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Anna B
# 1439
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The English language is the richer because Erin lived. I'll always be indebted to her for the pungent phrase, "Great googly moogly, you are crazier than a shithouse rat."
Share your favorite examples here.
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Trudy Scrumptious
# 5647
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Is Erin the Ship -- and world -- originator of the phrase "you are wronger than a wrong thing that is mistaken"? I have googled and found a few uses of the phrase off-Ship, but none of them predates what seems to be Erin's first use of it here in 2005.
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maleveque
# 132
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Asshat and fucktard have been mentioned on one of the other threads, but my favorite, and one that I personally have used extensively is "fuck a pig." - Anne L.
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mousethief
# 953
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I don't know if this is an original Erinism or not, but I was told at one point to "buy yourself a ladder and get over it."
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RooK
# 1852
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Her phrases were striking contrasts of simple and descriptive, with a creative diversity that stunned the unwary. But I particularly delighted in her consummate timing, which was a big part of why it was so much more effective when she weilded the words than all of us who emulated her.
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iGeek
# 777
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I think it was from Erin that I learned the phrases "panties in a wad" and "put your big girl panties on and deal with it".
I love using those phrases in other venues and I have her to thank for it.
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Zappa
# 8433
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The list of Erinisms could be near endless - could be a book in its own right - I'm cruising randomly through oblivion. quote: Groucho seems to have a bug up his ass about the US
(Posted 26 July, 2001).
Or
quote: Posted by Erin (# 2) on 25 August, 2001 00:55 : TICTH the new breed of mobile phone users: the ones who let the phone ring, check the caller ID, and then don't answer the phone. If you're NOT going to answer it, turn the f'ing thing OFF.
I don't have a mobile phone, I will never have a mobile phone. As far as I can tell, the only people who are important enough to own a mobile phone are transplant, cardiac and neurosurgeons. If people need to talk to me that badly, they can send a helicopter to find me.
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iGeek
# 777
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From what I think is her Twitter feed: quote: I really hate conservatives. They are a collective pimple on the ass of humanity. 12:46 PM Oct 30th, 2010 via web
and more recently: quote: Nothing like a zombie marathon to get into the Christmas spirit #TheWalkingDead 2:41 PM Dec 5th, 2010 via Twitter for Android
Classic Erin.
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RooK
# 1852
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Her self-assigned titles were all pretty great, too.
"Meaner than Godzilla"
"Tiny Invisible Judge"
What were some others?
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Belisarius
# 32
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"Empress, Ruler, Queen of All", which may be a quote.
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Leaf
# 14169
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"Poisonous witch?"
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Belisarius
# 32
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Yes--"Poisonous, Dysfunctional Witch"; forgot that one.
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Tortuf
# 3784
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Something about "wielder of rusty farm implements" comes to mind.
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Kelly Alves
# 2522
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"Simon's Pet Alligator." Wasn't there another "Simon" one?
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Campbellite
# 1202
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Oh yes. The Rusty Farm Implement goes way back to 2001 iirc. Something to do with the use of an auger on the backside of a troll.
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Eutychus
# 3081
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quote: Originally posted by Trudy Scrumptious: Is Erin the Ship -- and world -- originator of the phrase "you are wronger than a wrong thing that is mistaken"?
I'm glad the evidence points that way. It's certainly the phrase of hers which has entered the Eutychus household lexicon.
I think Erin started the "What is sex?" thread in T'n'T, and it was certainly her who contributed the memorable and thought-provoking assertion that it was not adequately defined by quote: insert tab A into slot B
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Gill H
# 68
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"Bouncing Buddha on a pogo stick!" comes to mind.
I think she was also responsible for the pithy summary of Biblical inspiration - that Christians don't believe "God showed up and said 'take a letter' ..."
And she certainly helped popularise 'Asshat' as far as I'm aware. There was a thread long, long ago as to what it meant, and I posted a little poem about 'How do I wear an asshat?' in response.
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Kelly Alves
# 2522
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You were the author of the Asshat Song?!
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Chapelhead
# 21
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Perhaps the finest insult I've ever heard came, unsurprisingly, from Erin, which in just a few words seems to insult on so many levels.
quote: You're one load your mama should've swallowed.
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The Great Gumby
# 10989
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quote: Originally posted by Belisarius: Yes--"Poisonous, Dysfunctional Witch"; forgot that one.
IIRC, she didn't invent that one, but adopted it from someone's description of her. Numpty, maybe?
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Gill H
# 68
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quote: Originally posted by Kelly Alves: You were the author of the Asshat Song?!
I suspect not the same one. I think it's vanished in the ether.
All I can remember is the following (complete with a reference to the old 'Mystery Worship' gang):
I thought I'd ask the MW crowd For it might be a smoking brass hat But all they could say was 'Pass the GIN!' And return to their tales of Mass tat ... ... Somebody, somebody, tell me how How do I wear an Asshat?
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Stoo
# 254
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quote: Originally posted by Kelly Alves: You were the author of the Asshat Song?!
There were two... mine went:
#I have a homburg on my hiney I've got a busby on my bum I wear a big sombrero on my little derriere-o, And I've got a red ra-da-dum* on my rump#
*damn... can't remember what this hat was. It began with 'r' and was something like a bonnet (robreso? rabreso?)
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Spike
# 36
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quote: Originally posted by Kelly Alves: "Simon's Pet Alligator."
I feel partly responsible for that one, but I'll post that in the "Remembering Erin" thread
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mdijon
# 8520
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quote: Originally posted by Belisarius: Yes--"Poisonous, Dysfunctional Witch"; forgot that one.
quote: Originally posted by The Great Gumby: IIRC, she didn't invent that one, but adopted it from someone's description of her. Numpty, maybe?
Yes, it was Numpty.
quote: How cute, in that "my skin has just crawled off my body and is whimpering in the corner" kind of way.
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Firenze
# 619
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quote: Originally posted by Trudy Scrumptious: Is Erin the Ship -- and world -- originator of the phrase "you are wronger than a wrong thing that is mistaken"? I have googled and found a few uses of the phrase off-Ship, but none of them predates what seems to be Erin's first use of it here in 2005.
In the UK, it was the Blackadder series (particularly the character of Baldrick) who popularised the non-similie - eg 'My lord, war and famine stalk the land like two giant stalking things'.
I have heard the 'wrong thing that is mistaken' more widely than on the Ship - which may of course mean, that Erin's influence permeates all of Western culture.
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Rosa Winkel
# 11424
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I saw the 'Great Googly Moogly' quote and took it that she got it from Frank Zappa (he exclaims it in 'Don't eat the yellow snow'), which would mark her as a Frank Zappa fan, something to make her even cooler.
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mdijon
# 8520
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I think the googly moogly goes back even further than Zappa to earlier R&B records, but I don't think any of them did the "crazier than a shithouse rat" bit.
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Laura
# 10
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Crazier than a shithouse rat, I've heard elsewhere. what I haven't heard is how she characterized a work meeting in which she had been hung out to dry by a supervisor. She said,
"they bent me over the table, and didn't even lube up first".
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Triple Tiara
# 9556
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There was this gem, when someone was needling her again about the way things were done her way and not their way:
quote: I've never been a believer in the idea that leadership means bending over and taking it in the ass like a $5 whore.
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Amazing Grace
# 95
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I saw “asshat” and some of the others in somewhat-general use on certain parts of Usenet in the mid to late 1990s. I don’t know if Erin was a denizen of alt.peeves or alt.tasteless back in the day. Either or both would have been right up her alley.
I’ll note that the “Jesus <x> Christ on a <y>” construction was pretty common in those groups, based on the semi-common “Jesus H. Christ on the cross/a crutch/a <pogo> stick”. I used to be fairly good at it myself. From there to bouncing Buddhas is a short step . I don’t do that much any more but the fact that the terms were in use and not being greeted by excessive amounts of passive-aggressive pearl-clutching made this little lurker feel it was safe to dive on in.
The following Shakespeare passage (slightly modified) has been in my mind a lot. Let one master of the language salute another:
Hung be the Forums with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Erin's death! (after _Henry V_)
Charlotte
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Zappa
# 8433
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quote: Originally posted by Chapelhead: Perhaps the finest insult I've ever heard came, unsurprisingly, from Erin, which in just a few words seems to insult on so many levels.
quote: You're one load your mama should've swallowed.
I remember nearly shitting myself with laughter the day I saw that one ...
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Amazing Grace
# 95
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quote: Originally posted by Zappa: quote: Originally posted by Chapelhead: Perhaps the finest insult I've ever heard came, unsurprisingly, from Erin, which in just a few words seems to insult on so many levels.
quote: You're one load your mama should've swallowed.
I remember nearly shitting myself with laughter the day I saw that one ...
Me too. It definitely got filed away for reference.
Charlotte
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PrettyFly
# 13157
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Closely related to quote: The best part of you slid down your momma's leg
It doesn't get much worse/better than that!
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PrettyFly
# 13157
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Also, related to the famous shithouse rat, wasn't it also Erin who said "nuttier than rat crp in a pistachio factory"? That's one I've used to great effect and always thought it was an Erin-ism
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Spike
# 36
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One of her best lines had to be whenever anyone flounced or threatened to flounce - "Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out!
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Simon
# 1
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I think it was "door knob" Spike. That's one of my favourite of her one-liners, and I've used it successfully several times. Always makes people laugh. I also love the "Don't write" line she used when suspending/banning someone just before Christmas.
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Moo
# 107
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I remember that at least once she said
Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.
Moo
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Raspberry Rabbit
# 3080
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I wish I could remember some of the "fregory" exchanges!
RR
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Laura
# 10
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quote: Originally posted by Moo: I remember that at least once she said
Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.
Moo
I love that one! I had heard it before but she's the only one I knew who used it regularly.
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Laura
# 10
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For UK-ers who may not be familiar with the traditional US screen door (the whoing-bang-slam of which is, as Bill Bryson noted, one of the most distinctive of American summer sounds), it's the screen door that can flap back and hit you in the butt on your way out if you don't move quick enough or forget to hold it open far enough. You'll sometimes hear "don't let the screen door hit you in the ass".
Bless her.
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Kelly Alves
# 2522
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quote: Originally posted by Laura: Crazier than a shithouse rat, I've heard elsewhere. what I haven't heard is how she characterized a work meeting in which she had been hung out to dry by a supervisor. She said,
"they bent me over the table, and didn't even lube up first".
I remember that one... My boss was being a real bitch around the same time, and I was seized with empathy.
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basso
# 4228
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The other day I enriched a couple of friends' vocabulary.
I was walking across a parking lot when a driver started pulling out right into my path. I ducked. Somebody rushed up to me and said "Holy cow, basso, are you okay?"
Then she told me that the driver had had his phone glued to his ear as he pulled out of his parking spot.
I said "what a fucktard". Nobody there had heard that before, but it was the first word that popped into my head.
Cheers from Erin, friends. Use the word in good health.
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Beenster
# 242
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Was it Erin who dreamt up "ten horned beast of the apocalypse"? It is referenced on this thread with thanks to Alan for resurrecting this thread. Master-expression.
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Laura
# 10
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I remember her once saying that someone should "fuck" himself "sideways with a rusted tire iron". Maybe that was a prequel to the rusty farm implement?
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Duo Seraphim
# 256
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This made me laugh like a retarded howler monkey.
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Laura
# 10
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quote: Originally posted by Duo Seraphim: This made me laugh like a retarded howler monkey.
I believe "retarded howler monkey" is official an Erin-coinage.
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Lyda*Rose
# 4544
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I was watching Tabatha's Salon Takeover (hard-nosed-businesswoman/hairstylist-kicks-a-failing-salon's-ass reality show). She was about to pull out her perfectly coifed, icy blond hair over a bull-headed salon owner's inability to understand simple English when she sputtered to the camera in easy lip reading, "Debbie's a f___wit!!!"
I felt so nostalgic.
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Kelly Alves
# 2522
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Oooh, if only she were a lurker...
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Curiosity killed ...
# 11770
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Did Erin write the original of the "How to feed a cat a pill" that keeps circulating the web? I found her version back on one of the very early threads that was linked here - maybe from 2001.
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