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Have you ever coined a phrase or saying that's become widely used?

SoundAsa£
SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,485
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Many years ago I was in The Chelsea Arts Club of all places with a group of musso faces(about a dozen of us having lunch) and someone mentioned someone (I don't remember exactly who it was) as being a leg-end.....ie.....a legend.
I then piped up with....."yes, and what's more he's a leg-end in his own lunchtime." General laughter all round.
Now, the term 'legend in his own lunchtime' has over the years become quite a well known quip.
I said it without having ever heard it from anyone else.......I genuinely thought of it myself.
I've often wondered if my silly throw away comment all those years ago brought the expression into being.......a crazy notion some might think, but I'd like to think it's true.
Certainly none of the people there that day had heard it said before.
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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,608
    Itchy beard, Jimmy Hill.
  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune Posts: 10,773
    Yeah, I was definitely the first to say Peter Crouch had a good touch for a big guy.

    Prove it otherwise.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    DaveMehmet said:

    Itchy beard, Jimmy Hill.

    Did Jimmy Hill come up with that? You learn something new everyday
  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,610
    edited January 2017
    SoundAsa£ said:

    Many years ago I was in The Chelsea Arts Club of all places with a group of musso faces(about a dozen of us having lunch) and someone mentioned someone (I don't remember exactly who it was) as being a leg-end.....ie.....a legend.
    I then piped up with....."yes, and what's more he's a leg-end in his own lunchtime." General laughter all round.
    Now, the term 'legend in his own lunchtime' has over the years become quite a well known quip.
    I said it without having ever heard it from anyone else.......I genuinely thought of it myself.
    I've often wondered if my silly throw away comment all those years ago brought the expression into being.......a crazy notion some might think, but I'd like to think it's true.
    Certainly none of the people there that day had heard it said before.

    Well I hope so Soundas :smile:
    Must be nice to realise you invented a phrase that has entered the language.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,608
    cafcdave123 said:

    DaveMehmet said:

    Itchy beard, Jimmy Hill.

    Did Jimmy Hill come up with that? You learn something new everyday
    It was actually a reply to the OP
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    I invented the word "pants" meaning "crap" in 1995.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    DaveMehmet said:

    cafcdave123 said:

    DaveMehmet said:

    Itchy beard, Jimmy Hill.

    Did Jimmy Hill come up with that? You learn something new everyday
    It was actually a reply to the OP
    I was joking that it was as likely that Jimmy Hill came up with that as the OP's claim. ..
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,485
    3blokes said:

    SoundAsa£ said:

    Many years ago I was in The Chelsea Arts Club of all places with a group of musso faces(about a dozen of us having lunch) and someone mentioned someone (I don't remember exactly who it was) as being a leg-end.....ie.....a legend.
    I then piped up with....."yes, and what's more he's a leg-end in his own lunchtime." General laughter all round.
    Now, the term 'legend in his own lunchtime' has over the years become quite a well known quip.
    I said it without having ever heard it from anyone else.......I genuinely thought of it myself.
    I've often wondered if my silly throw away comment all those years ago brought the expression into being.......a crazy notion some might think, but I'd like to think it's true.
    Certainly none of the people there that day had heard it said before.

    Well I hope so Soundas :smile:
    Must be nice to realise you invented a phrase that has entered the language.
    Well, I just don't know for sure, I mean to say how could I......but there's a damn good chance it's how it came about.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Errr, I'll look into it
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    edited January 2017
    Private Eye have used the 'Legend in his own lunchtime' expression for many years.
    Were you with any of their editorial team at the Chelsea Arts Club?

    Edit - from 1993
    Richard Ingrams used it
    http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-hes-a-legend-in-his-own-lunchtime-personal-problems-led-richard-ingrams-to-leave-private-1500820.html

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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,485
    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    Private Eye have used the 'Legend in his own lunchtime' expression for many years.
    Were you with any of their editorial team at the Chelsea Arts Club?

    This would have been around 1977/78......who knows where they got it from.....do you know ARTHUR?
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,684
    Pardew you are a cnut.

    Don't know who started it tbf
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341
    SoundAsa£ said:

    Many years ago I was in The Chelsea Arts Club of all places with a group of musso faces(about a dozen of us having lunch) and someone mentioned someone (I don't remember exactly who it was) as being a leg-end.....ie.....a legend.
    I then piped up with....."yes, and what's more he's a leg-end in his own lunchtime." General laughter all round.
    Now, the term 'legend in his own lunchtime' has over the years become quite a well known quip.
    I said it without having ever heard it from anyone else.......I genuinely thought of it myself.
    I've often wondered if my silly throw away comment all those years ago brought the expression into being.......a crazy notion some might think, but I'd like to think it's true.
    Certainly none of the people there that day had heard it said before.

    When was this? You said is was "many years ago". Roughly how many?
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    edited January 2017
    SoundAsa£ said:

    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    Private Eye have used the 'Legend in his own lunchtime' expression for many years.
    Were you with any of their editorial team at the Chelsea Arts Club?

    This would have been around 1977/78......who knows where they got it from.....do you know ARTHUR?
    No, but as a subscriber I just recalled it used often.
    Seems it also appeared in The Observer in 1976 used by journalist Chris Wordsworth
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,485
    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    SoundAsa£ said:

    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    Private Eye have used the 'Legend in his own lunchtime' expression for many years.
    Were you with any of their editorial team at the Chelsea Arts Club?

    This would have been around 1977/78......who knows where they got it from.....do you know ARTHUR?
    No, but as a subscriber I just recalled it used often - no doubt from you in 1977
    Ha ha......I honestly don't know mate.....like I said earlier.....who knows......who knows.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341
    I have some disapppointing news, @SoundAsa£ - it was first used in print in 1973.

    Legend in his own lunchtime.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,966
    Isn't it more likely you'd heard it somewhere and all but forgotten it?
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341
    North Lower Neil said:

    Isn't it more likely you'd heard it somewhere and all but forgotten it?

    Forgotten what?
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    SoundAsa£ said:

    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    SoundAsa£ said:

    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    Private Eye have used the 'Legend in his own lunchtime' expression for many years.
    Were you with any of their editorial team at the Chelsea Arts Club?

    This would have been around 1977/78......who knows where they got it from.....do you know ARTHUR?
    No, but as a subscriber I just recalled it used often - no doubt from you in 1977
    Ha ha......I honestly don't know mate.....like I said earlier.....who knows......who knows.
    Well I think you were a trendsetter at the very least!

    I shamefully confess to sadly spreading a rumour, out of boredom whilst living in India, that the author of a very famous guidebook had been killed when his motorbike hit an elephant.
    Four years later some fruity young lady backpacker, fresh from Australia, recited the same story to me almost verbatim.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,485
    Chizz said:

    I have some disapppointing news, @SoundAsa£ - it was first used in print in 1973.

    Legend in his own lunchtime.

    Oh well.....that's a bummer......but how come I said it without having heard it myself.....pure chance I guess.......my bubble has certainly been burst.
    Errrrm.......thanks chizz.......I think!

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  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,966
    Chizz said:

    North Lower Neil said:

    Isn't it more likely you'd heard it somewhere and all but forgotten it?

    Forgotten what?
    It.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341
    SoundAsa£ said:

    Chizz said:

    I have some disapppointing news, @SoundAsa£ - it was first used in print in 1973.

    Legend in his own lunchtime.

    Oh well.....that's a bummer......but how come I said it without having heard it myself.....pure chance I guess.......my bubble has certainly been burst.
    Errrrm.......thanks chizz.......I think!
    1978 might be the first time you REMEMBER saying it. I reckon you probably first said it ten years before that. *taps side of nose*
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,485
    edited January 2017
    North Lower Neil said:

    Isn't it more likely you'd heard it somewhere and all but forgotten it?

    I suppose that's possible.....I was certainly exploring various powders and potions of exotic proportions in those days......the mind can play funny games I guess......maybe that's the answer?
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,958

    I always thought John Lennon wrote "I'm just a legend in my own lunchtime" in one of his books ("In my own write" or "A Spaniard in the the works"), about 1965?

  • NomadicAddick
    NomadicAddick Posts: 2,114
    Yes a couple are mine that people still use.

    Remember you're only as old as the woman you feel.
    Same shit different day (yeah I invented that)
    Esqueeze me (instead of excuse me)
    Wank you very much (also mine)
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    "Yellow" when I answer the phone, really confuses the French
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,870
    I invented - I'll look into it.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,671
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:

    Errr, I'll look into it

    Let us know if you come up with anything.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    MrOneLung said:

    I invented - I'll look into it.

    I will look in to this
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,538
    blackpool72 said:

    Pardew you are a cnut.

    Don't know who started it tbf

    I'm laying claim to that one...

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