Phrases only you and yours use?

[tuvor]

A couple of examples from my household:

Floor sweepings: those bags of salty snack foods that have a few pretzels, a few chips, a few Shreddies/Chex, a few "what the hell are these things?"

Fridge scrapings: Dinner made with what you have on hand.

Please tell me we're not the only ones.

[autorank]

1. Ice Box

[HEyHEY]

2. Crispies!

refering to the ice that forms on top of juice when my wierd sisters and I put it in the freezer for a few minutes.

[auntAgonist]

3. two of ours

Les FTohVoors = leftovers ..sounds like we're eating french :)

Mus Gos = the nasty stuff in the fridge that no longer qualifies as Les FTohVoors

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. It's scrounge night = Mom's too tired to cook

the BQ = the ex-wife (bitch queen)

tuna glop = mac & cheese, cream of celery soup, and tuna

[eleny]

5. Swollen glams

Only 'cause hubby made that mistake once and it stuck. Now we don't have glands, we have glams.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

6. We've go lots of funny words and phrases.

Most of them are funny names we call our son and each other.
Stinka, stinkanut, stinkanutbutt, babynut, little baynut, and bay are all pet names for each other.
buttons - as in "She's playing with buttons again." Playing with buttons means playing with hair and/or massaging scalp.

The following words are only used by my son.
greekie - My toddler son's word meaning blankie or blanket.
Mommo - Another of my son's words. It is what he calls Elmo.
speaky - This is what my son says when he wants to eat spaghetti.

[messyca]

7. "Poopy-pants"

Used whenever one of us is unusually crabby. I"ll say, "someone's got poopy-pants" He'll angrily defend himself until he realizes that he's arguing about not wearing poopy-pants. It certainly breaks the tension, and we avoid a lot of needless fights.

...I would also like to point out that this phrase is never used in a baby voice, not that it makes it any less ridiculous, it's just not as cutesy as it sounds.

[Bouncy Ball]

9. I've asked my husband if he needs some Midol

or if the cramps are really bad.

:crazy:

[Bouncy Ball]

8. What you call floor sweepings

we call "forest floor."

On edit: any frozen adult beverage is called a "Penis Colada." When we leave the house we yell out in a bad British accent "I'll be on my MOBILE if ya need me!" (ok that's a sentence, not a phrase)

Whenever anyone comes home, we raise our arms up in the air and yell "TA-DA!" We did it once and it made my husband smile so much we kept it and it still makes him smile.

"Get your bo-honkus over here" is a favorite.

Can't think of anymore, though I know we have tons.

[politicat]

10. of course...

"He's a Jaheira." This comes from a game we both play, Baldur's Gate. One of the characters says to one of the others, "Youare amusing... in a what the hell is wrong with you kind of way." For a while we quoted the line sotto voce to each other, but then realized that the oddities who populate our social circle haven't played the game, and so we could just give that couple glance and reference the character.

PHB. Pointy-haired boss. Refers to a Dilbert character. Means full of themselves and stupid at the same time. The Shrubbery planted in the Oval Office is a prime example of PHB.

"A BOH moment". Refers to Bastard Operator from Hell, a relatively early internet site about a SysOp with a serious case of sadism and megalomania. A BOH moment is what we fantasize about doing to those who have earned our enmity.

"Mary moments" refer to moments of extreme picky, anal retentiveness, named for "Romantic Mary" or Mary Romantic, another world of the weird internet person.

God, we're such geeks.

We occasionally meow at each other because it's clearer than fumbling for words when I've had a busy word day and he's having a corpus callosum on vacation day.

Pcat