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petra jane just used "sticky-uppy hair", which as far as i'm concerned my fwiend rae invented in the 80s (along with "madey-uppy")

but does it make sense to make this kind of claim?

(first person to mention "gaydar" will sent the BLACK SPOT btw)

― mark s, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

urgent and key, obv

― mark s, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I lay no claim to having invented any phrases however I have been accused of inventing things e.g. I once said someone or other was a chubby chaser and everyone I was with at the time went 'a WHAT?' and said that I must've made it up despite my protestations that it was a well known expression.

― Emma, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought chubby chaser was pretty well known, that's kind of strange.

I wish I had made up a word, but instead I'm just good at stealing and using other people's made up words.

― Nicole, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I invented the phrase: "hip hip hooray for you, on your magical birthing day". I'm sure it's entirely possible that some individual in the history of the world ever, could have used the exact same cobination of words. But, not to my knowledge.

― jel --, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't get started, Cully.

― Pete, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Exactly, Nicole, hence my frustration and annoyance with them all. Unless it was a conspiracy to make me think I was losing my marbles.

― Emma, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What have marbles got to do with the price of eggs?

― Graham, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sapphic Entwhistles for Lesbians (like Sapper Entwhistle... archtype soldier... naw, no takers? oh okay)

― misterjones, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But Jel, doesn anyone else say this? I haven't seen it on a Hallmark card yet.

― N., Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not a word I invented but the context is different.

Cupcake as a term of affection. I must have picked it up from somewhere though, because it's just implanted itself in my mind and I can't shake it even though I'm aware of it sounding daft.

Previous ones have been sweetpea, babycakes (which must have come from Armsted Maupin) and pumpkin. I am the queen of twee terms of endearment, but it is not a role I relish.

― Anna, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

wasn't cupcake regularly used on "Happy Days" to mean cutie?

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my sister and i at the very least used lots of phrases in odd ways. we used to say "mercy bumpus" for thank you, for example. i'm sure more will occur to me.

― toby, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not sure where it came from, or if it's outside Ireland but people here say "stinger" to mean like "too bad". Variations include "it's a stinger", "yeah I know stinger isn't it?".

If I was reading this about a smaller country I'd be thinking "ha that's so odd, bless them" aswell.

― Ronan, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

N., you've got a point...hmmm, back to the drawing board.

― jel --, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i invented "knobgoblins"! and rickyT invented the term "gribbly" for somethig that's ooh a bit icky.

― katie, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I invented both cockfarmer and vadgemonkey. Which are words, not phrases.

― DV, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Once, I was talking to A Friend and she was saying about someone she knew who really loved himself and she said something (I can't remember what) which I misheard as "He thinks he's the hot chips" which, loving chips as I do, I now use to describe someone who thinks they're all that.

― jamesmichaelward, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I assumed that my friend had invented 'Ginormous' until I discovered that every around the world uses it. See also 'grody'.

― Evangeline, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Valley girl she's a valley girl.....

― Pete, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my editor (female) says of those who have ruined their chances: "He's pissed on his chips"

― mark s, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

someone I know coined theword nobjockey. Very effective

― misterjones, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is this the place to advertise memes we've been trying to start, or do people have to just start copying it, rockist style?

― Graham, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ok really bizarre ones.

Me and my friends use the word "mule" to mean various things. Eh....I'm not sure how it started but "mule" can be (a)an idiot "he's a total mule", (b)an acquaintance "yeah just me and some mules". And "muled" means drunk or high or something along those lines.

Eh......that was an embarassing confession........

― Ronan, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also an expletive "MULE!".

eh......I don't expect you all to understand.

― Ronan, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ooh also our friend Ben the Goth made up "Loat" to mean "loitering with depraved intent" though apparently according to RickyT i also found the word "lote" in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to mean pretty much the same thing though i have NO MEMORY of this. it happened about the same time anyhoo. Ben also made up "SPANK" to mean either consume, or move v. fast as in "who spanked all the rice cakes?" or "i was spanking along". we thought we'd invented the word "RORTY" to mean pungent eg. "coorrr this whisky is RORTY!" but then i found the work in Stella Gibbon's "Cold Comfort Farm" meaning garish, i think.

― katie, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"rorty" coming from Richard Rorty BTW.

― katie, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also invented by Katie - vorge = the sound the extracter fan makes.

― RickyT, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

did i invent vorge? thought it was Beng... also the fridge made a vorging sound. the fridge was called Umpk.

― katie, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

statscock

― anthony, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bah, wrote big long answer and then got all confused and it disappeared.

Gribbly! Any relation to Alan the Gribbly in Jacaranda Jim? He's great! He has his own copy of Norton Utilities, y'know. Invoices! Heh. Yay Jacaranda Jim! The big anti-virus company the godlike Graham Cluley now has some very important post in is based near here, maybe one day I'll arrive on his doorstep and froth fangirlishly at him and ask if I can still register JJ and Humbug and the ace T-Zero (not by him, but he was in charge of UK registration for it) and generally scare him and be escorted away by the police. He rocks. I love 12-year-old text adventures...

*pauses for breath* *is stared at* *crawls under stone*

Erm, anyway. I fondly remember many words and phrases I thought were invented by the people I shared a house with a year ago, but then I discovered IL* and Starry Sarah seemed to use half of them too, even the ones we thought were OURS. Freaky mind-meld or one of those subconscious adoption from elsewhere things? Hmm. I guess the latter happens quite a lot. I remember meeting some people from a different school when I was 5 and being surprised when they said "shit" because I thought it was slang exclusive to my school (being sweet and innocent enough not to have heard anyone outside my class say it).

― Rebecca, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have invented the word 'quabble'. It's a cross between quibbling and squabbling.

― Ally C, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i can't remember if i made this up or not, but "gunge" is a good way to refer to what used to be called "grunge" before "grunge" became the name for a genre of music/fashion/'tude. like "dude, scrape that gunge off your shoe before you come in here!! 'shaa!"

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tracer, gunge is even in my dictionary you crazy cat. It doesn't credit you in the etymology.

― N., Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No seriously, i made it up! etc etc.

I made up "chessy" on this board awhile ago, but i forgot all about it till now. Snot a phrase though anyway.

Ok, how about when someone comes down with "a bad case of the ________s" (insert name of current all- consuming gfriend/bfriend)

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like that, a bad case of the ________s

We tend to say he/she is on insert name of boyfriend/girlfriend duty.

― Ronan, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*I* say "hip hip hooray on your magical birthing day", too Jel! I even got permission from you to use it, remember?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

egotwit.

― paul, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I invented the word "Meowsy" in 1997 or around about that time. It quickly caught on around my internet friends and I even went to the trouble of registering Meowsy as the name of my domain for my website. But then a couple of years later Pokemon suddenly came up with a character called Meowsy, who was a female Meowth. This still rankles to this day.

― Chris Lyons, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chris, what did YOUR Meowsy mean?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Licky-boom-boom-down. I wrote that."

― JM, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ha ha your snow.

― di, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, but it's actually a secondary reference to a series of ads for Comedy Central in the late 90's wherein an old woman says that she "...wrote that."

― JM, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"arms of sex", but it wouldn't mean much to most of you.

― Mark C, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark, you know this place is a s*n*ster retirement village, everyone'll know what that means...

I think i coined "penk" as another word to use in e-mails going through work swear filters instead of the C word. entymology from Steve Penk, ex-virgin breakfast host. idea nicked from mary whitehouse experience (radio) circa 1989, who did the same with henry kelly...

― CarsmileSteve, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ooh Carsmile, we came up with another way to evade e-mail filters, we just prefixed the word "antelope" with the first letter of every rude word that we wished to say. hence "fantelope", "fanteloping" etc etc etc. it was only ever "fantelope" though, never "cantelope" or "shantelope".

― katie, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you know this place is a s*n*ster retirement village

Then I was the guy wandering through at night pissing on your lawns. And would you want that?

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

a good doss - when refering to anything but sleepin accomo

― a-33, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i thought "doss" as referring to sleep was a south african-ism?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But then F*mings email filter started bouncing anything with the word fantelope in it. Which was weird.

― RickyT, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When I read "fantelope", I can't help imaging an antelope constructed out of tins of Fanta. Which isn't *that* wierd, cos you get quite a lot of street vendors here creating animal-themed sculpture out of recycled refuse. Like, I've got this chicken here made out of plastic bags and a few bits of plastic. So.. yeah.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i was really sure that my ex and her mates had coined "meep" until just now when i spotted mark s using it on ilm. this makes me rather sad, oddly enough.

― toby, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i got it from i. roadrunner ii. rainy (if they are indeed different!?!)

― mark s, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

marky McMark = cheeky. (meep meep, arf.)

― rainy, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh ok. to be honest i think the sadness had rather more to do with the seven pints i drank this afternoon than anything else. roadrunner, eh?

― toby, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just can't be modest in this department......I think I come up with about 4 or 5 word combinations daily that have never been used by anyone else on earth and also arent shitty random cutesy surrealisms......I was renowned for this in high school and as a result a bit overproud of myself and disdainful of people who used stock phrases (I once very loudly called a girl a stupid fucking cunt for saying "far be it from me" twice in one hour).....but no more.....I just accept what is my calling and let unoriginal people be......last year I came up with "robocop".....let me explain.....it means procuring something digitally, most often mp3 downloading..... (note: "cop" means "to obtain" in the USA...for cool people anyway)......"did you hear the new Mia X?"...."Yeah.....i robocopped it though"......it is spreading like wildfire up and down both coasts and everyone's using it now.....coming soon to your neighborhood, just you wait.

― Ramosi, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I invented "Behold, I am the master of my own pants!" (possibly now my favorite phrase ever) the fake band name 'The Camel Toads' and often use "big hot bastard" as a term of endearment - which doesn't *sound* that unique, but I can't say that I've come across it anywhere else, so I guess it's all mine.

― Kim, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

deek (n): sub-category of annoying/unpleasant person. has qualities of both geek and dick, with a dash of dork.

― minna, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sarah adopts my meme. Or just can't type properly.

― Graham, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four months pass...

my meme = ect ect

Sarah and Katie and the person that writes snotty notices about litter in the computer room is using it. Can I claim responsibility?

(I hope this hasn't ruined an undeground scene by making it mainstream)

― Graham, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sometime around May me and my friends started using the word "Swayzee" to mean various things. (Yes it was after a stoner huhuh patrick swayzee moment). And at this point it's like texts that say "yeah I'll give you that cash i owe you, swayzee". Or "I'm feeling a bit patrick to be honest". I was swayzeed etc. Actually I'm getting major deja vu here, I'm sure I explained this before on ILE. I remember at Homelands saying it to people and noone batted an eyelid.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

why Rorty = pungent??

and Fish thus = ????

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

once i was trying to think of the baddest thing ever to call my brother and what came out was "BUMPOCKET!" me and RickyT still use it occasionally.

― katie, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chipsticks.

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'i'm Swayze' appeared in quite a few early/mid 90s Hip hop tracks to mean 'i'm out of here' after the film 'Ghost'.

'ect ect' is in Molesworth

― michael, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hehe we'd never used it for that, but I'm sure we can now.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

see pinefox, Fish already means something, ie. those things that live in water what you occasionally eat with chips. we didn't KNOW that Rorty meant something already, it just seemed onomatopoeic and fitting somehow. although i guess you could argue that Fish = RUB if you weren't a fan, hehe.

― katie, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you know if you smell something and it seems to go straight to your sinuses, like vinegar or Islay whisky, and you make that noise "rorrrr!" hence rorty.

― katie, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well I claim Gaydar independent invention rights (cos I remember how I invented it), and according to Google Katie and Sarah and only started using it after I did. So I claim them as my bitches.

― Graham, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Graham, there's no possible way you could have invented the term "gaydar".

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

graham neither you nor suzy invented "gaydar". and molesworth was published before you were BORN so no way did you invent ect ect.

― katie, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hrmmm, the only phrases that I ever invent that seem to catch on are things like "dirty dronerock boy" and "skanky ho boy" and, erm, I can't remember if who actually invented "tasty slampiece" or if everyone I knew at the time just started using it spontaneously at once, but everyone accuses me of doing it.

So why do all my phrases describe cute boys?

― kate, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to put tasty slampiece in a review.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

shush bitch.

― Graham, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Taking sides: "tasty slampiece" vs "shush bitch"

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck me it's light.

― Matt, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I could probably fit in shush bitch aswell.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

shush bitch is quite sizeable then? bigger or smaller than tankpuss?

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You can certainly put tasty slampiece in a review, considering that we used to do a fanzine which was called SLAMPIECE because we did nothing but rave about cute slampieces in it.

― kate, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(sorry katie)

― Graham, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I invented the term "frothies" to describe those little old ladies with blue-rinsed hair who drive too slowly and are too short to see over the bluddy steering wheel.

― C J, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Somebody called me a Skanky Ho Boy about four years ago.. I don't think it was Kate.

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Some Hispanic guys kept calling me "rooster." Was I being insulted?

― bnw, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I invented 'upsad'. Go!, say I didn't.

― david h, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Vomit your ass.

― nathalie, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

scrap metal! as a swearword

― maryann, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

gosh just remembered "arsebastard" when shouted it at our malfunctioning phone at 8am this morning WHY WLSE DO YOU THINK I AM UP AND POSTING FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!?!

― katie, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

okay i found Cheers sn 9 on torrent today and was really chuffed, as i proceeded to download it i said to myself without realising -

"Free Cheers all round" (3 cheers)

― Ste, Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:36 (seventeen years ago)

er ah, wrong thread revival

― Ste, Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:36 (seventeen years ago)

one of those ol time threads i wish i'd been around for tho

― blueski, Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:38 (seventeen years ago)

I coined "g'daydar" in honour of an old boss of mine who lusted after Antipodeans.

Also "spang" as the nu-rave equivalent of bling.

― Stevie T, Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:41 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?q=languagological

:-)

― StanM, Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:44 (seventeen years ago)

I used the phrase 'I just done a big smelly Vince' earlier today.

In honour of the Lib Dem deputy leader of course.

― linea, Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:46 (seventeen years ago)

Stingles - a more intense painful version of those tingles you get when your foot falls asleep.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

the peel precedent: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=peel+precedent

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:57 (seventeen years ago)

My friend invented "swan" and "hand" to describe someone of an idiotic disposition e.g: "Aw I had so much to drink last night, I was acting like a total swan - a complete hand!"

― the next grozart, Thursday, 3 July 2008 16:00 (seventeen years ago)

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 July 2008 16:26 (seventeen years ago)

Ball of cats. Like a ball of wax, but much more clusterfucky. "But, that's a whole 'nother ball of cats!"

Glame. When something is both gay and lame.

― kate78, Thursday, 3 July 2008 20:40 (seventeen years ago)

my friends invented a 'crisp' named after dude from kindergarten cop. its a dude with long hair, preferably in a ponytail, who steals your girlfriend and is into theater, new age-y shit and/or martial arts and is generally a douchebag

another famous crisp would be tim robbins character 'ian' from high fidelity

― deej, Thursday, 3 July 2008 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

skull custard - it can mean either 'snot' or 'brains', depending on the context, and even then it isn't always clear.

― Aimless, Thursday, 3 July 2008 20:57 (seventeen years ago)

http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/12/58/0000031258_20060925162304.jpg

lorenzo lamas is a total crisp

― deej, Thursday, 3 July 2008 21:10 (seventeen years ago)

I invented "co's before hoes," which is used in the scenario when you want a cousin to hang out with you but he wants to crash a high school party and "clown on some fools," in his words.

― clotpoll, Friday, 4 July 2008 01:31 (seventeen years ago)

Some highly restricted useage issues there.

― Aimless, Friday, 4 July 2008 01:33 (seventeen years ago)

Chesticles, I SWEAR DOWN I did, I even can document it because I was 'passing a note' (this is a bad story) and I wrote that down for reasons unknown. Also I think I did come up with asspie too (on these boards!).
Oh and 'show ponys'...for people who were overly PDA.
Shugly which is actually a horribly insulting term about Sheffield and its fine, fine people so I won't go into it.

― VeronaInTheClub, Friday, 4 July 2008 01:36 (seventeen years ago)

I also invented the phrase "as dead as a whippet on a pikestaff" to desribe something that is dead.

― Aimless, Friday, 4 July 2008 17:46 (seventeen years ago)

Oooh, I have one! In high school lots of the gino girls called guys "solid," so we used to call them variances on "house" because houses are solid. So there'd be a guy who was a total condo, a basement apartment, a mansion, etc etc. We had lots of boyfriends, FYI

― Finefinemusic, Friday, 4 July 2008 17:56 (seventeen years ago)

"I have to drop the kids off at school" - aka take a crap

― CaptainLorax, Friday, 4 July 2008 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

Tracer, gunge is even in my dictionary you crazy cat. It doesn't credit you in the etymology.
-- N., Friday, 15 March 2002

"i can't remember if i made this up or not" !!!!

― the pinefox, Friday, 4 July 2008 20:57 (seventeen years ago)

I mean, really - the word was GUNGE!

― the pinefox, Friday, 4 July 2008 20:57 (seventeen years ago)

funny to revisit the Rorty discussion above (which I had entirely forgotten), and remember that Terry Eagleton wrote in 1990 that Rorty actually happened to mean 'clubbable'.

― the pinefox, Friday, 4 July 2008 20:58 (seventeen years ago)

didn't invent it but just came up with "JESUS FUCKING DAMN" which felt v. good indeed

― Just got offed, Friday, 4 July 2008 22:13 (seventeen years ago)

I invented the terms "grindie" and "nu rave"

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 4 July 2008 22:15 (seventeen years ago)

I invented the term 'god-sozzled' to describe people drunken with religion.

― Aimless, Friday, 4 July 2008 23:39 (seventeen years ago)

My friend and I always say "juste en case" pronounced zhoost on koss, because it sounds French for "just in case". It's not.

― craven, Saturday, 5 July 2008 00:00 (seventeen years ago)

Grogus. Gross (or grody) and bogus.
But my friend invented it, I think.

― aimurchie, Saturday, 5 July 2008 00:17 (seventeen years ago)

My friend said "taking a digger" to mean "falling off your bicycle", which I insisted I'd never heard in my life and that the real definition of "taking a digger" is "pooping in the woods". But then all my friends insisted I was crazy and that they had never heard that in their lives and that I must have made it up.

Did I invent this usage?

― RabiesAngentleman, Saturday, 5 July 2008 00:24 (seventeen years ago)

My son Rufus invented the phrase "like a crow for"
In his usage:
"I'm like a crow for cheetos"
"I'm like a crow for corns"
"Today at daycare, Jason was like a crow for the hamburgers people didn't want to eat."

― Maria :D, Saturday, 5 July 2008 01:19 (seventeen years ago)

coins not corns

― Maria :D, Saturday, 5 July 2008 01:20 (seventeen years ago)

I'm with your friends there Rabies.

― aimurchie, Saturday, 5 July 2008 03:02 (seventeen years ago)

But you definitely had a lot to deal with there!

― aimurchie, Saturday, 5 July 2008 03:29 (seventeen years ago)

All of which was grogus.

― aimurchie, Saturday, 5 July 2008 03:52 (seventeen years ago)

karachi handshake

― am0n, Saturday, 5 July 2008 03:55 (seventeen years ago)

I am definitely adopting "Like a crow for.." in my day to day conversation.
I'll preface it: "Like they say, I'm a crow for your hamburgers."

Golf is pedestrian.

― aimurchie, Saturday, 5 July 2008 04:44 (seventeen years ago)

(Sorry, I guess I ignored the "phrase" part of the question.)

― aimurchie, Saturday, 5 July 2008 04:58 (seventeen years ago)

Also I think I did come up with asspie too

WTF. OK maybe you came up with that misspelling?

― Trayce, Saturday, 5 July 2008 05:03 (seventeen years ago)

I invented the phrase 'fossil dong' about two minutes ago. I expect some sort of use for it will emerge eventually.

― Aimless, Saturday, 5 July 2008 05:33 (seventeen years ago)

Let's hope it doesn't apply to you!

― aimurchie, Saturday, 5 July 2008 05:42 (seventeen years ago)

polo is equestrian

― Maria :D, Saturday, 5 July 2008 13:26 (seventeen years ago)

Unless it is water polo.

As for the self-applicability of fossil dong, only time will tell. (I too hope not.)

― Aimless, Saturday, 5 July 2008 17:32 (seventeen years ago)

'de-plugatize' meaning to unplug and electrical appliance.

― mei, Saturday, 5 July 2008 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

alone together

― Maria :D, Saturday, 5 July 2008 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

for fuck and shame

― Mackro Mackro, Saturday, 5 July 2008 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

oh yeah

"I kill you now ;-)"

― Mackro Mackro, Saturday, 5 July 2008 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

(although that was obviously *inspired* by someone else)

― Mackro Mackro, Saturday, 5 July 2008 18:59 (seventeen years ago)

In it's classic form would that not be, "Heavens! I kill you now." ??

― Aimless, Saturday, 5 July 2008 19:37 (seventeen years ago)

>"I have to drop the kids off at school" - aka take a crap

c'mon! that's just a variation on "drop the kids off at the pool", which is old as the hills!

― Bill A, Sunday, 6 July 2008 18:22 (seventeen years ago)

well it is a new variation

― CaptainLorax, Monday, 7 July 2008 02:35 (seventeen years ago)

Sunday NYT magazine just invented gringe - grin and cringe.

― aimurchie, Monday, 7 July 2008 05:40 (seventeen years ago)

Shroud of Urine - please pause card game while I go for a piss.

― Hard like armour, Monday, 7 July 2008 06:29 (seventeen years ago)

I invented CBATG, as a shorthand for lazy bloggers.

― mike t-diva, Monday, 7 July 2008 10:39 (seventeen years ago)

Captain Beaky at the Guardian?

― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 7 July 2008 10:59 (seventeen years ago)

(it's just a guess, I couldn't be arsed to Google it...)

― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 7 July 2008 10:59 (seventeen years ago)

Cannot be arsed to google?

― Alba, Monday, 7 July 2008 11:07 (seventeen years ago)

Ha - just Googled you and I'm right. Perhaps I saw your blog before and it slipped into my unconscious. GOOD BRAIN.

― Alba, Monday, 7 July 2008 11:09 (seventeen years ago)

Oh dear - I just saw Marcello's post above. Perhaps it was that that slipped into my unconscious...

― Alba, Monday, 7 July 2008 11:09 (seventeen years ago)

i just described my friend's poetry as Gothomoric because it was gothic and quite sophomoric.

According to google it's a brand new word. No matches! Nothing for "Gothomore" either, which is silly because what else is there to call a Goth Sophomore??

Anyway, how do i contact the dictionary people to claim my award?

― Slumpman, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:09 (seventeen years ago)

ten years pass...

when i was a teenager i thought i invented that high-pitched "whoooooooo!!!" people do at rock concerts when a great song has just finished

― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 26 May 2019 15:10 (seven years ago)

I invented the phrase "vital skull custard". It may be freely applied to any custard-like substance existing in the head, giving it a notable versatility that other phrases often lack.

― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 26 May 2019 19:58 (seven years ago)

Freeness Envy, for that feeling when you're going to work, and observing retired/homeless/etc people in the park.

The Satan Growl, that vocal style common to Death Metal singers.

― nickn, Sunday, 26 May 2019 20:04 (seven years ago)

And it looks like Dan Perry invented the latter, although I do remember using it and thinking I invented it.

― nickn, Sunday, 26 May 2019 20:08 (seven years ago)

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