Nonsense you say to yourself?

[Wildswanderer]

Do you have words or phrases that are meaningless to others but mean something to you?

When I want to motivate myself to work hard, I say" "Rock-'n'-roll, B-man."
It's a quote from a 90sTV show ripped out of context.

 

[WalterTrull]

My grandmother used to say: "That's a whole meal for a little chicken" when she wanted us to 'clean the plate'. Vaguely nonsensical, but it worked. Brings a smile.

 

[JoshuaTree]

Study your math, key to the universe!

 

[JustGeorge]

Augee. Day. Garsi.

(Drink. Dad. Garbage.)

My 7 year old has speech apraxia, and not everything comes out right. And sometimes the incorrect sayings stick around. He can say drink and dad now, but we all say it as he did, just out of habit. Even the toddler calls his dad 'Day'.

 

[Jeremiah Ames]

da kine … whenever I lose a word in the middle of a sentence

i’m sure many will know where that came from

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

These terms have small meanings to some others, but more meaning to me:

"You think you know but you have no idea."

"This is why we can't have nice things."

"It's the internet. What's the worst that can happen?"

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Some others:

"Look what the cat dragged in."

"I continue to exist within this plane of existence."

"Time to get in the car."

 

[JoshuaTree]

Three dog night.

 

[Quagmire]

Whoo-dee-hey

It's a completely nonsensical word that doesn't mean anything to anyone except me. Not even sure when, where, or how I came up with it.

It's a word I use, mostly to myself, when I think the person I'm talking to has shut themselves off to reason, is just spouting nonsense, and I'd probably be better off just letting them.

Example:

Me: "No problem, the cafeteria is just west of where we are *points west*.

Them: "That isnt West, West is that way *points east"*

Me: "No, actually, West is that way *points West*

Them: "Then how come the West Wing of the library is over there"? *points East*

Me: "Because we're west of the library. The whole library is east of us, West Wing and all".

Them: *rolls-eyes condescendingly* "Oh I see: you know more about the library then the people who built it" *smirk smirk*

Me: "Well whoo-dee-hey! by God you're right! The cafeteria is that way". *points towards the women's gymnasium*

 

[sun rise]

From a short lived commercial many decades ago:

nicto-ala-lay-loo gorilla milk good

 

[SigurdReginson]

Eh... Sometimes I recite the Ashes Vohu when spit hits the fan for me. I may not follow the Gathic Zoroastrian path anymore, but it helps me center myself and calm down.

 

[JustGeorge]

My dad used to sing the last name of the man who lived in the house behind us, quite loudly.

"Carbeiner!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And one day my sister and I started going out the door to tell the man he was the subject of my dad's songs, I never saw him move so fast....

 

[SomeRandom]

I mostly just be a smart ***. But whenever something bad happens I always say “sadness.”
My coworker tells me she thinks of me whenever she watches inside out lol

 

[Deidre]

Some superstitious things...like on Friday the 13th...telling myself to beware of black cats in my path, and don't walk under ladders. Maybe I should test this, and if you never hear from me again, you'll know that it all happened, and my ''nonsense'' came true.

 

[SigurdReginson]

Anytime I help someone and pay for it, "No good deed goes unpunished." I picked that up from my dad.

 

[Quagmire]

Anytime I help someone and pay for it, "No good deed goes unpunished." I picked that up from my dad.

I learned that one from a whole bunch of different people.

 

[Gargovic Malkav]

Kardu ighdavo Baiyo!?
A phrase in a made up language which can be considered the equivalent of "WTF!?"

I don't use it often anymore though as it involves God's name and I try not to use His name in vain.

 

[JustGeorge]

Kardu ighdavo Baiyo!?
A phrase in a made up language which can be considered the equivalent of "WTF!?"

I don't use it often anymore though as it involves God's name and I try not to use His name in vain.

Do you have a made up language?

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I remember the "that's what she said" jokes and I mostly found them annoying and overused, but during that time, I had a friend that would say to anything, "Give you 50 bucks for it." even if we weren't talking items. He was a big Seinfeld fan so it could have come from Seinfeld. I'm tempted to revive the saying.

 

[Gargovic Malkav]

Do you have a made up language?

Kind of.
But I don't know it well enough to speak it fluently.