't it?

I like to think I introduced "trousered" to mean very drunk. About 12 years ago.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 29 December 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

GREEN SKULL

― TOMBOT, Monday, 29 December 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend recently introduced me to the word 'discombobulated' which I am trying my best to popularise cos it is just so much damn fun to say; it starts, your motuh falls over itself for a while, then it stops. cool.

Another friend is trying to poularise the term 'schwang' for generic, going nowhere, chorusless RnB i.e. the kind you can hear a million times and still not be able to hum a melody from (e.g Beyonce's 'Baby Boy').

I am currently using 'shitbags' and 'dickball' at any available opportunity. The former as an expression of disgust or disappointment (mainly directed towards oneself e.g. "Oh shitbags, I forgot to put the rubbish out") the latter as an insult for anyone whose personality I do not like.

― hmmmmm, Monday, 29 December 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

At 15 a friend looked up 'discombobulate' in my French-English dictionary ('chambouler').

I then attempted to use that word in all my French exam papers for the next 3 years, on the basis that no damn grown-up knew what it meant, and no damn grown-up was ever going to /admit/ that.

But since I gave up French at age 18, the opportunities to say "oh la la, je me chamboule!" are few. Instead I use "discombobulate" quite a lot, especially to explain to eg plumbers what has gone wrong with the boiler/lights/cable modem. Eg obviously IF I KNEW WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THE FUCKER I WOULDN'T BE PHONING YOU WOULD I???!!!

ahem. sorry.

― PaulMG, Monday, 29 December 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Pimp.
"That's a Pimp chair"
Used when something is so good that a Pimp would want to own it.

It's become that well used a phrase amongst our little group of friends that we forget that no one else actually knows what we mean, and they look all confused when we try to explain.

― celeste (Celeste), Monday, 29 December 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"wrinklebean" = nipple

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 29 December 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

a friend of mine coined the term 'turd burglar' a couple years ago whilst watching the princess bride. heads almost exploded a month ago when john cena called someone the same exact words on smackdown. how he managed to hear it, or if someone else randomly came up with it is one of the great mysteries of our generation.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 29 December 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

celeste, are you my exroommate?

― Allyzay, Monday, 29 December 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone who I don't even know started saying "what's-his-teeth" instead of "what's-his-name" or "what's-his-face." This got passed to several friends of mine and then to me. I now say it without even thinking about it, which proves to be amusing to people who haven't heard it before.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 December 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

mustard yellow pimp

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 29 December 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

jaymc, I've been referring to people as "what's-his-nuts" for a few years now.

and isn't 'pimp' pretty universally used as an adjective? my friend just used it around his older, square brother and he was like 'Pimp? what the hell is that? is that something they say on MTV??"

― oops (Oops), Monday, 29 December 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

DISCOMBOBULATE

― Nik (Nik), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

instead of saying "ace" (as a positive exclamation) i started saying "ace of spades" and doing a lemmy motion. i think i only got one other person to pick it up. must try harder.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"cockfarmer" to thread!

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

You rang?

ESOJ, how does a "Lemmy Motion" go, exactly?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"How Many?" instead of "What?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

actually oh dear, typing in turd burglar onto a search engine on a works internet computer was not one of my brighter moves.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

""cockfarmer" to thread!"

I hear you, you dirty, dirty vicar. Blessed be.

Cockmonkey is another popular one around these parts. I think it might be the vicar's as well.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Turdburglar was very popular with Glaswegians I know about 10 years ago, encouraged by me because of how it sounds with that accent.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

...also I made up (in the sense that I'd never heard ANYONE use it, ever, before this) a word in 1984/5 when talking to my friend Greg, the first out gay guy I knew, about him trying to figure out the orientation of cute customers in his record shop: GAYDAR. As in, 'Greg, he's straight, I think your gaydar is broken'. It's the kind of conversation people have while buying/selling a Smiths 12".

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i proudly introduced the term....

'Pagan Humping Circle"

... to the unsuspecting world.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

In honor of 'The Lord of the Rings' I'm going to start calling the Miracle Mile part of Wilshire Blvd here in LA: "The Shire".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

lemmy motion = air bass + neck tilted back

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I work on the 'Shire.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

ahhhhh, the Shire...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I at one point said to my friend, in distaste of something, "FUCK that. fuck that with BACON."

and so apparently "with bacon" became the modifier that makes something bad EVEN WORSE. Maybe we are not fans of bacon, but it sounds pretty good.

― pizzadog, Wednesday, 31 December 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

also I randomly said, in reference to my friend's crappy job full of asshole managers, that it was an "endless dick parade" which stuck with him and continues to haunt me.

― pizzadog, Wednesday, 31 December 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

CONVERSATIONAL TERRORISM: if someone asks you something you don't know the answer to or don't want to answer or just want to piss them off, shake your head sadly and say, "It's all so unquantifiable..." which may be something I read here or somewhere else but it doesn't matter; it's been surprisingly effective in irritating the people I've been dealing with lately.

― pizzadog, Wednesday, 31 December 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

oh shit, turd burglar!

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 4 March 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

My husband swore to me he invented the term "dropping a 'bow" and then after much prodding admitted it was a wrestling term he'd heard.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 4 March 2004 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

my sisters and i, started saying that when somebody was eyeing you up, that he was giving you 'the creepy fish eye'. it now after years has changed into just when it is a minging guy is eyeing you up.

― saza bob, Thursday, 4 March 2004 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

my wife tried to popularize "secular!" in high school, kinda like "tubular!" except, y'know, she was in a hippie town

kids in seattle used to say "excrement" the same way other people would say "excellent"

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 4 March 2004 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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