Catch phrases that you use in everyday speech

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EST120

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:36 PM

I have noticed on this board that people are very fond of using slang from Firefly as part of their everyday vernacular. I was wondering what catchy phrases from movies or TV shows that people use in their daily lives?

I tend to use the ubiquitous "D'oh" from The Simpsons as I imagine many people do. I also use variations of the phrase "getting all bendy" from Firefly when I am referring to getting upset or out of sorts.

MICJWELCH

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:53 PM

My wife really gets tired of all the movie lines I use all the time. Especially from Firefly, and from The Princess Bride. And some from Toy Story. A lot of others come out at random too.

Yesterday in programming the teacher was trying to type dbl (double). Well, he put bbl. Somebody told him he typed bubble, and I couldn't help it. "The Bubbles!" Then somebody else - "My Bubbles."

"We may experience some slight turbulence, and then... explode."

MAGDALENA

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:00 PM

A friend and I almost got the giggles at a funeral when someone mispronounced eulogy - we both love watching and quoting Zooliander so all we could think of was Eu-goo-goolizing... not good timeing though...

Bubbles get mentioned quite a bit in the household where I nanny! When ever I make them wash their hands with soap I hover over the sink and say 'my bubbles'

Same friend (Zoolander) and I say 'He-llo' in the spaced out way of the alcoholic who pretends to be Goldie Hawn's mother in 'House-sitter'

I also like to say 'Are you makin' fun of me Riz?' like Sandra D in Grease...

Oh there are so many!

CYBERSNARK

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:07 PM

"Not so much" from Firefly.

(Few months back, MuchMusic announced their new season lineup --heavy on the talk shows, reality TV, and newsmags. One of my friends complained that it was going the way of MTV in the 90s, and I agreed, calling it Not-So-MuchMusic. Took me a full minute to realize why that sounded familiar. )

I've let slip a few deadpan "Because I do that" comebacks (from Webb on The Inside), when people accuse me of doing something they should know full well I never do.

Teal'c's "Indeed" is useful for so many situations, especially when one is surrounded by morons but doesn't care enough to argue with them when they say something completely wrong.

"By your command" is for when someone gives me orders (especially when said order endangers my well-being for their benefit). Of course, there is exactly one other person in this town who knows anything about sci-fi, so most people just assume I'm being rude.

I've quoted Andromeda's Harper a few times ("Lucky for you I'm a freakin' genius").

Rev Bem's funeral blessing "Eternal life grant unto him/her/them, may perpetual light shine upon him/her/them" is mumbled whenever someone dies or I pass the grave of a loved one. I also occasionally use Rev's mantra ("My pain/hunger/rage/fear/exhaustion is of the Divine. It is like wind, it is like water. It surrounds me, but is not of me. I am untouched." as a meditation when I need to reject something.

"I'm Batman" is kinda a meme among comic geeks for any act of random badassitude. Among Transfans (or readers of Walky's webcomics), it's a meme for any act of random silliness-taken-way-too-seriously.

"Frell" is my default curse (Yeah, I know, but Chinese is too hard to remember). I'm also tending more toward "frack fracking frackity-frack," which is a BSG-style riff on something Nathan said.

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MONKSDAD

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:37 PM

Shiny, is my official replacement for saying cool.... I say inconcievable all the time (princess bride)... I talk backwards and every which way like yoda sometimes...I have been sayiing gorram alot also but nobody seems to notice because it sounds so much like god damn....and i quote Kung fu alot

"And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community."

DARKFLY

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:54 PM

Well as soon as I started to watch Firefly I started using the words gorram & gorramit a lot & started to use shiny more often but at first I used the words on purpose but a short while later I use them without even thinking.

As for other words,I use Doh a lot,even my Dad which doesn't like or watch the The Simpsons uses the word Doh.

Other words I like...
The word smeg & it's variations from Red Dwarf,
freck from BSG is one of my favorite words,
frell from Farscape,
Fong Luh,Ta Ma Dah,& Hwoon dahn! from Firefly.

And as for lines form Films I like to use,"Define interesting"..."Oh God Oh God we're all going to die".

But I really only use the words Shiny, Gorram, Gorramit, Freck, Fong Luh, Ta Ma Dah,& Hwoon dahn! in every day situations & conversations.

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Things are about to get interesting...Define interesting...Oh GOD oh GOD we're all going to die.

CRUITHNE3753

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:55 PM

Ironic "Fantastic" in a Lancashire accent, in the manner of a certain Doctor... have't had much chance using any Fireflyisms yet, "piece of go-se" would probably be the most likely.

AGENTRUSCO

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:13 PM

I cannot get through a conversation without at least one qoute from a movie or show. I am absolutely serious.

I use the normal Firefly phrases and words such as "gorram", "shiny", "not so much", "pretty much", "all kindsa-", and more in normal ways. But when a situation reminds me of something, out comes the full show quotes.

Yesterday, I wished someone to "have good biology" as she went to class. She didn't get it, but my roommate did.

Once, at work, in the porta-loo, my pants button popped off. I said "did the button just fall off my gorram pants for no apparent reason?" then aswered: "looks like" and burst into laughter.

I also tend to break into Firefly induced Chinese cursing. I'm not totally sure I have the words down, but the idea is there.

As for other things nonFirefly, I also quote every other movie I've ever seen.

I say 'precious' an awful lot, and things about the 'Force'. A couple years ago I wrote a crossover parody of a line I said. "The Force has you, precious." Three huge trillogies there.

Right now can't realy think of much more. But seriously, I cannot get through a conversation without some quotes. It is part of me.

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ESTHER

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:28 PM

Other than Firefly? Hmmm....

I know, it's old, but I still use Mr. Spock's "fascinating" and try to pronounce it his way. Or seven of Nines "XYZ is irrelevant".

I have a client, who actually signes his business mails with "live long and prosper" (the German Version of it, anyways).

Esther

Love my captain!

GABRIEL

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:39 PM

If we expand the question to include novels, fiction etc...

From the Dark Tower series:

palaver, say thank'ya, long days and pleasant nights, an't please ya, talking's done.

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RIVER: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are.
MAL: Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?

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