The "favorite words" thread!

[Jolt]

This isn't a real word, but when we were kids, a friend of mine used to hear our family talk about moral fiber. One day, she tried to say it and is came out: morbal fire.

I always felt that the weighty implication of something called "morbal fire" to be much more intriguing!

Nice--spoonerisms can make for a good laugh! That reminded me of one my mom did once: she meant to say "if the shoe fits" and it came out "if the foo sh!ts"!! We must have been cracking up for a good ten minutes after that one!

[Starfish]

it came out "if the foo sh!ts"!!

Did she finish the saying with..."wear it!" ??

[Jolt]

Did she finish the saying with..."wear it!" ??

No, she didn't finish the sentence. We were making cookies around Christmas time, and I spilled some flour, and she made some comment, to which I replied "are you saying I'm a klutz?", and then she said (or meant to say) "Well, if the shoe fits..." and that's when she goofed it up and we couldn't get serious again for a while!

[Zen]

Hadn't completely caught up with this thread, some funny stuff here.

all I have is willy-nilly and careening

[Jolt]

And there's always making up big technical sounding terms for everyday things--here are a couple of my favorites: "cerebral flatulation" and "accidentally evacuating the legumes". (Can you figure out what common expressions these mean?)

EDIT: And how about, instead of saying somebody is a jerk, saying they're the third derivative of displacement (or second derivative of velocity)? Wow, this is bad. I may be a nerd, but I don't normally make physics jokes--usually they're more medical!

On a related note, instead of calling someone an @$$hole, they're an anal sphincter!

And then there's what one of my bio professors in college would say: "Feces occurs".