It's time to retire some internet phrases. My nominee: "You owe me a new keyboard."

[Pale Blue Dot]

Trust me, I've had to replace keyboards before, but it's not because someone made a funny joke. :hide:

Nominate your own tired internet phrases here.

[swag]

1. Any phrase that starts with "Folks,"

The poster addressing the lowly masses from on high.

[Sugar Smack]

5. I'd have posted that, too.

We need a moratorium on "folks".

[Richardo]

31. THANK you.

That one always brings Limbaugh to mind. And I hate that.

[Orsino]

41. I always read that as a greeting to equals, and liked it.

I must be one of those elitists? :shrug:

[kineneb]

42. well, excuuuuuse me...

but since I live out in the country, and at the bottom of the economic heap, you are all "folks" to me...

[swag]

2. "BREAKING:"

[Pale Blue Dot]

4. So I guess "BREAKING: Folks, you owe me a new keyboard" would send you over the edge?

Wow... just, wow.

[DS1]

7. I saw that

:D

[Pale Blue Dot]

11. ...

:rofl:

[swag]

8. Especially if the poster prefaced it with their own username followed by a colon in the subject line

[Richardo]

33. ..

:spray:

[swag]

3. "HOLY SHIT!!!" as a subject line kicker.

[darkstar]

6. Methinks you owe me a new keyboard....

And thank god nobody reminds me to take my meds as often as they used to. What an invasion of privacy.

[swag]

10. Oh god, you fucking nailed it. Any "methinks" bullshit flags a bullshit post.

Y'alls not Shakespeare.

[Richardo]

34. Except, of course, Shakespeare.

But even she's not Shakespeare.

[kineneb]

43. except if one is a "Renny"

in which case, we can slip into Faire-speak quite easily...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. CALL CONGRESS RIGHT FUCKING NOW1!!!11!!1!!!!!

don't you think?

[Lil Missy]

27. Oh, I love that one, LOL! n/t

[Sugar Smack]

12. I'm getting a little tired of threads starting with "So"

Followed by a first-person-past-tense account described in present tense.

"So I'm at the bus stop when this guy---etc etc etc"

[DS1]

13. Got me a, Got me some

That's some lazy shit right there

[Schema Thing]

14. How about we change the meaning:

"you owe me a new keyboard" is no longer used when someone post something surprisingly funny, but rather is the reply when someone post a picture that is sexually stimulating?

[Critters2]

20. Ewww....

Thanks for that.

[OmahaBlueDog]

15. The use of the term "non-starter"

As in "Finnfan, your idea to eliminate 'you owe me a new keyboard' from the lexicon is a non-starter." I despise the term and the patronizing subtext beneath it.

I also loathe "I read your post, and I'd like that 30 seconds of my life back, please." Again, very smarmy.

[snailly]

16. So I was...

blah blah blah

[Sugar Smack]

18. EY there--

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7667857#7667924

:P :pals:

[snailly]

19. aw poop

:pals:

[leeroysphitz]

17. You owe me a new 1 terabyte eSATA external hard drive! n/t

[DarkTirade]

21. So I was reading this post and I said to myself, "I gotta get me one of those."

:P

[Generic Brad]

22. I think you have jumped the shark on this

[BeachBaby]

23. I don't know about "internet phrase"....

but the "copycat" thread titles are driving me insane.

Or is that the point? ;)

:hi:

[TZ]

24. I don't know if this is an internet thing as much as a DU thing..

the whole **official** thread thing. Liberal use of an asterik does not make a post more important.

[Recovered Repug]

29. **Offical: Yes, it does** response.

[MichiganVote]

25. Anything...and I mean anything that asks Hillary supporters why they support her, it, whatever....

[yellowcanine]

26. Breaking! Holy Shit! Methinks you owe me a new keyboard!n/t

[leeroysphitz]

28. One I-word that IRRITATES the SHIT out of me is ILK. I know what it means.

I know why people use it but I also know that with RARE exception that anyone geek enough to utter it IRL, say in front of IRL coworkers etc... would be met by, at best, blank stares and/or mild taunting and at worst wedgies and/or severe beatings. Sorry geeks. Deal with it.

Like Chris Knight to Kent I must ask: "Who talks that way?" (You see, this puts the word "Ilk" on par with the phrase "rue the day" making it obnoxiously "geeky" (and the user with it)).


Thank you.

What a day. What a day.

[Quantess]

30. What's ILK?

[Richardo]

32. ELEVENS...ONES.... etc etc

It was funny once.



Once.

[AlCzervik]

39. what you said.

:thumbsup:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

35. "Mandatory Malloy Truthseekers Check In Here"... "Sam Seder is on FIRE"... "Randi is on FIRE"...

..."OBAMA COMING UP RIGHT NOW ON CSPAN"...

...and a few others.

Oh yeah, this one...a word, not a phrase, but if I could turn a word into a rigid sigmoidoscope and use it to give the poster a colonoscopy, it would be this one:

LINK???

Also anything with "(Fill in name here) just got OWNED" or "(Fill in name here) just got PWNED"...the only thing those threads tell me is that the post is originating from the basement of the poster's parents' house.

:rofl:

[ashling]

36. Anything with "meme"

the most overused pseudo-intellectual word used around here

[hisownpetard]

37. What drives me most insane is when a commentator says, "If I'm Hillary Clinton..."

or "If I'm Barack Obama...".
DUDE. Look in the mirror.
You are NEITHER of those people.
If I'm you, I'm thinking what an asshole I sound like...

[AlCzervik]

38. "Off to the greatest page with you" Gate anything unless it's specifically about Watergate.

[nam78_two]

40. lolololol-one lol should be enough

;)

Of course I overuse smilies myself so I shouldn't talk.

[Lil Missy]

44. The brazillion joke. n/t

[Blue-Jay]

45. "Mom's basement".

That one is for people who are too fucking stupid to think of a creative insult.

[flvegan]

46. Wow. Just, wow.