The Joy of Slang

[The Rube]

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I remembered one of my favorites today, and it's used around here once in a while (I first heard it from one of my buddies).

"I had too much booze last night. Now I feel like a bag of dicks."

 

[zamboni crash-test dummy]

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I'll take this thread down to the lowest common denominator with a few bodily functions :

pinch a loaf
wax the dolphin
pay the water bill
a fly just broke the sound barrier

 

[The Rube]

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I'll take this thread down to the lowest common denominator with a few bodily functions :

pinch a loaf
wax the dolphin
pay the water bill
a fly just broke the sound barrier

pulling the goalie
snapping the shotgun
hitting a solo HR
Jimmy (named after former Gophers' coach Jim Wacker; "Did you Jimmy last night?" "Oh, you know it!")

Visiting the Cleveland Browns
seeing a man about a horse (still never got that one)
takin' a Marek (Marek Malik)
takin' a Dante (Dante Bichette)

 

[melmac]

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pulling the goalie
snapping the shotgun
hitting a solo HR
Jimmy (named after former Gophers' coach Jim Wacker; "Did you Jimmy last night?" "Oh, you know it!")

Visiting the Cleveland Browns
seeing a man about a horse (still never got that one)
takin' a Marek (Marek Malik)
takin' a Dante (Dante Bichette)

Dropping the kids off at the pool.

 

[The Rube]

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One that circulated amongst my friends started by complete accident. One idiot buddy of mine wanted to know if, um, oral happened between me and my then gf the night before. Trouble was, she was within hearing distance.

Buddy 1: So, did (x) give you-
Buddy 2 (thinking quickly): the twenty bucks she owed him? Yeah, she did.

So now, "twenty bucks" is our slang for that.

 

[leswp1]

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Heard one recently that was new to me, a guy described someone as "dumber than a bag of hammers".

Mr Les came up "dumber than a rail" as in 'dumber than a fence post' but posts don't need help to stand. Rails are so stupid they cant think of anything themselves.

"brighter than a lightbulb" (ie stupid as a box of rocks)

 

[Lady wore Black]

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My personal favorites.
"Personality of a left-handed doughnut."
"They are so stupid, they can get lost in a phone booth."

Another popular saying with my husband and brother-in-law is replacing certain words with "fat." Example: "You fatted my sandwich!" or "Quit fatting the computer."

 

[The Rube]

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Mr Les came up "dumber than a rail" as in 'dumber than a fence post' but posts don't need help to stand. Rails are so stupid they cant think of anything themselves.

"brighter than a lightbulb" (ie stupid as a box of rocks)

Or to borrow from a couple local radio guys:

I'm not the brightest bulb in the drawer.
I'm not the sharpest knife in the tree.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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One of my favorite hockey-related ones is when a goalie gets schooled by some nasty deke, and so he got "Turco'd"

 

[amherstblackbear]

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Obligatory Mystery, Alaska reference:

"It isn't rocket surgery."

I've plagiarized that line a couple times. Always gets a smile.

 

[Twitch Boy]

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One of my favorite hockey-related ones is when a goalie gets schooled by some nasty deke, and so he got "Turco'd"

In the same vein, a "Hasek" is when the goalie comes 80 feet out of the crease to play a puck for no reason...and a "Lawson" is when he gets clocked by his own defenseman in the process

 

[The Rube]

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(c) Dirty, a few years back:

She was so dumb, you'd ask her what 2 + 2 is, and she'd hold up a bowl of jello and say "Green."




Have gotten PLENTY of laughs and WT Effs on that one.

Twitch: whoa whoa whoa. A Hasek is actually a (Jon) Casey. Just saying.

 

[thecomicbookguy]

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A certain friend of mine meant to shout "Fail!" while watching a runner get gunned down at home plate, but it came out "False!" I've started using that.

Obligatory Mystery, Alaska reference:

"It isn't rocket surgery."

I've plagiarized that line a couple times. Always gets a smile.

I use that one all the time (though not because of the movie).

One of my favorite hockey-related ones is when a goalie gets schooled by some nasty deke, and so he got "Turco'd"

Don't forget a goalie/player does well in the Regular Season and then falls apart in the playoffs: "He Cloutiered." (doesn't get used much anymore)

And when something just generally sucks, it Matt Cookes.

 

[melmac]

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A friend of mine at a game once yelled to the players on the ice to "Run!" I've taken to donig that now. Usually, it's, "Run faster!"

 

[The Rube]

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And when something just generally sucks, it Matt Cookes.

And if you have a long losing streak, you are "Prairie Viewing."

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Oh almost forgot. I like it when human errors occur in a database record, and the person who mistyped the data, "fat-fingered it".

 

[thecomicbookguy]

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In the same vein, a "Hasek" is when the goalie comes 80 feet out of the crease to play a puck for no reason...and a "Lawson" is when he gets clocked by his own defenseman in the process

I thought a Hasek was when a skater brushes the goalie, and the goalie falls down like he's been shot.

 

[The Rube]

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Oh almost forgot. I like it when human errors occur in a database record, and the person who mistyped the data, "fat-fingered it".

Human errors are "One D Ten T" errors. Simply put: 1D10T errors.

And this really works well at my work, where our product SKU's follow the number-letter-two numbers-letter format.

I thought a Hasek was when a skater brushes the goalie, and the goalie falls down like he's been shot.

A Hasek to me is when he flops around like a fish, not knowing what he's exactly doing, and somehow makes a great save or two.

 

[thecomicbookguy]

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A Hasek to me is when he flops around like a fish, not knowing what he's exactly doing, and somehow makes a great save or two.

Ah yes, that was the first definition. I believe mine is a secondary definition.

Tim Thomas got a nice contract for his ability to Hasek.

 

[Carter]

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A friend of mine at a game once yelled to the players on the ice to "Run!" I've taken to donig that now. Usually, it's, "Run faster!"

Reminds me of a visiting fan at a Badger women's hockey game last year. Every time, and I mean every effin' time a player on his team got the puck, he'd yell "Hurry!" Not slang, just stupid.