I'm bored

[mizarchivist]

While socializing at lunch, I used the phrase "Put that in your pipe and smoke it" - in an English argumentative sense, rather than a stoner imperative.
What's your favorite obsolete/unusual phrase?

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[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

I'm rather fond of "How d'you like them apples?" but I pretty much never use it.

For unusual phrases that I use, "Whatever blows your hair back," is probably near the top of my favorites list :)

[samuraizergling.livejournal.com]

Aha! I knew I'd remember one if I thought long enough, and in-fact, I thought of two!

The twin phrases..(spoken when something amazing happens...)

"Well, cut off my legs and call me Shorty!"

and

"Well, cut of my shorts and call me Leggy!"

[beowabbit]

Eep. I've got a bunch of them, but I can't come up with them on short order. (I can search my brain for words and phrases by number of syllables, by first letter, by language, by cognates, and so forth, but not by degree of idiosyncracy.) Next time I use one I'll try to remember that it was mizarchivist who was asking about them, and approximately when in her journal that might have been. :-)

I did use the phrase "Jesus, Mary and Joseph slathered in butter and popping out of flying toasters" once, though.

[mizarchivist]

Jesus, Mary and Joseph slathered in butter and popping out of flying toasters

Wow. That's very silly.

[emerlion.livejournal.com]

"jesus h christ on a pogo stick!"

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

"Well, ain't that ice in the ol' urinal?"

[emerlion.livejournal.com]

I use the word "copacetic" a lot, and the phrase "Bob's your uncle!"

[catness.livejournal.com]

One I picked up from my ... uh ... great grandmother when I was in grade school is "Well, hell's bells!"

Also, from my grandmother/mother, "Pardon my boarding house reach."
I still use them both, but the former more than the latter.

Re: I am partial too...

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

My favorite one of those actually used in the TV series was:

Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods!

[mizarchivist]

That earned an early morning laugh-snort. Thankee.