Funny words

[bandit957]

I think 'ruin' is one of the funniest words in the English language. It rolls off the tongue in a cool way. There's lots of words like that which I think are funny. Here's more funny words...

mayhem
tirade
harangue
viaduct
engulf

I like the word 'grumble' too. I remember the time in 5th grade when my teacher accused me of "grumbling" instead of doing what I was told. Another funny word is 'spectacle', after my 5th grade teacher told a student, "You made a real spectacle of yourself."

[spooky]

moist

[Pete from Boston]

You spend a lot of time on your elementary school days, huh?

[route17fan]

Phooey! (<- a nod to my late Grandfather, who used to use that word when he couldn't find something) 

[Big John]

Phooey! (<- a nod to my late Grandfather, who used to use that word when he couldn't find something) 

Hong Kong Phooey

[route17fan]

Ha! I forgot about that   

[jakeroot]

You spend a lot of time on your elementary school days, huh?

I have also noticed this. I don't remember jack shit from my years at primary school. Bandit's memory is either amazing or he loves to reminisce.

Either way, no offence mate.

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On-topic: My uncle says "Jiminy Christmas" all the time. Always makes me chuckle.

[cjk374]

You spend a lot of time on your elementary school days, huh?

I have also noticed this. I don't remember jack shit from my years at primary school. Bandit's memory is either amazing or he loves to reminisce.

Either way, no offence mate.

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On-topic: My uncle says "Jiminy Christmas" all the time. Always makes me chuckle.

I say Jiminy Christmas all the time when dealing with a snafu...that also happens to be another funny anagram-turned-word.

[bandit957]

You spend a lot of time on your elementary school days, huh?

I have also noticed this. I don't remember jack shit from my years at primary school. Bandit's memory is either amazing or he loves to reminisce.

Either way, no offence mate.

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On-topic: My uncle says "Jiminy Christmas" all the time. Always makes me chuckle.

I say Jiminy Christmas all the time when dealing with a snafu...that also happens to be another funny anagram-turned-word.

I always thought "Heavens to Murgatroyd!" was funny.

[hotdogPi]

For me, it's the ones that start with strange letter combinations.

fjord
czar
tsunami
djinn
khaki
qat
mnemonic
pneumonia

[bandit957]

Also funny are these admonitions frequently spoken by adults back in my day, in increasing order of severity...

"I'm gonna brain you!"
"I'm gonna blast you!"
"I'm gonna smash you!"
"You...have...HAD IT!!!"

I think I only heard the last one maybe once or twice ever. That's how serious it was.

[Takumi]

Cackle

[bandit957]

'Rectify' is a funny word.

[SteveG1988]

As a place name. Intercourse, Blue Ball, and Bird in hand.

Bollocks is a fun word.

[Duke87]

Vestibule
Ostensibly
Vehicle

[SteveG1988]

[national highway 1]

Mezzanine.

[jeffandnicole]

Sweet.

[NE2]

Turkeyslap.

[cjk374]

You spend a lot of time on your elementary school days, huh?

I have also noticed this. I don't remember jack shit from my years at primary school. Bandit's memory is either amazing or he loves to reminisce.

Either way, no offence mate.

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On-topic: My uncle says "Jiminy Christmas" all the time. Always makes me chuckle.

I say Jiminy Christmas all the time when dealing with a snafu...that also happens to be another funny anagram-turned-word.

I always thought "Heavens to Murgatroyd!" was funny.

I say "Heavens to murgatroyd" also.  That comes from the Hanna Barbera character Sagglepuss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fwpj27hlP4

[Scott5114]

I'm pretty partial to "fiasco" and "debacle" myself. It was kind of a running joke amongst my friends for a while to discuss a happening at work and then have a mock debate as to whether it was classified as a debacle or a fiasco. The difference being that a fiasco was usually started with some sort of grand intent from management that just blew up in their face, while a debacle just sorta happened.

Something I've been doing lately is to substitute "dollars" for "money" in places where it doesn't really fit. It sounds stodgy and silly to say "We made lots of dollars today" instead of the normal "We made lots of money today".

It also find it fun to use specific, non-round numbers when exaggerating for effect. "There were, like, a hundred people cashing checks today" becomes "There were, like, 157 people cashing checks today".

[bandit957]

I'm pretty partial to "fiasco" and "debacle" myself.

'Disaster' is always useful.

[Takumi]

It also find it fun to use specific, non-round numbers when exaggerating for effect. "There were, like, a hundred people cashing checks today" becomes "There were, like, 157 people cashing checks today".

I've done this on occasion as well.

One thing my best friend and I do is go back and forth with Jeremy Clarkson-style overenunciations.

(Fast forward to 1:44 to hear an example)
Other examples including writing out "yes" as "yezzz" and "diseases" as "dizzeezzezz".

[bandit957]

The word 'incident' is always useful to describe someone wetting or soiling their pants. Once when I was growing up, someone soiled themselves at a Kroger supermarket, and my grandmother called it "the Kroger incident."

[Scott5114]

"Incident" is useful in pretty much every situation.

My group of friends has recently taken to referring to #1 as "primary bathroom functions" and #2 as "secondary bathroom functions" after an email from management referred to them that way. Gotta go do a secondary.