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1. • CommentAuthorRictus
   • CommentTimeMar 27th 2009

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   The phrase "Sit your monkey-ass down" will be popular for many many years.
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     CommentAuthorLabyrinthine
   • CommentTimeMar 27th 2009

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   I've found myself saying "cripes!" a lot lately, which I don't hear often. It's because "Christ!" has a nice ring to it but when i realised I'd started using it I felt weird because I have never been within a Bacon of Christianity, and cripes sounds vaguely similar but less loaded. Anyone know where it's from? Is it like giblets?
   
   Also a phrase I use: "for to" as in "I went down to the markets for to buy some bread." I just like the rhythm.
3. • CommentAuthorIndigo Rose
   • CommentTimeMar 27th 2009 edited

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   I think the only real problem with the word retard, or retarded, is that it was used to indicate the mentally disabled in the first place. Granted it is true, but it was used in an insulting way. And people have become overly sensitive to it. Using it in everyday language, where it is appropriate, is not a problem. Even indicating that something is retarded, because you think it's stupid or bad, is a correct usage if the thing/event in question is not ... as good as it should be, not up to standard.
   
   Gay, as slang, is obnoxious because it can only be one of two things; "that's so happy!" or "that's such a homosexual". Thus, it IS insulting to homosexual people, unless used to indicate something possitive, whereas "retard" or "retarded" does not have to be.
   
   I do like anon. I actually use quite a few of the words and phrases mentioned here, but there is one phrase I wish people would use correctly. "I COULDN"T care less" rather than "I could care less"... enough said.
4. • CommentAuthorSteadyUP
   • CommentTimeMar 27th 2009 edited

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   @Rose - precisely. If I feel that, say, Heroes isn't at all living up to its potential, "that show is retarded" is a valid statement, and casts no aspersions on anyone other than the people who make it.
5. • CommentAuthorIndigo Rose
   • CommentTimeMar 27th 2009

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   Thank you, good example.
6. • CommentAuthorENGINE
   • CommentTimeMar 27th 2009

    (5380.106)
   While we're on the topic of emotional ejaculations (hurhur) I frequently yell "hellfire and damnation!" to puzzled looks all 'round, as well as "Christ on a crutch," which, to be honest, I don't know the origin of.
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     CommentAuthorwarrenellis
   • CommentTimeMar 27th 2009

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   I like Joe Straczynski, but if he really thinks people stopped using "anon," then it really is time for him to get the fuck out of LA.