Are There Phrases that You Hate? Here are mine - most straight from Yuppyville

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. Step up to the plate

2. At the end of the day

3. What really torques me (as in what really makes me mad)

4. Piece of the puzzle

5. Wake Up America or Wake up people (I just hate this one) It really would be better just to say "You fucking idiots."

6. Overused words: buttery (used now to describe just about everything)

dollop (I just hate that word for some reason)

snarled - can't writers find a better word for this

[AlCzervik]

1. from the corporate use--Synergy

[youthere]

33. I'd add on "Proactive" and "Paradigm".

[HCE SuiGeneris]

120. "At this point in time" -- did you mean to say -- at this time?

Or "put points on the scoreboard" when score would suffice. :eyes:

[redwitch]

2. "Think outside the box"

I like dollop, it makes me think of whipped cream, or sour cream on a baked potato.

[Richardo]

3. "Clearly" anything...

"<Insert group here> just don't get it." (anyone who disagrees with me is a moron)

Using 'folks' in a post.

[Kali]

18. Guilty.

:blush: of both. Clearly, the first step for folks that don't get it, is to admit the problem.:P

[leftyladyfrommo]

20. How about "Absolutely"

I hear that one all of the time.

[Kali]

42. oh yeah

in fact I probably should have stayed away from this post - guilty of a lot of these!

[Left Is Write]

75. I am so guilty, I ought to wear a scarlet letter F on my chest.

I like the word "folks" and use it often. (I don't use it to address people, as in, "Folks, you need to listen to this...", but I use it in place of people. I guess some folks don't like that. :D )

[Oeditpus Rex]

86. You'n me both

I find it quite folksy.

:P

[Richardo]

90. Clearly, I meant the address form. :D

I have nothing against the noun. :hi:

[Left Is Write]

91. Whew.

Now I'm relieved.

:)

[blondeatlast]

100. Ah, okay. We ToP-loving book folk oughta stick together! nt

[blondeatlast]

98. I grew up with "folks," I enjoy "folks," and will continue to use "folks!"

My folks done raised me that way and I'm not about to let some folks cahnge me now... :hide:

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. Oh, and: Steaming mug of coffee - phrase found in absolutely

every novel. It drives me crazy because I watch for it in every book I read.

[Left Is Write]

113. Not only is it ubiquitous, it is questionable grammatically.

Shouldn't it be "mug of steaming coffee"?

[BlueStorm]

131. Yes that makes more sense

since it would apply that the liquid matter that is in the container (the cup) would be steaming and not the container itself.

Funny how even some of the best writers can get their grammer wrong.

Blue

[The2ndWheel]

5. "We have a comprehensive plan"

Any politician, anywhere, ever. Usually a 30 year plan. Until then, whoever isn't helped, sorry.

"Time for work"

"Where's my rent money?"

"Maybe"...ladies, if you don't want to go out on a date, just say no the non-nice way. It's far better.

[MorningGlow]

6. "Offline"

Specifically, "We'll talk offline," meaning "outside of this meeeting." We are not computers! Not yet, anyway.

[mainegreen]

7. The use of 'can' when 'will' is appropriate.

Such as 'Can you help me with this?' vs 'Will you help me with this?'.

I find it hard not to retort 'I don't know, can I?' every time someone uses can that way!

[Oeditpus Rex]

87. In a similar vein

"able to," as in "I was able to get my degree."

Great. Did you?

[Maddy McCall]

8. Cool Beans. 'Nuf Said. And I hate the word "meme"...

which has become, well, a "meme" at DU.

[youthere]

35. "meme" -hater here too!

[Rabrrrrrr]

48. Ooh - meme-hating! Now there's a meme worth talking about.

:P

[tigereye]

74. someone at work I really like says Cool beans all the time

so I've become more tolerant of that one.

[Kerrytravelers]

9. "By rights..."

My mom uses this one. Basically, ok to whatever you want to think, but really, it should be what I'm saying and everybody knows it.

I always reply with "Well, by rights, I think you're wrong, but hey, it's 'by rights,' isn't it?"


It's often used to justify her opinion when there is no valid thought behind it, just a way to be the "right one."

:eyes:

[begin_within]

10. "speaks to" as in, "Her tragic story speaks to the issues of race and class in America"

[azmouse]

11. Walk the walk, talk the talk.

Just typing that makes makes me want to spit! arrgghh!! :mad:


Edited to add: 'in terms of' and 'basically'. Both are sooo overused!!

[Hand]

43. Not to mention the wacko variations!

E.g., "Walk the talk". :wtf: does THAT mean?

[madinmaryland]

12. "Hey, if you haven't done anything wrong, what do you have to worry about?!?!"

:grr:

Just an excuse to trample the constitution for right wingers.

[leftyladyfrommo]

21. Boy is that the truth. n/t

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. And - Tools in our toolbox

That was kind of cute the first time I heard it. Now everybody uses it.

[evlbstrd]

14. Give you visibilty to ...

Huh?
Do you mean you want to show me something?

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. I don't think I've heard that one. n/t

[evlbstrd]

16. I believe it was made up

by cheerleader junior executives where I used to work.

[zingaro]

17. "grow" as in "grow your business" or the use of

"be proactive".

Either of those torque me at the end of the day, with a big buttery 'ol dollop of cool beans on top. Clearly, the synergy of these phrases can speak to the complete and utter lack of a comprehensive plan - a total lack of tools in the toolbox, if you will - on the part of our jingoistic society. Don't we have better tools in our idiomatic toolboxes than that? One has to wonder.

[leftyladyfrommo]

19. You are too funny.

When I was working in a bank I used to hear all kinds of stupid phrases. It was just so in to talk in dumbspeak.

[Left Is Write]

80. Oh, yuck. "Grow your business" and similar phrases are terrible.

[MissMillie]

22. "Whatever!"

which to me means you can't come up with a valid argument.

[Pool Hall Ace]

23. I'm really tired of "touch base."

Everybody and his brother was always trying to "touch base" with me to determine the status of blah blah blah . . . ugh.

Once, an HR bigshot (happens to be a freshly minted MBA) gave a talk where he used the word "vagaries" what seemed like at least once every 2 minutes. I think he discovered it in his thesaurus and it made him giggle.

[ashling]

24. I hate the word "meme"

"back in the day" ....back in what day, what the hell are you talking about!!!?

[leftyladyfrommo]

25. What's a Meme?

Is that like a computer memo? I've just been seeing that here lately.

[ashling]

57. gets used a lot here ... especially in GD

from Dictionary.com:

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–noun a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes.


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[Left Is Write]

78. No, no, it's a character in a musical. You know...Auntie Meme.

:P

[hfojvt]

102. I'm talking about my glory days

before the meme of thinking old people should shut up about their boring old stories and hoary conventional "wisdom" really took off.

[trof]

26. How are ya on 'nubbin'?

Seems to me that was a cause celebre at Spy magazine a few years back.
;-)

[trof]

27. OK...'issues'.

There are no more problems or bad behavior or things we just don't like or approve of.
Now there are just 'issues' that must be dealt with.
Or taken into consideration.

"John has 'issues' with chocolate cheesecake."
:eyes:

[leftyladyfrommo]

37. Oh, boy that one was huge where I worked.

Everything was an "issue." Gag me with a spoon.

"Huge" is another one.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

121. and a problem is an opportunity, doncha know

[LoZoccolo]

28. Here's another one from Yuppieville (Lincoln Park, Chicago).

Calling every small independent store a "boutique". There is a "boutique" deli near me; I mean, it says that on the awning.

[leftyladyfrommo]

38. Does that make me a "boutique pet sitter?"

Maybe I could use that to my advantage.

[jilln]

29. parallel path

That's what my coworkers say when they mean that to save time, instead of doing things in the proper order, they are doing two steps simultaneously (which then leads to starting from the beginning again because those two steps invariably affect each other).

I also hate marketing speak such as "dayparts" - the parts of the day already have names! Morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night!

[Kali]

45. dayparts - wierd

gotta try that one soon:evilgrin: :rofl:

[fhqwhgads]

147. i've never heard...

...the term dayparts used in any context other than media buying/strategy. i'd agree that using "dayparts" to refer to anything other than primetime, early fringe, etc. sounds really stupid. but it's an important word for us media types.

[evirus]

30. Gay=Stupid

god i hate when people say crap like that(what makes people think they could get away with using gay as another word for stupid?)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

31. manncoulter, ann the man, thats so gay, at the end of the day

[Chorophyll]

32. This is a weird one but...

Increased usage of the word "look" by pundits, politicos, and "journalists" when they're trying to put a point across forcefully.

As in: "we've got to implement such-and-such policy because, LOOK. The whole region will erupt if we don't."

I think it's a BBC kind of thing, but it's definitely spread to NPR and other places. Something obnoxious about it.

[leftyladyfrommo]

39. Well, thanks so much. Now I will notice everytime I hear that one.

You are right - and I hadn't noticed that one before.

[Chorophyll]

47. Sorry! :) n/t

[philosophie_en_rose]

34. "Things happen for a reason" (Translation: I couldn't care less about tragedy)

"It was God's Will." (Translation: There is a God. And he hates you)

Klintoon, Hitlery, etc (Translation: I am an idiot freeper.)

And in some situations - "Diversity" (when it means - Wanted: Token)

[blondeatlast]

103. God (or maybe Hell), YES. I had a very, very rough time of it last year

(my own illness while my mom was dying) and I wanted to just sock the people who offered that or similar comments.

All I can think of is that they didn't know what else to say, but you know, maybe saying nothing would have been better. In fact, it definitely would have been better.

[bleedingheart]

36. Lets do lunch and talk about this....offline

cringe...

[leftyladyfrommo]

40. You are kidding? People actually say that?

How do you keep a straight face?

[bleedingheart]

49. years of working in corporate america have numbed me to stupidity

[leftyladyfrommo]

I hadn't worked in a bank for years and years and I was kind of

flabbergasted at all the wierd phrases people used everyday.

Made me just want to hear plain ole English again. The old fashioned stuff without all of the buzzwords.

[bleedingheart]

54. My favorite are the acroynms....

get the ppt, to sgx before llp gets a hold if it and then its going to get all the way up to ooq...

gag....

[leftyladyfrommo]

67. Those mean nothing to me. I must have missed that phase.

But I don't like shortened words in place of the real word. I think it is irritating.

[leftofthedial]

41. life is a journey, not a destination

it's an elephant we eat one bite at a time

I mean, smell the coffee.

[cwydro]

44. Yeah, I'm pretty sick of meme.

[Hand]

46. "The plain fact of the matter is..." (followed by some blatant lie)

Very popular among Repukes, esp. Crashcart Dick. "The plain fact of the matter is that Saddam Hussein was in league with the Masons to take over the world's economy, along with the Jewish international bankers," etc., etc. :puke:

[mulsh]

50. " the fact of the matter"

a sign that smoke will soon be blowing up one's ass.

I also refuse to "dialog" with any one.

oh yea and I hated team sports when I was younger so I am definitely not a "team player"

"The fact of the matter" is most people who insist you be a "team player" are the furthest one can get form being a "team player"? let's dialog about this.

[Maestro]

51. God Bless America

It's used so much; at the end of speeches on bumper stickers. It's so ubiquitous that it means nothing now.

And political ads that say "I approve this message."

[leftyladyfrommo]

52. I just remembered another one that I used to hate:

Communicating info to someone.

I'm pretty sick of all forms of the word communicating.

[soleft]

53. Cut and Run

[GenDem]

58. And for that matter "stay the course"

How about let's "cut and run" on "stay the course"

[Sequoia]

55. "Moving forward" is another phrase I hate.

[jobycom]

56. Well, it is what it is. Is it apropos? nt

[graywarrior]

59. Paradigm. God I hate that word.

And "let's roll." Anyone says that to me, they lose credibility immediately.

[Left Is Write]

81. It's even worse in the phrase "paradigm shift."

I take it you won't be having one soon regarding the word paradigm? ;)

[Oeditpus Rex]

89. Hey, I'll give ya two nickel curves

for a paradigm shift.




:hide:

[GenDem]

60. "Bummer" "awesome" & "Cool"

Three that I am guilty of using way too often.

[leftyladyfrommo]

65. I like "bummer." It's kind of like ":oops." I love "oops."

or whoops.

[grasswire]

61. "impact" used as a verb

The resignation of Bolton will impact the WH.

A much, much better verb is "affect."

The resignation of Bolton will affect the WH.

[grasswire]

62. oh, and the dreaded double IS

"The problem with Bush is, is his stupidity."

Even the best of pundits have fallen into this usage.

NO DOUBLE IS!

[leftyladyfrommo]

66. Yea - that is way over used now.

That should be limited to planets and comets.

[tigereye]

77. impact gets to me, too

I always say to myself, it's not a verb! :grr:

It also makes me think of teeth. Who thinks up this stuff?


or "have an effect."

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

63. "that's fabulous"

out of the mouths of anyone other than a gay person is just very annoying to me. It screams hoity toity yuppie. Can't you just say thats good or great? Why embellish? When my gay friends say it, I'm all for it..anyone else says it I just wanna smack them.

[smtpgirl]

64. There is no "I" in Team

[cwydro]

93. My answer to that one is

"But there's a ME!":rofl:

[electricmonk]

68. Rock and roll

When used anywhere outside of a music discussion.

Said by a boss at the end of a production meeting, "Ok people, let's rock and roll." Said by a friend before going to move some furniture, "All right let's rock and roll." Also gets used in damn near every movie that has an action sequence in it too.

[Chorophyll]

84. God, yes. Agreed. n/t

[displacedtexan]

69. The prefix PRE + any verb

If you pre-drill a hole, you've drilled a damned hole.

If you pre-bake a pie shell, you may or may not have baked it.

You might've PAR-baked it (baked it partially).

Pre-glue
Pre-dust
pre-clamp

I'm pre-screaming here!

[raccoon]

145. Pre-plan is the one that really chaps my arse.

You plan. How the hell can you pre-plan? Does that mean you're planning to plan?

Also, "I could care less," used to mean you COULDN'T care less.

[WindRavenX]

70. I wish being a Yuppie was a terminal, painful, illness

NT

[Marie26]

71. "What happens when you assume?"

:mad:

[BlueStorm]

133. Oh God I hate that one...

Actually had one of my managers at Walgreens say that to me when I was working for them in high school.

BOSS: "So what happens when you assume?"

ME: "I don't know, what."

BOSS: "You make an ass out you and me, heh heh heh. Get it, ASS-U-ME"

Blue

[Montauk6]

72. "deplane" and "detrain", what's next, "debike"? "decar"? "depogostick"????

[Left Is Write]

79. Deplane, Boss! Deplane!

[Chorophyll]

85. "Debark" instead of "disembark."

Ugh.

[Montauk6]

126. Will they then use "debowel" instead of "disembowel"?

[Left Is Write]

73. I don't mind the word "dollop" - BUT

there's a Moxie Java coffee shop nearby that has a menu of their holiday drinks posted, and each one contains "dollap." As in, a "dollap of whipped cream."

It makes me crazy (crazier than usual, anyway). This is a glossy, professionally printed menu. I so desperately want to tell them they have misspelled dollop.

My husband hates dollop because it reminds him of the Daisy sour cream commercial.

[BlueStorm]

134. "Just a dollop, a dollop, a dollop of Daisy!!" n/t

[Left Is Write]

76. I just thought of something as I was replying to Richardo above...

Radio announcers and DJs who address a whole area of people as one. For example, when I was working in Stevens Point, one of our morning guys frequently said, "Good morning, Central Wisconsin! How are you?" or some such. It grated on my nerves. There is no one out there named "Central Wisconsin"! One of the cardinal rules I followed was to speak on the air as if addressing each listener individually. I'm proud to say I never referred to a whole region as one.

Rock stars do this often also, and I can't stand it. "Goodnight, Minneapolis! You've been great!"

[Stevendsmith]

82. Hella -- as in "that's hella cool."

[Kat45]

83. Someone has "a lot on her plate"

For some reason, that one bugs me.

[leftyladyfrommo]

139. I absolutely hate that one, too.

It is just an empty excuse.

[Alexander]

88. "Utilize" - from the corporate world

I'm like, dammit, why can't you just say use? Do you honestly think I don't know that's what "utilize" means??

[WilliamPitt]

92. Irregardless.

[VelmaD]

97. NOT. A. WORD.

I'm with you on that one.

My other least favorite...well, everyone pretty much knows... :)

[Bodineian]

94. Hi ! How Are Yer?

Here's the deal.........

At this point in time..........

Groovy........

Phat........

take it to the hoop....take it to the bank......bank on it.......

slam dunk............

the N word,

hyperbole

[libodem]

95. 'gone missing' and...

'troops' as in one of our troops were killed today. I don't get that? Is it to dehumanize the subject by rolling them in to one group? Bugs me.

[Flying Dream Blues]

96. Having said that....

Meme

at the end of the day

awesome

AMAZING



all of these...bleh!

[KamaAina]

99. Misunderestimated. Hispanically. Nucular.

Anything that reminds me of the usurper. :grr:

[philosophie_en_rose]

105. Hispanically??

I must have missed that gem.

[KamaAina]

115. Amazing, considering he's so fluent in Mexican...

:sarcasm:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/bushtext031901.htm (scroll down to near bottom)

A lot of times, in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses, Hispanically-owned or otherwise, pay taxes at the highest marginal rate, because most small businesses are not incorporated.

:dunce: :dunce: :dunce:

[philosophie_en_rose]

118. wow.

:rofl:

Is our children learning?

[hfojvt]

101. well step right up to the plate and snarl at me

at the end of the day it really torques me but it's just another piece of the puzzle. Um, I mean, brick in the wall :hide:

I bet I need to wake up, because I'm probably the fifth person who did this. I have not a dollop of originality.

[carlydenise]

104. here's my few

smidgen (how much ACTUALLY is a smidgen?)

dollop I hate that word also

person of interest- the new, politically correct way of calling someone a "suspect"

grassy knoll---- it was a hill, people

being "on board"- another politically correct way of saying-either join us or you are not one of us..

[Left Is Write]

112. A "person of interest" isn't necessarily a suspect...

and has not yet been classified as such by the police.

[Lowell]

106. "Brings to the table"

I hate it when they qualify someone for a position by saying "they bring to the table". Crap, I usually bring a 9mm Beretta to the table, its a tool of the trade. If it was dinner then I could make sure my steak was "done".

[AirmensMom]

107. Doable.

It even LOOKS funny. :banghead:

And how about "transition" as a verb? As in, "We should transition to a different system." :puke:

"Solution" as a verb is an other one of my favorite words to hate ... "Let's solution this problem." Double :puke:

Oh ... and "grow your business", as if it's a flower. :eyes:

It's all supposed to make us sound smarter, I suppose. :shrug:

[Fleshdancer]

108. "think about it"....

This phrase grates on my nerves. Don't tell me to "think about it" if we're already having a conversation on it. I'm already f*cking THINKING ABOUT IT!

I know it's used as a way to stress a point, but I can't stand it.

[Bodineian]

109. Git-R-Done?

Guess what?

Whatever?

On demand

All new...new and improved..25% free....

NewsWatch

The American people....

[bluethruandthru]

110. In addition to many of those above....

meme

meh (what is that?)

Experiential marketing

Know what I'm sayin'?

Spot on

[BlueIris]

111. "Transitioning." Anywhere. Especially when the justification

for the use of the non-word "transitioning" is "It's an intransitive verb!" or "How can that not be a word? I've heard my boss/CEO/thesis advisor use it dozens of times!"

[NC_Nurse]

114. going forward

:eyes:

[Taverner]

116. Low Hanging Fruit

This used to be an obscene term once...

[yy4me]

117. Top of my list: with au jus! A few others that get to me:

1) How cool is that

2) At this point in time

3) point in fact

4) thus far

[HCE SuiGeneris]

122. lmao @with au jus... even worse is.. .with au jus sauce :-O

[QMPMom]

119. Mission Statements. Yeah, every company/business has one

and when you get right down to it, they all should just say: Our Mission is to make the most money possible. I hate Mission Statements.

[GoneOffShore]

123. I hate pseudo hipsters with soul patches.

(added on edit)

Actually, I hate soul patches full stop - They make me want to drive a chopstick into the wearers earhole.

I don't know why, it's just irrational. Especially when the wearer is a no talent pseud.

[jane_pippin]

124. "Shop," as in "shop Hummel figurines, jockstraps, and more at our superstore!"

Is the word "for" really that much of a time cruncher, you yuppie, advertising bastids? No. No it is not.

You can also count me as a meme-hater, and I despise "at the end of the day," and "synergy." But, one of my most hated phrases of all fucking time is, "If I could just piggy-back on something Sheena said earlier..." GAH! It's the worst!

[tinfoil tiaras]

125. Words I hate? Okay...

-crusty. I just hate the sound of that. Sounds gross.
-scrupulous, scrupples, anything starting with an Sc with a hard "c" sound. Just no.
-"Jinx! You owe me a coke!" I remember that from like 4th grade...haha. Do people still say that? :rofl:
-"Rad!". Uh-uh. *wags finger*

[ncabot22]

127. Whatnot

I hate when people use the word "whatnot". I can't stand "at the end of the day" and I do not like when people say question and then ask the question..for example, "question. what time are we meeting?" I have a lot of verbal pet peeves.

[donheld]

136. Welcome to DU ncabot22

:hi:

[nicknameless]

128. "You go, girl!" That used to sound cool ... for about a month.

Now it sounds so stale that it makes me wince.

[grace0418]

129. One of my bosses keeps saying "____is more impactful..."

Is that even a real word? God, I am living the movie Office Space, except in graphic design. And boy do I have a goddamn case of the Mondays today.

[zingaro]

132. Impactful?

I think there's a cream for that.

Sheesh.

[donheld]

137. Welcome to DU zingaro

:hi:

[BlueStorm]

130. Happy as a clam...

Never got that one. How exactly do you know if a clam is happy? I mean they are mollusks and have no outer emotions, or even don't have the capability to feel emotions. All they do is either sit on the ocean floor or scoot around it on their little "foot" which is really the muscle or whatever it is. So how can you be "happy as a clam?"

Or "That's just peachy!!!" I hate that one.

Blue

[Rob H.]

135. Some of mine have already been mentioned; here are some others

1. bandwidth instead of time, as in, "I'd love to help out with that, but I just don't have the bandwidth." You are not a server nor a router nor a radio transmitter so you don't have bandwidth anyway! It could also be taken to mean you don't have the mental capacity, either, ya big moron.

2. compact form factor - In other words, it's small. Duh!

3. moving forward instead of in the future.

4. incentivize as a clunkier alternative to motivate or encourage.

5. aspirational - I once overheard a coworker tell an advertising agency rep, "I'm looking for something a little more aspirational." I don't think she meant "inspirational" I just think she didn't know what the hell she wanted and was putting the responsibility on the rep to figure something out.


I'm sure there are others that I've (mercifully) forgotten.

[donheld]

138. "Heads Up"

:grr: what the hell is that. OK I know what it is, it just annoys me.

[acmavm]

140. Issue. My boss always has an 'issue' with something. Or she

has 'issues' so she is very busy. Or something is an 'issue'.

I just want to scream "issue this Goddammit" accompanied with an appropriate gesture.

[leftyladyfrommo]

141. That is such a dumb word. n/t

[astral]

142. At First Blush . . .

coming from an NPR announcer. Makes me wanna say, "at first puke"

A First Glance is a glance. A First Blush is out of a Harlequin Romance. It is NOT CATCHY.

Also, we have another NPR announcer who likes to say "Twenty Oh Six" instead of "Two Thousand Six" when referring to the current year. He's been doing this for several years now and it makes me wanna barf.

Who knows why, it just does

[yy4me]

143. I forgot about my all time least favorite:

Went missing.

[baldguy]

144. "Interface" instead of talk.

An interface is a connection between two machines. People talk to one another.

[izzybeans]

146. my least favorite internet forum phrase (one that I am guilty of using once, just once)

Ding Ding Ding!!!! We have a winner!!!!

After I typed it I realized I would never say something like that out loud and decided to just simply reply with an "I agree".

I have never seen a poster give another person the "GONG!!! You're wrong!!!" when they disagree, but in light of the ubiquitous presence of the "Ding Ding Ding!!!!" somebody should provide some balance with the "Gong!!!! You're wrong!!!!"

Do me a favor everytime you read the "Ding Ding Ding!!!" respond with a playful "Gong!!!!" or some other series of wacky sounds, BoiOiOing!!! or Honk Honk!!! are also acceptable counterweights to an old fashioned "Ding Ding Ding!!!!"