I am SO sick of hearing people quote that "Milkshake" song, since it's been about a year and a half since it first came out, and people still modify a word and fill in a name and think they're being witty.

 

There are *still* people who say "you go, girl", "work it" and "all that and a bag of chips" that I know.

 

Anyone have others to add?

 

EDIT: And how could I forget those damn Austin Powers quotes?

Man, I violate more of those than anyone I know so I can't say anything.

 

Word to your mother!

"The bomb" As in "you da bomb!" This wasn't really cool when it was popular and it's not even popular anymore.

 

Any of the "Fo sheezy my neezy" or "Fo shizzle my nizzle" type shit needs to go as well.

 

This isn't really a phrase but "ebonics" needs to leave American culture. There is nothing sadder to me than to listen to teenagers who spout this jibberish and don't know any better. It's fine here and there but there are people who don't know how to speak any other way. Catch phrases and slang are ok sometimes but to bastardize the entire English language is not. How the hell is someone who can't speak anything close to proper English going to get a decent paying job, unless they play professional sports or can rap? This irritates me more than other language offenses beacuse the people who speak like that (regardless of race, there are probably as many white kids who talk this way as black kids) should know better, at least if they were born here. I imagine that every school in the country has an English course or two offered. If the teachers aren't teaching English then they should be fired an replaced by someone who will. Puff Daddy pisses me off because he is capable of speaking proper English in certain situations but then goes on MTV and it's back to the bullshit.

"Word to your mother" has to stick around, just for camp value alone.

 

The Austin Powers quotes, however, can be stuffed into an incinerator with the movies they came from.

Just about anything from Chappelle's Show. I love Dave and think his show's good, but most of the genuinely funny quotes get played out by virtually everyone, even those who don't know what the hell it is they're quoting.

Most of the "clever" nicknames for HHH. Like HGH.

Most of the "clever" nicknames for HHH. Like HGH.

I'm pretty sure that HGH and HHHH adn whatever all disapeared sometime in 2003 when HHH got out of shape.

 

How long have you been here C-Dub? I didn't even realize that you were on the board.

I used to work with this idiot who would go through all the rhyming phrases dozens of times a day. The most common being "See you later alligator" "In a while crocodile" and finally "What's the word Thunderbird?" It got to the point where I couldn't even look at him without laughing. Good thing I quit that place.

I used to work with this idiot who would go through all the rhyming phrases dozens of times a day.  The most common being "See you later alligator" "In a while crocodile" and finally "What's the word Thunderbird?"  It got to the point where I couldn't even look at him without laughing.  Good thing I quit that place.

 

... Oh man, that is fucking hilarious. It's so funny that I don't believe you.

I used to work with a middle aged Italian guy who had every mob movie and TV show committed to memory.

 

You wouldn't think "go get your fuckin' shinebox" would ever get old, but somehow he managed to do it.

I feel lucky. NOBODY around me has ever quoted the Milkshake song.

 

As for outdated phrases, far too many people still say, "WAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZUP???!!!" for my sanity to remain normal.

You wouldn't think "go get your fuckin' shinebox" would ever get old, but somehow he managed to do it.

For some reason, this brought me back to a convo you and I had about Cop Land.

 

When you said you were just waiting for Frank Vincent to say "Now go get your fuckin' shinebox", after I wiped my monitor down from the orange soda I spit all over it, I broke out the Goodfellas DVD just to see that part.

 

I have NEVER laughed so hard.

Most of the "clever" nicknames for HHH. Like HGH.

I'm pretty sure that HGH and HHHH adn whatever all disapeared sometime in 2003 when HHH got out of shape.

 

How long have you been here C-Dub? I didn't even realize that you were on the board.

Around a month.

 

And I still see some people use HGH and some of the others. Mostly at TSM though.

I used to work with this idiot who would go through all the rhyming phrases dozens of times a day.  The most common being "See you later alligator" "In a while crocodile" and finally "What's the word Thunderbird?"  It got to the point where I couldn't even look at him without laughing.  Good thing I quit that place.

 

... Oh man, that is fucking hilarious. It's so funny that I don't believe you.

The stories I could tell from that place...

And I still see some people use HGH and some of the others. Mostly at TSM though.

Well, that's TSM's WWE folder for you. The guy, while probably still on the juice (I doubt he could maintain that mass without it) does not really look like a roid monkey anymore. Batista is the one who should have a "cute" steroid related nickname if anyone should but he looks cool in a suit so he gets a pass. BTW, I have a job interview today and I'm wearing a suit right now, I wonder if I'll get a world title push as well.

"Say my name, bitch" is not funny anymore. Using the word "bitch" isn't really humorous anymore at all, actually.

i agree. "whore" is much funnier, it's more of a non-sequitur.

1. Not so much a phrase but nut-driving all the same: "literally" abuse. I'll let David Cross speak for me: "When you misuse literally, you're using it in the exact opposite way it was meant to be used. It's not like penultimate and ultimate where you're off by one. You just completely fucked up." People did this a lot in high school and I would question them about the event that "literally" happened, using the laughing off of one's ass, the shitting and pissing of pants, and breaking another person in half.

 

2. As summer approaches in the great Midwest, I fear the consequences of air conditioning failure. Because I know that when somebody remarks that "it's getting hot in here," somebody will reply "SO TAKE OFF ALL YOUR CLOTHES" and think he's hot shit.

 

3. I don't know how prevalent this is among people who aren't girls that listened to Lilith Fair artists in the mid 90s, but when somebody remarks that something is "ironic," which 9 times out of 10, is not an instance of irony at all, but rather just a little weird coincidence, someone will add "yeah I really do think!" So first you have irony abuse, then you have someone quoting that damn Alanis Morissette song from 1997. Congratulations. Now I don't like either of you.

 

4. I'M RICK JAMES BITCH or anyone's name in lieu of Rick James

 

5. Talking like Lumburgh from Office Space. This was the big thing in high school. "Oooh. Yeah. Definitely have to do that."

 

6. Again not an outdated phrase so much as a weird lingual quirk, but when I call someplace and the person I'm trying to reach is not in, the person picking up prefaces the notification with "actually" for no specific reason.

 

"Hi, is Jennifer there?"

"Actually, she's not back from school yet, is this Dan?"

 

Why the actually? You're answering a question, not refuting a claim. I asked if she was there. I did not say "JENNIFER IS THERE." Agh. Stop this. Say more, speak less.

3. I don't know how prevalent this is among people who aren't girls that listened to Lilith Fair artists in the mid 90s, but when somebody remarks that something is "ironic," which 9 times out of 10, is not an instance of irony at all, but rather just a little weird coincidence, someone will add "yeah I really do think!" So first you have irony abuse, then you have someone quoting that damn Alanis Morissette song from 1997. Congratulations. Now I don't like either of you.

 

"It's like rain on wedding day, a free ride when you;ve already paid"

 

My sister played that fucking record over and over and over for what seemed like two years before she left for college. I used to know every word to that so and a few others from "Jagged Little Pill" because of it. My sister is also the reason for me knowing most of the words to every Madonna song ever written.

 

Now that I think of it, my sister is outdated and must retire. Thank God she didn't get into Dave Mathews before she left for school. That would have thrown me completely over the edge.

i don't know how old you guys are but I was 20 when Jagged Little pill came out and it was an almost guaranteed home-run if you were taking a girl out and popped in that disc.

20. See I couldn't have been more than 10 or 11. What year did it come out? I wanna say I was in 5th grade, so late 96, early 97.

According to Amazon it was released in 95 and won a Grammy in 96. I turned 14 in 95, so "homeruns" were still a ways away for me. I thought it was obnoxious whining and still do. But who knew that she was talking about Uncle Joey from Full House in "You Outta Know"?

Those crazy canadians.

 

Also, put it in perspective... at the time, there weren't all of these alt-rock girls who got alot of airplay and for that type of album to take off was pretty phenomonal. And if a girl felt listening to Alanis was empowering and put her in a better mood, who was I to deny them?