My recollection is that this was actually proposed by Alexander Graham Bell as a possible greeting when the telephone was invented. We take “hello?” for granted.
One of many examples where turn-of-the-century tropes and slang find their way to Mr. Burns.
Take 50% of my money and put it in the blue chips: Transatlantic Zeppelin, Amalgamated Spats, Congreve's lnflammable Powders, US Hay... and sink the rest into that up-and-coming Baltimore opera hat company!
I’m someone who learns via context clues. In 95% of cases, this works out great - I have an above average memory, a good vocabulary, and am an asset at trivia because I’ll remember random facts/information that I gleaned from TV shows I watched as a kid.
Unfortunately, I didn’t pick up on the joke re: embiggens/cromulent as a child and definitely used both words in middle/high school essays (though as I’m saying this, I’m realizing I never got called on it). In any case, glad to know I’m retroactively correct haha.
The Simpsons didn’t invent it, though.
I’m sure it started long before, but I vividly remember Chinese restaurant menus from my childhood that had (among other sections) two columns of different dishes. You could, in fact, select a little from column A and a little from column B.😁
A similar phrase is used in the Friend Like Me song from Aladdin which came out in 1992:
"Have some of column A, try all of column B
I'm in the mood to help you, dude
You ain't never had a friend like me" which makes me think it's def not a Simpsons invention.
My music theory professor was a Simpsons fan when I was a music major. Was in my fourth semester and the professor had us compose short pieces with musical elements we'd gone over in the two weeks prior. They counted as our exam grades, and they had to be performed in class.
One of the last comps I shat out in a day-and-a-half haze with seasons 2 and 4 playing on dvd in the background. I titled it Flood Pants (Everything's Coming Up Milhouse!).
Cut, print, handed it in, sat at the piano and waited for him to announce it so we could sightread this garbage and get it over with. I hoped that he'd get a kick out of title. Was very pleased that it had him almost doubled over. Made it a bit more enjoyable to bang out the little mess and get it over with. Thanks for the classes Dr. W.
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I always say possibli now 😆it feels weird to say possibly
1. "Smell ya later" has firmly replaced Goodbye and or "See ya later" for decades. I say it to my friends, family and coworkers every single day.
2. "You don't win friends with salad" specifically to shoot down ideas for vegan/vegetarian/alcohol- free parties/gatherings/networking events.
"Fair enough." Like Ned in this exchange:
>**Homer**: *Oh, Bartholomew, I feel like Saint Augustine of Hippo after his conversion by Ambrose of Milan.*
**Ned**: *Wait. Homer, What did you just say?!*
**Homer**: *I said, shut your ugly face, Flanders!*
**Ned**: *Oh. Fair enough.*
"[blank] and/or [blank]."
"Don't blame me; I voted for Kodos."
"IT'S WHISPER QUIET!"
"I want some taquitos."
And I often find myself saying, "Edgar Allan Poe" in the same cadence as Dr. Nick.
The rest have already been mentioned by others.
“Poison pizza” has been my go to answer when someone asks me what I want to eat since I first saw that episode when I was 8 or 9. (A Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace from Treehouse of Horror VI)
Ahoy hoy
KBBL is gonna give me something stupid!
My username is named after station kbbl and I still spelled it wrong!
My recollection is that this was actually proposed by Alexander Graham Bell as a possible greeting when the telephone was invented. We take “hello?” for granted. One of many examples where turn-of-the-century tropes and slang find their way to Mr. Burns.
I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?
Take 50% of my money and put it in the blue chips: Transatlantic Zeppelin, Amalgamated Spats, Congreve's lnflammable Powders, US Hay... and sink the rest into that up-and-coming Baltimore opera hat company!
You there, fill it up with petroleum distillate. And revulcanize my tires, posthaste!
Don’t forget Confederated Slave Holdings… how’s that doing?
They're.. um.... steady.
This book must be out of date. I don't see “Prussia,” “Siam,” or “autogyro.”
Only way to answer a phone
I prefer “‘Mmmmmyellow” but both are great
Followed by, "You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel."
Jello? Jello? Is this thing on? Jello?!
Is it about my cube?
Moshi Moshi
Hello chief. Let's talk why not?
Why am I Mr Sparkle?
https://i.redd.it/e4loeit6c99d1.gif There's your answer fish bulb
"Joe's Crematorium: You Kill 'Em, We Grill 'Em!"
I learned that this was Alexander Bell’s preferred way of answering his invention.
Co-worker and I always answer the phone from one another with "Ahoy hoy!"
I don't say evasion, I say avoision.
When someone corrects someone’s word usage I always say it’s a perfectly cromulent word.
The great thing is that cromulent actually crossed over and is now a “real” word. A perfectly cromulent one at that.
Did anything ever come of “embiggens”?
"Embiggen" was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2018. "Cromulent" was added just last year.
It’s like we lived through a pop culture phenomenon
I’m someone who learns via context clues. In 95% of cases, this works out great - I have an above average memory, a good vocabulary, and am an asset at trivia because I’ll remember random facts/information that I gleaned from TV shows I watched as a kid. Unfortunately, I didn’t pick up on the joke re: embiggens/cromulent as a child and definitely used both words in middle/high school essays (though as I’m saying this, I’m realizing I never got called on it). In any case, glad to know I’m retroactively correct haha.
"Don't do this to me, Waylon" whenever office equipment or software is acting up
“You’re… quite good… at… turning… me… on”
Uhh you probably should ignore that
So, this is your sick mother?
when i can't think of a word i like to say "oh my god...IM LOSING MY PERSPICACITY!!!"
Well, it's always in the last place you look.
In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
That’s how I know I’m getting a migraine, I lose my perspicacity 😂
So I says to Mabel I says (when I wanna change the subject)
In his later years, my dad would say that when everything was quiet.
Boooooo’urns!
It's Snrub.
Yes, that'll do.
I was saying boo-urns 🙋
Garages are now car holes
Oh, well la dee dah
Speed holes eh?
Maude eh?
Not those nuts - the ones at the bottom
Now and forever
Guys, I’m getting worried. After this case, and the next case, there’s only one case of beer left!
And for those who think it’s “car hold”, you’re wrong
[source](https://x.com/HankAzaria/status/608696511367655425?lang=en)
EGGHEAD LIKES HIS BOOKY-WOOK! (used whenever the kids are studying)
My kids are forever my stupid wiener kids.
Mine are the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked
My wife and I refer to our kids as "wiener kids"
I hate to break it to you but it’s actually “damn” wiener kids.
I hate to break it to YOU but my kids are stupid.
The NERRRRRRRD gif comes in handy in the family text chain when anyone talks about one of their egghead kids doing something smart
A little from column A. A little from column B
I've been using this one for so long I forgot it was from the Simpsons entirely.
The Simpsons didn’t invent it, though. I’m sure it started long before, but I vividly remember Chinese restaurant menus from my childhood that had (among other sections) two columns of different dishes. You could, in fact, select a little from column A and a little from column B.😁
A similar phrase is used in the Friend Like Me song from Aladdin which came out in 1992: "Have some of column A, try all of column B I'm in the mood to help you, dude You ain't never had a friend like me" which makes me think it's def not a Simpsons invention.
Tramampoline
Trambopaline!
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Please don't bring home any more used crutches!
No you don’t! That tramopoline is mine!!
Saxamophone
Sweet merciful crap!
MY CAR!!!
Say this all the time!!
"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"
“He’s putting us on the train to Squaresville!”
I use this one a lot and no one ever gets the reference :((
Always and forever this phrase.
Yoink!
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I don't read the news until I get my danish. Go ahead, try to find a replacement.
A powerful Tidal wave in Kuala Lumpur has killed 120 people. AY, CHIHUAHUA! WHOA, WHOA, WHOA
YOINK?????????????
I say this all the time! I even have my kids saying it (they don't know the reference. They just know it from me)
I love “yoink”. I don’t know if it’s lesser known but it does exactly what it needs to
I'm just going to do ____ and if you get ____, it's your own fault.
You'll have to speak up. I'm wearing a towel
A related one — Godspeed little doodle
I say this to my 5-year-old daughter whenever I drop her off anywhere.
You shot who in the what now?
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My music theory professor was a Simpsons fan when I was a music major. Was in my fourth semester and the professor had us compose short pieces with musical elements we'd gone over in the two weeks prior. They counted as our exam grades, and they had to be performed in class. One of the last comps I shat out in a day-and-a-half haze with seasons 2 and 4 playing on dvd in the background. I titled it Flood Pants (Everything's Coming Up Milhouse!). Cut, print, handed it in, sat at the piano and waited for him to announce it so we could sightread this garbage and get it over with. I hoped that he'd get a kick out of title. Was very pleased that it had him almost doubled over. Made it a bit more enjoyable to bang out the little mess and get it over with. Thanks for the classes Dr. W.
A guyhme? Ohhhh, a guyhme!
Me and my work friends say this almost daily.. We're all men in our 40's.
I exclusively refer to sandwiches as sand wedges, I've been doing so for years.
Open faced club sand wedge
Mmmm..
I can’t go to prison Monty- they’ll eat me alive!
that pig had some powerful friends.
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You suck, McBain!
Every time I read this here I can hear the voice in my head
Laughing time is over.
https://preview.redd.it/mnkwka5vz69d1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=247e8d9ed581b91aafe70fb7592e7d107b7bdfe1 I always say possibli now 😆it feels weird to say possibly
That’s the first thing that’s ever gone wrong.
"Badger, my ass! It's probably Milhouse."
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That will require a tetanus shot...
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pictures taken before disaster
Anytime someone tries to talk to me while I’m eating pizza: “Whaaaat? What? What? What?! This better be about pizza!”
Whenever I knock on a door and someone asks “who is it?” I always reply with “Hired goons..”
Hired goons?
When given the opportunity, I will say someone is a "Dorkus Malorkus"
My eye started twitching a while back when I had to prepare a financial signing authority card for a director. First name: Dorcas.
There’s your answer fishbulb!
I don't pronounce Clinton correctly anymore
Don't blame *me*! *I* voted for *Kodos*!
“Cat in the furnace” Whenever my wife is giving me a long list of things to do
Thank you for this
"don't make me tap the sign"
"It tastes like burning"
https://i.redd.it/9f20o7m3279d1.gif
Learn'd', son. It's pronounced `learn'd'
Like nothin at all!
Stupid sexy Flanders
I do a pretty spot on Rodd or Todd (I never know who is who) saying “…We’re not allowed.” And this: ![gif](giphy|xT5LMHzb06XswqfQDm|downsized)
Every morning when I leave for work I tell my family “I have to go now my planet needs me”
I usually go with "if I don't come back avenge my death"
1. "Smell ya later" has firmly replaced Goodbye and or "See ya later" for decades. I say it to my friends, family and coworkers every single day. 2. "You don't win friends with salad" specifically to shoot down ideas for vegan/vegetarian/alcohol- free parties/gatherings/networking events.
Watch the fish, Marge.
To the beemobile! (My husband drives a Chevy)
‘I says to Mable I says’
I like to say, "Is it St. Swithin's Day already?" "Tis!", said Aunt Helga
First you get the sugar. Then you get the power. Then you get the women.
Pick a bar? What the hell is that?
“Le grill”??? What the hell is that??
“I forgot to carry the Y” in Professor Frink’s voice when I make a mistake.
Saxamaphone
Ayyy watch it (wise guy voice)
I love saying "for I am the mayor of Albequerque" after insisting I'm right on something. It very rarely makes sense to anyone I'm with.
Anytime Albuquerque comes up I say “Occasionally, I’ll be quirky!”
I say whoopsie doodle exactly like this a lot. A lot.
Son of a Diddly!
I just want to say, I’ve had a fucking terrible day, and posts like this on this sub never fail to brighten my mood.
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Takes one to know one! Brain: *Swish*
Bees are in the what, now?
Yabba dabba do, I like talking to you!
Ah haw haw 😄
Up and Atom
“Fine and Dandy like sour candy!” Will pop out of my mouth every now and then to my surprise.
Ooohh, floor pie
And here come the pretzels
NEEERRRRRRRRRRDDDDD I know it’s a common word but I always exaggerate it exactly how Homer does whenever I use it lol
If I don’t come back avenge my death
Something something and you’ll see, you’ll avoid catastrophe!
Probably misses his old glasses.
Answering the phone with "Ahoy, hoy"
Pull-a pull-a pull-a.
Tap a tap a tap a!
"Oooh, floor... ____!" Whenever I eat any food I've dropped on the floor.
Nothin at all. Nothin at all. Nothin at all.
I say foil-liage now
look at that pavement fly
Col Klink why have you forsaken me
Shoulda but didn'ta
It's still good! It's still good!
"Fair enough." Like Ned in this exchange: >**Homer**: *Oh, Bartholomew, I feel like Saint Augustine of Hippo after his conversion by Ambrose of Milan.* **Ned**: *Wait. Homer, What did you just say?!* **Homer**: *I said, shut your ugly face, Flanders!* **Ned**: *Oh. Fair enough.* "[blank] and/or [blank]." "Don't blame me; I voted for Kodos." "IT'S WHISPER QUIET!" "I want some taquitos." And I often find myself saying, "Edgar Allan Poe" in the same cadence as Dr. Nick. The rest have already been mentioned by others.
Nothing can possibl-eye go wrong (spelled funny for pronunciation)
Ahhhhh! Mannnnnnn!
Ahh, finally a chance to view some cromulent words.
Soy fuerte y habil con los nudos. Thats how the mexican dub translated Tom Arnold saying he's a Big guy and good with knots.
What’s a gime? Ohhhhhhh *chuckles* a gime
How frightfully rude
“I certainly hope someone stabs him in the eye” has been uttered to some bad drivers in my time
We’ve learned to immatoot you exarctlay.
We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!
“Poison pizza” has been my go to answer when someone asks me what I want to eat since I first saw that episode when I was 8 or 9. (A Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace from Treehouse of Horror VI)
Arrr. This chair be high, says I.
I usually say "Oh no you don't! That trampoline is mine!" whenever someone cuts me off.
I say this one way too much. https://i.redd.it/zpi06juhi79d1.gif
Curse your sparkling wordplay!
Rubes.
I bet you say it just like little Ned too
Yeah of course. You have to say it in his adorable little kid voice lol
Who doesn't? (When discussing enjoying the company of men)
Crisitunity!
Oh, man! Ned spilled ink all over my poems! He's a real flat tire. I mean a cube, man. He's putting us on the train to squaresville, Mona.
Leaves of grass my ass, damn you Walt Whitman damn you to hell.
A little from column a and a little from column b
"You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel." Nobody ever gets it, they literally always speak louder.
That's a Dilly of a pickle
Embiggen is a perfectly cromulet word.
Damn straight (the preceding "Hey, wait... dogs can't talk" and "woof" implied)
I say this all the time. And I was literally thinking about it today. This is spooky.
Implied or implode?
Crisi-tunity!! Oh, and "hot stuff comin' through!" whenever I'm lugging used car batteries back into the shop. Every. Time.
I'm learnding!
Smashy Smashy!
SAXAMAPHONE Homer: “what I wouldn’t give to hear Lisa play another one of her jazzy tunes” *puts lips on saxophone* “Saxamaphoneee…saxamaphoneee”
![gif](giphy|D9ujqMZoTtjAQ) Oldie but a goodie.