your own catchphrase

Whenever I see something I can't handle or is too ridiculous to believe, I usually say "derp" "durr" or "oi", usually out of curiosity or stress (or even boredom at times). What's your catchphrase (or general word you tend to say in your everyday life).

Personally, I'm rather fond of 'Indeed' as a general agreement or response.

I keep gaining and losing catchphrases. Right now, I say "are?" in a squeaky voice a lot when something confuses me or leaves me dumbstruck.

"I'll do it later."

But I am trying to change it.

As of late, in RL anyway, I've been saying "I do what I can" a lot.

I have several for various situations. My favorite is "Thanks for playing."

Probably “whatever.” Yeah, I know.

Whenever I'm angry. "I don't even know what 'Anger' is."

"Sol Invictus!" Or "Geissterdammen!" Whenever I am annoyed.

My wife would argue that it's "Well, I'm just saying..."

I tend to say that a lot, along with "derpderpderp". I also use "Welp" as a form of "I'm done here and don't know how to make a good exit/I don't want to talk anymore and I'm using this as an interruption to leave/this has gotten awkward"

I have three:

"Hope is for the weak."

—Specifically, blind hope. True hope (that is, not giving up) is an admirable quality, but simply hoping without rhyme or reason is just stupid. If something bad happens, if you have options, use them—if you don't, then prepare for the worst, but move on.

"It's hard work being lazy."

—Whenever you take the lazy route, you always pay for it later. Don't feel like getting up and looking for the TV remote? Have fun getting up every time you want to change the channel or volume. Don't feel like cleaning? The job's just gonna be that much harder later.

"No one controls your emotions except you."

—No matter what someone says to make you upset or angry, no one controls how you feel except yourself.

All blatant lies.

Closest things I have to a catch phrase are "Bah!", its friend "Bah! Bah I say!", and "LIES!!".

"Indeed." or "Indeedy." are the two most likely to be my number one catchphrase. I channel Teal'c.

When talking about something unlikely to happen: "And the Pope is a Seddie, dresses in drag, and smokes weed all day." In a low, sarcastic voice.

"Does not work that way!" seems to have become mine. There isn't necessarily something at the beginning.

"Outstanding" or "Out-freaking-standing." Might have a sarcasm tone to it.

"Asinine" is a workplace favorite.

As I told one of my Airmen today who was freaking out about the tempo of being deployed...

"When the highlight of your day is that you got Chili Mac for your MRE, you need to remember that someone else has Veggie Omelette, some days you're the Chili Mac, some days you're the Omelette. At least today you aren't that guy."

Usually shortened to "Sometimes you're the Chili Mac, some days you're the Omelette."

^

We called it Battle Mac in the Army, and it is indeed awesome.

When I was little, I used to say actually alot. Since coming from Japan, I now say, 'I'll do my best!'

edited 1st Dec '10 12:55:34 PM by Roman

I personally use "indeed" quite a bit. Also, during a band tour in Florida two years ago, I employed the catchphrase of "That's unfortunate" over the course of five days. By the end of said five days, even the tiniest hint that I was about to say it would get me death threats from my friends.

The f-word and my derp song (surfing bird sung with derps).

Apparently mine are "Fair enough" and "No problem." I've tried to come up with catchphrases, but you can't really come up with a phrase and naturally insert it into conversation. So... fair enough it is. No problem.

My dad and I have this thing where one of us will just repeat an isnult back to the other with Miami Herald on the end.

I used to have this thing where my brother would say "you know what they say..." and I'd give a completely random idiom that makes no sense in the context.

Other than that, I'm sure I have speech patterns and can be pretty repetitious in my phrasing, but nothing catch-phrase esque.