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mknod  ·  3750 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Oblique Strategies For The Hubski Generation

"Smash your keyboard against the shower"

"Lights never change"

"I always sound the same"

"Where do you go when you end up in Away?"

"Dress in a dress"

"Create friction between two emotions"

"Lay on the floor and stare at soda"





lil  ·  3750 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    "Dress in a dress"

Pant in pants

Sweat in a sweater

Sneeze in a sleeve

Cuff your cuffs

Sock your socks and belt your belt while you're at it

Shoo your shoes

I could go on.

mknod  ·  3750 days ago  ·  link  ·  

ALLITERATION (pretend I stood on a desk in a big office and yelled that cause that's what I want to do).

I'm actually holding back quite a bit because I like seeing (hearing?) other replies. But I love sitting here thinking of ridiculous "vignettes of sentences". I think what I appreciate most about them is that it's mostly something you see/hear/say and then just throw away. There is no pressure to make up something that will make people think you're deep.

"Take your apple"

"If a fish cries do they know it?"

"Was Groucho always wearing a mask?"

"Is your car alive?"

"Pens Penis"

"Last one in is the greatest person alive!"

"No president has ever been to space"

"Make a lasting impression by beheading your ego"

"Cow milk?"

"Television rots your brain in a good way"

"I recommend 30 shots of kindness, taken intravenously"

"My anger gives you power"

"Knowledge is worthless, money is all that matters"

"Don't look a gift horse in the two bushes"

"Hurry up and breathe"

_refugee_  ·  3748 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    "Don't look a gift horse in the two bushes"

The other day my friend was complaining about salt bagels, asking why they exist, and I said "So deer can lick their wounds." I love making new, barely-sensical idioms - they only appear to make sense if not read too deeply, but most everyone who hears them understands where the phrase is coming from/what it is referencing.

mknod  ·  3747 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah! I do this too. I especially like someone doesn't get it. Every day we say weird idioms and pointing this out really can throw people in a brain loop.

_refugee_  ·  3743 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have two for you.

1 from tonight: "Sounds like a rock star!" Comes from kind of combining "Sounds good" and "You're a rockstar." Like, "I totally approve of all of these things [that you are doing]!" I mean, rock stars, by definition, sound good, so I feel like this is an easy one.

2 just remembered this one I made up on the spot

    sucks more balls than a vacuum in a cotton factory