Outdated phrases that only get used today for bad jokes

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A lot of these show up on the stickers teachers put on kids' assignments because then they can have cute pictures, too.

• Just Ducky!
•You did a Whale of a job!
• Dynamite work!

These also get used in bad comic strips..."Now you're cooking with gas!"

Go go go list thread away!

― Abbott, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 00:04 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I never!

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

You're a star!
Eggs-cellent!
Write-on!

there are also the valentine's card ones too

haha i say "now you're cooking with gas!"

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

It's driving me nuts!

― Slumpman, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

A Benny shaved is a Benny urned.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:35 (eighteen years ago)

just ducky???

― Alan, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

he works at polari school, apparently.

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

"totally tubular!!"

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

"cool beans!"

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

totally fucking mexico

― The Wayward Johnny B, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

How do you like them eggs?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

no one ever said that.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

I have, too, heard someone say that. He was the same bloke who used to regularly come out with "now we're cooking with gas!" as well. Which I had never heard before meeting him.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

Put that in yer pipe and smoke it.

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

I have heard "how dyer like them (cookies?) (cakes?) " back in the day.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

I choo-choo-choose you

― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

As sure as eggs is eggs

― Mark C, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

ok, i use "now we're cooking with gas", "cool beans", and occasionally "how do you like them apples".

but then again i'm 86 years old.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

"A bit of how's yer father"

― chap, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

As sure as eggs is eggs

"...Roxy the Weasel had been scrambled." I have got to watch that film again soon.

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

I use "Now you're cooking with gas!", "Cool beans", "Put that in yer pipe and smoke it.", and "Yer driving me nuts!" irregularly.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

I don't see how "driving me nuts" is outdated.. maybe in Americ.

In what context is "How do you like them eggs" said?

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

duck chat-up lines

along with 'put it on my bill'.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

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― braveclub, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

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― braveclub, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

oh ffs

― braveclub, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

"Looks like your toast is only burned on one side!"

― n/a, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

"Don't use a brick where a pillow will work instead."

― n/a, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

I use "cool beans" but only ironically. I use "how do you like them apples" and "put that in your pipe and smoke it" in earnest.

In what context is "How do you like them eggs" said?

hard to explain... but basically, when you're engaging in some one-upsmanship, hoping to shut somebody up. it may help if you hear it out loud (the emphasis falls very heavily on "them").

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, often followed by "eh???!! eeehhhh?!?!??!" type exclamations.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

People accuse me of using wildly outdated slang all the time. Sometimes I expect it, but sometimes not. The other day a woman got very excited because I used the phrase "easy peasy", which she thought she was the last person alive using, or something.

― Casuistry, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Not to be confused with "how do you like them eggs in the morning, I like mine with a kiss" or however the song goes.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

'chappaquiddick'

― and what, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

xpost...or indeed, "unfertilised - fuck off"

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

ooh, another one that I've picked up lately is "go pound sand". but I'm still waiting for an opportunity to use my newly-minted ultimate expression of contempt, "go pound sand into a rope and piss up it".

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

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