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

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  • GoOnYouHaddocks
    GoOnYouHaddocks Posts: 1,046
    I don't know who coined the phrase "totes amazeballs" but whoever it was, they deserve a slap.
  • Daarrzzetbum
    Daarrzzetbum Posts: 1,236
    Rubbishley, you are Curbish, lad I knew who once berated Mr C, didn't take on but at the time was more than mildly amusing.

  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,171
    Spongefoot and Geordie Smiler

    oh you say widely used not hardly
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    I genuinely maintain that I was the first person at my school to call someone a "bumscum"
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,815
    How about the Pardew you are a f**king Cnut?

    Pretty sure that was one of his players coined that one.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    My sister (Paramedic at the time) used to refer to immigrant construction workers as Polish Pete and I liked it and used it on here for Peter Parsley - that actually seems to have taken off and it raises a smile every time I read it.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,749
    blackpool72 said:

    Pardew you are a cnut.

    Don't know who started it tbf

    Probably his mum
  • ValleyMick
    ValleyMick Posts: 473
    edited January 2017
    Only on Charlton Life
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,815
    I have the misfortune to work with a mid-twenties stripey Nigel. He's a bit of an idiot to be fair to him.

    This season is giving me so much enjoyment on that front.
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,866
    McBobbin said:

    I genuinely maintain that I was the first person at my school to call someone a "bumscum"

    And the last?

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,251
    edited January 2017
    "bumpy ride"

    "I'll believe when it's on the official site"

    "The Spanners" is my favourite though
  • Addicted
    Addicted Posts: 2,804
    I'd like to put in a preliminary claim to the 'vinegar' of Nobby Vinegar.
  • NomSoup
    NomSoup Posts: 59
    I'm the one who came up with the "feeeesh" thing on the big screen. I was a little kid in the North lower who thought it would be funny and ended up annoying everyone around me to the point where they joined in.

    It sort of escalated from there.
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    NomSoup said:

    I'm the one who came up with the "feeeesh" thing on the big screen. I was a little kid in the North lower who thought it would be funny and ended up annoying everyone around me to the point where they joined in.

    It sort of escalated from there.

    Never heard it in my life, sorry mate.
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,410
    Love Jacko to bits
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    i remember growing up a mate claimed to invented the term "chode" - a penis thicker than it is long.
  • cashncarry
    cashncarry Posts: 980
    kentaddick said:

    i remember growing up a mate claimed to invented the term "chode" - a penis thicker than it is long.

    Its the curse of the predictive text again
  • MickeyBennett
    MickeyBennett Posts: 677
    I coined the "Waaaaaasssssssssup!" greeting that featured in the beloved Budweiser advert from 2000.

    I invented the greeting whilst harassing my estranged wife over the phone in 1983. Ironically I was drinking a lot of lager at the time. However, numerous cans of 'Skol' were my tipple of choice, rather than the ice-cold Budweiser celebrated in the aforementioned advert.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,687
    Not everybody's cup of tea, but Stewart Lee's family saying ... 'Pear cider that's made from 100 per cent pears' ...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd4FfNpYxF0
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,749
    A accidentally coined the phrase Chegars can't be boozers via the medium of spoonerism.

    How I laughed when I discovered Keith Chegwin was an alcoholic.

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  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,919
    I sent in two made up jokes to Eagle Radio the local radio station in the 1980s who were inviting listeners jokes on "What do you call someone who......."

    I've since heard both repeated on air.

    What do you call a man smashing a jeweller's window - Robin
    What do you call a man under a pile of leaves - Russell

    Not wanting anyone to know I wasn't a respectable business man above such puerile triviality, I hadn't mentioned it to anyone, but a neighbour heard my name check on the radio and called my wife to see if it was the same silly bugger she was married to.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    C_A_F_C said:

    McBobbin said:

    I genuinely maintain that I was the first person at my school to call someone a "bumscum"

    And the last?
    No. I overheard someone in year 5 say it, much to my horror. So I called him a big poo.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,026
    Dippenhall said:

    I sent in two made up jokes to Eagle Radio the local radio station

    You Palace fan !

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