Expressions you and a few other people use but aren't common

[trappedslider]

Me and my mom and some parts of our family would borrow phrases from tv shows "This is bad on so many levels" from The West Wing or "That can't be good" from Whose Line is it Anyway

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

One from my college days:

“_______ is bad like slugs are bad.”

 

[Richards]

We have a couple in our family.

"Don't be a gooboo" - "gooboo" is somehow a shortened version of "goof butt."​

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"Well, that's suboptimal" - said whenever anything bad happens.​

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"Don't be a butt on purpose" - my nephew says this to me when I irritate him.​

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"Yes, yes, I can do that which you ask. But someday, I too will have a favor to ask. And on that day--" - a quote from the Daria show we use whenever someone asks us to do them a favor. Usually responded with "Never mind."​

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"Will you put my feet on?" - my wife, asking me to help her put on her slippers.​

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Johnathan

 

[Barner Cobblewood]

You lose bug.

Funny how memory of pre-adolescence works. All I know is that this is common knowledge.

 

[Barner Cobblewood]

“PANTS!”

A friend of mine was helping me sort my massive comic book collection by title,a process that took a few rooms. We had been at the task for a few hours, and he brought something over to me to tell him where to put it.

I knew what it was, and where it belonged- I pointed at the intended destination…but couldn’t come up with the word to identify where it belonged among the various possible destinations.

I kept gesticulating, “Those go on the…over there on the…the thing…uhhhh…on…PANTS!”

(I meant the sofa.)

Since then, shouting “PANTS!” when struggling to find a particular word has become our thing.

I use it when someone has forgotten something important.

 

[Richards]

I thought of a couple more:

"It's all in a day's work, for...Bicycle Repairman" - quote from a Monty Python sketch, used in response to being thanked for something.​

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"Hello? ... ERRRRRRMMMPP! Wrong answer! Thanks for playing!" - said when you get one of those spam phone calls where they don't say anything (or start their pre-recorded message) right away. Followed immediately with hanging up the phone.​

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Johnathan

 

[Aeson]

Muffin time; is that time of the night that even the word muffin is funny. You've all been there, you probably have a different term for it.

 

[SkidAce]

“PANTS!”

A friend of mine was helping me sort my massive comic book collection by title,a process that took a few rooms. We had been at the task for a few hours, and he brought something over to me to tell him where to put it.

I knew what it was, and where it belonged- I pointed at the intended destination…but couldn’t come up with the word to identify where it belonged among the various possible destinations.

I kept gesticulating, “Those go on the…over there on the…the thing…uhhhh…on…PANTS!”

(I meant the sofa.)

Since then, shouting “PANTS!” when struggling to find a particular word has become our thing.

Similar situation...

"The other guy is also a witness, get his statement too."

"What guy?"

"That guy over there!"

"WHAT GUY?"

"THAT GUY!, the one with the, uh ah, ARMS!"

 

[Arnie_Wan_Kenobi]

Borrowed from a friend who's a scout leader, my wife and I use "Maximum Fun has been reached" - that moment when everything HAD just been going great and someone (typically a child) gets tired/hungry/overstimulated and crashes out.

"It's a Moral Imperative" and the entire "I had the weirdest dream..."/"Why am I the only one who has that deeam?" bit from Real Genius, a movie that I'm pretty sure 95% of the people on this site have seen and 95% of the people I interact with on a daily basis have not.

 

[trappedslider]

"It's a Moral Imperative" from Real Genius

that's another one we used to use, also from WliiA "fluff your garfield"