10-17-2005, 08:11 PM | #2 |
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I'd give that list a little more credit if I had ever heard more than 5 of them before. Have these words really become "mainstream"?
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10-17-2005, 08:15 PM | #3 |
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I say several words on that list all the time.
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10-17-2005, 08:20 PM | #4 |
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Most of these words are perfectly cromulent.
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10-17-2005, 08:24 PM | #5 | |
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10-17-2005, 08:54 PM | #6 |
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I think I've heard one of them.
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10-17-2005, 09:15 PM | #7 |
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I think it is interesting (and probably a bit scary) that I have actually used about half of these words in conversation.
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10-17-2005, 10:18 PM | #8 |
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Dont forget Gwygibo (sp?): A balding north american ape.
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10-17-2005, 10:26 PM | #9 |
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I think the sadder thing is that I know exactly in what context to use these words because I remember what scenes they are from
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10-17-2005, 10:28 PM | #10 |
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10-17-2005, 11:13 PM | #11 |
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They missed the dreaded rear admiral.
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10-18-2005, 07:30 AM | #13 |
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Sorry, I'm not trying to troll here. I haven't watched The Simpsons in about 10 years, so I've never heard or don't remember most of these words. I just took the word "mainstream" to mean that you could hear these words from people even if you don't watch the show. Evidently, I just don't really know anybody who watches it, so that must be why I don't hear the words. I think I get it now.
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10-18-2005, 08:15 AM | #14 |
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This seems like one of those lists that probably started with a half dozen really good choices, and then everyone started adding everything they could think of.
That said, some of those really are mainstream. I think it's just accepted now that whenever you take something (a pen, a donut, etc) you have to say "yoink".
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10-18-2005, 09:49 AM | #17 |
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Brad Lidge's craptacular hanging slider embiggened Albert Pujols' bat.
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10-18-2005, 10:19 AM | #18 |
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10-18-2005, 10:55 AM | #20 |
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In an unrelated question, has looking up dorky information on Wikipedia become cool? It seems to be very prevalent lately, between this and the salute to Chancellor Palpatine.
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10-18-2005, 10:59 AM | #21 |
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I've never said "yoink" in my life. I've never heard it before either. I must have a problem.
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10-18-2005, 11:20 AM | #23 | |
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I dunno- wikipedia's been "mainstream internet" for quite a while. I noticed it getting a bit more prevalent for looking stuff up when Trillian included wikiwords. SI
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48 Jebeditis = when Jeeber starts a post frenzy at FOFC?
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10-18-2005, 06:31 PM | #26 |
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They got 'trampampopoline' wrong. They left out a syllable.
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10-18-2005, 07:11 PM | #28 |
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"Trampampoline" looks right to me.
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10-26-2005, 01:20 PM | #32 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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I was using "groin-grabbingly...." years before the Simpsons.
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Yoink!
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