Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...

[Lannis]

Number 3 - Saying "Don't Call Me Shirley" whenever anyone uses the work "surely".     Jeez, it's been 30 years already .....

Number 2 - Dolly Parton.    No matter why her name comes up, country music singer, businesswoman, Dollywood, whatever, EVERYONE makes the mammary jokes and never stops.

And Number 1 -

Bestiality jokes whenever "Sheep" are mentioned.    Yes, it was funny the first through the 8 millionth time, but .....?


The next one on the list will be mentioning "that" song whenever someone says "Vincent" ..... !!   

Lannis relaxing after a big meal of spaghetti, bruschetta, and Jamaican Guinness Punch for dessert .....

[Triple Jim]

Here's a motorcycle related one:  Making jokes about someone wearing "Assless Chaps".  I see it regularly on boards, but by definition, chaps are leg coverings and aren't supposed to cover the ass.

Have you noticed that people born in the early part of the 20th century or before tended to have a repertoire of jokes, words, poems, and sayings?  A few that I used to hear, or still hear from people close to me:

* Always using the word "ornamental" instead of "Oriental"
* Asking if you were hatching it if you answer the phone on the 1st ring
* When asked how much something costs, they say "A buck three-eighty" or something equally clever
* Whenever someone coughed or talked about coughing, I'd hear "It's not the cough that carries 'em off, it's the coffin they carry 'em off in."

etc.

[sib]

Claiming that the V7 would be perfect if it only had another 100 cc displacement, 25 more hp, and better suspension.

[oldbike54]

 Oh boy , another pet peeve thread 

  Dusty

[fotoguzzi]

people who believe their "facts" over truth/science.

[Kent in Upstate NY]

Those who say "Joolery"

[Bisbonian]

Those who say "Joolery"

Ah, but that used to be an acceptable pronunciation and was even spelled in such a way to be correct. I used to make fun of my wife until I was set straight.

I shouldn't have been making fun anyway.

[oldbike54]

Ah, but that used to be an acceptable pronunciation and was even spelled in such a way to be correct. I used to make fun of my wife until I was set straight.

I shouldn't have been making fun anyway.

 Yep , kinda like critter was probably the way creature was pronounced in England 200 years ago .

  Dusty

[Robert]

Just Who was that "Assless Chap"?

[Rich A]

Rabbit ears behind someone's head in a photo (now image).

Rich A

[fotoguzzi]

my wife keeps calling Minnehaha Creek a Crick .. and she grew up on it's shore..

[oldbike54]

Have you noticed that people born in the early part of the 20th century or before tended to have a repertoire of jokes, words, poems, and sayings?  A few that I used to hear, or still hear from people close to me:

* Always using the word "ornamental" instead of "Oriental"
* Asking if you were hatching it if you answer the phone on the 1st ring
* When asked how much something costs, they say "A buck three-eighty" or something equally clever
* Whenever someone coughed or talked about coughing, I'd hear "It's not the cough that carries 'em off, it's the coffin they carry 'em off in."

etc.

 Those may be regional Jim , never heard any of them .

  Dusty

[Guzzistajohn]

Or those who refer to a subject as a MUTE point.

IE, Half the subjects on Wild Guzzi. Like, adding another 100cc's to a V7 is really a moot point because those dang I-talians don't give a crap!

 

[Lannis]

Or those who refer to a subject as a MUTE point.

Actually, I just realized that calling something "Played" is probably played by now .....

[Lannis]

people who believe their "facts" over truth/science.

Well, I'd rather believe my facts than your "truth" (note that YOUR "truth" is in quotes now   . )   Who gets to decide?   

[johnr]

sigh... using "use" as a plural of "you"

[oldbike54]

sigh... using "use" as a plural of "you"

 They spell that You'se , as in you'se guys in the state of New Jersey  How do you feel about ya'll John ?

  Dusty

[Guzzistajohn]

sigh... using "use" as a plural of "you"

That's youz guys, that's a little different.

How 'bout "axe" for ask then?   As in, "let me axe you dis question"

[oldbike54]

That's youz guys, that's a little different.

How 'bout "axe" for ask then?   As in, "let me axe you dis question"

 Actually pronouncing ask as axe goes back to the 18th and 19th centuries and is a pidgin English form of the word .

   Dusty

[Triple Jim]

I have heard that one, with "A dollar two ninety-eight" as well.

Me too.   

[Triple Jim]

sigh... using "use" as a plural of "you"

My mother's mom and dad came from the old country, and settled in Ohio, across the river from Wheeling, WV.  People from that area had a plural of "you" which was you-uns, but usually pronounced approximately "yoontz".  When they hung a baited hook in the water, they were feeshin', and after dinner, they washed the deeshes.  It was all European influence on the language.

[Sasquatch Jim]

They spell that You'se , as in you'se guys in the state of New Joisey 

  Dusty

   Fixed it for ya.

[twhitaker]

you do realize that ya'll is singular. The plural is all ya'll.

[Rough Edge racing]

 Uh, are use guys really anal about stuff like this or just being sarcastic ?   My wife's uncle calls the stove pipe a "chimley" and when asked when he was born, he says "bornded".  Makes me laugh inside.

[sib]

Well, I'd rather believe my facts than your "truth" (note that YOUR "truth" is in quotes now   . )   Who gets to decide?   

Or, as Wanda Landowska said to another harpsichordist who had a different take on the Goldberg Variations "You play it your way, I play it Bach's way".

[Cam3512]

How about when morons interchange "BOUGHT" with "BROUGHT",  "BROUGHT with "BOUGHT"?

[lucian]

Try living in Maine and hearing A YuH  as the response to every thing. And wicked , every things wicked a yuh.

[oldbike54]

Uh, are use guys really anal about stuff like this or just being sarcastic ?   My wife's uncle calls the stove pipe a "chimley" and when asked when he was born, he says "bornded".  Makes me laugh inside.

 Not really , however the myriad ways that Edelbrock and Mikuni are spelled  on CL ads is quite amusing 

  Dusty

[blackcat]

Axed vs. Asked as in "I'm not Axeing you, I'm telling you"

[Chuck in Indiana]

Jamaican Guinness Punch for dessert

Shirley you didn't drink that...