Showing posts with label phrases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phrases. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Say what?

"What's up chicken butt?"

For the last few weeks I have had this really obnoxious phrase stuck in my head. I honestly don't even know where it came from.  I think I can blame it on my good friend Deanna for starting it. . . .or maybe it was my good friend Christina. . . . but really as long as I can blame its origination on someone other than me, it's all good. 

Seriously, I know it's immature, doesn't make a lot of sense and all that, but I crack up every time I think about it!  I think we used to use it as a greeting in high school/college - yes we were that cool. 

Phrases and sayings are kind of like scents or music.  They can bring you back to a certain time in your life, or bring up certain emotions and thoughts. 

In Bible college (yes I went to Bible college) I had a professor who used to say "Bless God!" in this crazy, southern Baptist type voice - he would also say, "Blessed are the flexible, for they shall be flexed!"  Whenever I think of those phrases (usually at times of stress), I am reminded of this man of God and how he seemed to take everything in stride and with a touch of humor.

There are tons of other phrases and sayings, but my mind is overflowing with other stuff at the moment, so instead I want to hear from you.  What are some phrases that bring you back in time?  Or just phrases that you love or hate? 

**Update**  My reference to "crazy southern Baptist voice" had nothing to do with the Baptist (or southern Baptist) denomination or people who go to a Baptist church. . . . just what pops into my mind when I think of my professor!