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In this age of "teh" and "noize," it's easy to forget our fallen soldiers who have served us so well. "Grebt" has gone the way of the dodo. "Pants" was taken from us much too soon.

This is the thread where we reminisce and leave flowers.

― Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"humor" and "sense"

― experimental grandma (deangulberry), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i still use "grebt."

― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

You go, girl. Go.

― andy, Friday, 22 October 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Pants is straightforward UK college slang, it's day will come again.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Me must revive it around here immediately. It may be the best pejorative modifier ever.

― Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Me = We. Though I guess I could try to go it alone...

― Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i use pants in real life all the time.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, now I'm worried that if I start using it in real life, I'll be the annoying guy who uses British slang even though he's not British.

― Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"Show me the Money!" or "Show me the .. *Funny!" Neither of those really get much laughs around here no more.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i say pants all the time as well, tho i shouldn't

i am doing my best to resist 'rub'

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I R missing BLURILLAZ.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The BLURILLAZ will never really leave us.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

'Pants' is awful, sorry, within or without ILX.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Not as awful as Mingin.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

No, worse. Minging was all right when it was just northern slang. For some reason, saying it with a southern accent is just shit.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

oh Alba that's such parnts

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't knoe about Britain, but in America "pants" is just a funny-ass word. I think it's that pinched "a" sound.

― Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i never understood "blurillaz"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The roots of its awfulness lie in people thinking that certain words sound intrinsically funny, I think.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno. Cause it's Gorillaz, but it's Damon Albarn, so it's Blur, too?

― Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

N are you seriosuly denying the comedic power of cadence?

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

All that ROXOR/SUXOR/FUXOR stuff seems to have passed the way of all flesh too, no?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

No, but its all about context, steve. No word is funny in itself, or at least not repeatedly.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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Hey, you're right.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Try this: "pickled chickens giggle!"

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Alternately: "monkeyspunk!"

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

its no 'spicy chicken bitch'

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

There's someone at work who says 'discombobulated' all the time, in the belief that is funny so to do.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"Quince" makes me giggle.

I'm partial to "monkeyspAnk", myself.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

k- as a prefix seems to have vanished too.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I think "the proverbial egg in the briefcase" is the ultimate answer to this thread. It was an odd expression I used once, tried to perpetuate as a meme, but only nickalicious ever actually used it. It died a quick and painful death.

Find threads from I Love Everything, containing egg briefcase.
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Fake ILX memes (3 matching messages)

Ha ha, proverbial egg in the briefcase. I still think it's funny.
-- NA (naamm...), April 30th, 2004.

Metaphors you have to work the "real-life" equivalent of backwards because you've never encountered them in real life before (1 matching message)

This thread is the proverbial egg in the briefcase.
-- NA (emmaa...), November 17th, 2003.

Group Hug effort Falls Short (1 matching message)

the proverbial egg in the briefcase
-- nickalicious (nza2342...), November 3rd, 2003.

PROVERBIAL and other tip offs to poor writing (1 matching message)

Yes! The first appearance of "the proverbial egg in the briefcase"!
*sigh*

-- NA (naamm...), January 6th, 2004.

Phone rage!!!1 (1 matching message)

EVERY! SINGLE! DAY! I get calls from people looking for "Marty". If I ever find this dingleberry "Marty", well, let's just say I'll put the proverbial egg in his proverbial briefcase nyuck nyuck.
-- nickalicious (nza2342...), November 13th, 2003.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Note that the majority of these uses are actually me talking about how I unsuccessfully tried to get people to use this phrase.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

There's someone at work who says 'discombobulated' all the time, in the belief that is funny so to do.

As you are British, I am imagining David Brent.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 October 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, that's mean. She's quite nice really, but she's just fetishizes words in a slightly tedious way.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i still drop 'hurts my head like a thousand dogs' 'eat a bag of cocks' IRL all the time

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 22 October 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

It's "eat a bag of dicks."

Now you know what you must do.

― Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Friday, 22 October 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

That look like a KFC bucket.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 22 October 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Who stores dicks glans-end-down?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 22 October 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

a coworker of mine told my old boss to eat a bag of dicks. he was promptly fired.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 22 October 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I miss the term "eaty".

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 23 October 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Now you're talking.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 23 October 2004 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel in agreement with Alba, on this thread!

I think I mean that maybe both he and I don't like slack, dull, lazy, bad pseudo-humour.

― the bellefox, Saturday, 23 October 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I do not lament the demise of "use other _______ please". It always seemed a bit offhand and cruel.

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 23 October 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

It is offhand and cruel, but good, I think.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 23 October 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"It always seemed a bit offhand and cruel."

Therein lay its brilliance, surely?

ha x-post.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 23 October 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

But I want everyone to love each other!

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 23 October 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, but first they must improve.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 23 October 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

first they much kill each other

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 23 October 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

sheesh

― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Thursday, 25 December 2008 13:44 (seventeen years ago)

seven years pass...

The "grebt" revivalist movement begins now

― ELECTION (no comey I) (El Tomboto), Monday, 31 October 2016 21:25 (nine years ago)

i have never stopped using grebt

― mark s, Monday, 31 October 2016 21:27 (nine years ago)

I had to stop myself from using "K-awesome" in conversation last week.

― how's life, Monday, 31 October 2016 21:37 (nine years ago)

well of course you wouldn't! I imagine you right-clicking and selecting "Add to Dictionary" every time they futz with your computering machines

― ELECTION (no comey I) (El Tomboto), Monday, 31 October 2016 21:37 (nine years ago)

XP to mark s obv

btw how many times have people used exactly that sequence around here can we run a "price is right" style number guessing game

― ELECTION (no comey I) (El Tomboto), Monday, 31 October 2016 21:39 (nine years ago)

haha that is actually p accurate (except my dictionary is just my brain)

― mark s, Monday, 31 October 2016 22:05 (nine years ago)

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