"Somebody's got the 'Hungry Horrors'!"

[sniffa]

Every other day or so I decide to go get breakfast when we start work. I'm usually hungry enough to eat that meal, but I usually skip it. Over the last few weeks however, our work load has been light (sometimes nonexistent) so I've been going out to get bacon and eggs or a muffin or an egg sandwich. etc to kill some time. Every single time I get breakfast (save for today for some reason) the 55 year old, very proud to be hick douche I'm forced to work with until the end of November bellows at me (with a big douchey grin), "Somebody's got the 'Hungry Horrors'!"

I generally want to stick an ice-pick through his eye for several reasons but this has really gotten under my skin for some reason. December can't come soon enough.

Do any of you use this phrase? The only person I know that uses it is my 60 y.o. mother. I sometimes want to say to the guy, "Yes, I get it, you're old! You're obviously close to my parents' ages."

[Gormy Cuss]

1. No, but it was one of my mother's favorite expressions

and now that she's gone I think of her when I do hear it back in Maine.

[sniffa]

4. So it is an old expression

and I'm guessing a NE one. I'm fine with it (despite it being outdated) except for hearing it every day for me eating a meal I'm supposed to be eating every day. Granted, he eats his breakfast at about 4am every day so he may think I'm eating again a few hours later. :shrug:

[Gormy Cuss]

14. Yeah, it's an old NE expression.

Your co-worker may still be what bertha katzenengel calls a cow-irker though.

[Shakespeare]

2. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays!

I've never even heard of the "hungry horrors." You have my sympathy for having to work with someone so annoying!

[sniffa]

5. I googled it

and there's a ton of hits - mostly from people on diets complaining of the 'hungry horrors.'

I always take it as being stoned. And I'm not thanks to the local shortage. :eyes:

[AlCzervik]

3. i don't say that but my sister does.

she has the hungry horrors a lot and it shows.









Oh petty i know but i'm still really pissed at her.

[sniffa]

7. Wow, you're sister's elderly?

:o

[AlCzervik]

8. she also still says "Use your words" to my 11 year old niece.

everytime i hear her say that i imagine it's because niece is flipping her the bird.

[sniffa]

11. That's wicked pissah

As in I don't know what that means, but I know what wicked pissah means.

[DS1]

6. Remind him of his Bowel Boohoos

:shrug:

I've never heard of that, but I could have done without

[sniffa]

9. I take it you don't have an old parent, or grandparent from this area?

That was a common phrase when I was growing up. Haven't heard it in about 2 decades.

[DS1]

10. No, only immediate family moved here from England in 1980

[sniffa]

12. Did any of them pick up "wicked pissah"

That's more of a recent phrase here.

[DS1]

13. Nope

there were 4 of us, and were in NJ until 1994

We haven't picked up much, really