A Poke in the Eye
It's funny how some people have a favorite phrase that they employ at every opportunity. I had a health teacher once whose favorite phrase was "This, that, and everything." For instance, he'd say something like, "Don't forget there's a test tomorrow, and you'll be expected to know this, that and everything." Everybody and their brother was supposed to be ready for the test.
I also worked for a guy in Van Nuys, who ran one of the very first computer stores, and his phrase was "It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick!" You could complain about anything, about the valley heat, and you could rely on him to reply, "It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick." If I had a nickel for every time he said that...
Do you know anybody like that? What favorite phrases have you encountered in life?
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Posted 10/17/2005 11:30:00 PM
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6 Comments:
"beats a sharp stick in the eye" was one of the standards when I was growing up, along with "best thing since canned beer and sliced bread".
My favorite has got to be when I moved to the south and ran into "Ah'd ruther run through hayull with gasoline drawers on."
LOL! Sounds like something Dan Rather would say. Thanks for fluttering on by. :)
I know a manager at work who, whenever anything goes wrong or someone complains, she always says "next time what will you do different?" For example, a nurse may complain that a patient sexually assaulted her and she'll reply "next time what will you do different?"
Melissa - So no one has killed that manager yet, eh?
My husband says things like he's "hungry enough to eat the @ss end out of a running buffalo", or "it's raining harder than a cow peeing on a flat rock".
"...and so on and so forth."
Drove me nuts!
My science teacher in junior high school. He ended practically every sentence with that unnecessary phrase.
And there's a phrase that Sean and I use with each other just to make the other laugh. We stole it from Dave Letterman, actually. LOL, it sounds really silly out of context, but it's "In my PANTS!". You have to say it exaggeratedly and a bit loud on the 'PANTS' and the idea is to answer a question with it. Um, we don't mean it literally. ;) In fact it's best when we use it totally randomly. Like the other day I said to Sean 'Have you seen the garlic press?' and he said 'Hmm, maybe it's In my PANTS! Or once, after I came home from grocery shopping, he looked at what I was carrying and asked me if I'd remembered to pick up some water bottles. I answered "Yep. I got 24 water bottles. In my PANTS!"
[We then laughed all night at the thought of 24 Aquafinas literally being in my pants.]
Sometimes we try to outdo each other with the best 'In my PANTS!' usage. Of course, we can't do it all the time because it would get old; timing is everything. But we get PANTSy often.
We are so weird and nerdy [...and so on and so forth...]
Hey, that guy stole my phrase!
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