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I'd bet dollar to donut that within this group there's a plethora of very cool invented words, expressions, rejoinders, witticisms, jokes, proverbs, and other verbalizations that have gone singularly (and disappointedly) unappreciated.

If you have one or more that you'd like to share, I for one will do my best to give it the appreciation it deserves and hope others will do the same. Not making any promises about the ones I don't get either other than that I commend you for your willingness to put it out there. You may be simply too sharp for the rest of us!

Oh, and thanks to Gypsy for stimulating the idea. It can be such fun to see everything connected to everything else and have others around who actually get off on it, too!

sachetm38519.9448263889If only I could remember any of them (now that it's
actually REQUESTED!!)
Well, there's a word I used most of my life, which is volumptuous. I was finally corrected that the word is actually voluptuous. However, I still think my word sounds more like what it means, don't you?

Sach...I bet you remember the Dead End Gang (Brooklyn..I think...'gang' in the late 40's-50s) on Sunday mornings, whose leader (oh, I wish I could remember his name)...anyway, he would use words that sounded like the ones he thought he was using. I loved it!

Great idea/topic, though, Sach! I'd like to hear some of your own.

I had one to contribute...but just can't remember ... I mean, it's ...right ...at the tip of my mind!

A woman I worked with many years ago used say "balls and crutches!" all the time...and to this day, I laugh just at the visualization of that one.

BTW, Sach...I laugh out loud a lot these days ... especially since I discovered this board, in fact.    My neighbor in the RV park (and we're don't have much room between spaces) knows I live alone, and probably think I'm going nuttso, laughing to myself so often over here.

It's okay Gypsy, my honey knows I'm on these boards and thinks I'm nuttso.  He just can't understand what is so funny.  I tell him if he would just read this stuff he'd understand. 

[QUOTE=bluebird38]I have a friend who is a neverending supplier of these sorts of things. One I will never forget is when she was getting worked up while telling me about something that happened. She was searching for words to describe someone and she ended up coming out with one word <struggle> then next word, <struggle, struggle>..last word.

She said, "What a.....Farting......Fruit......Head." 

WHAT?! hahaha  It's so stupid, but it still cracks me up.

Another one she came out with is (don't remember the context now), but it was, "...and there they are just acting like a bunch of rubber Bozo dolls."

I end up laughing at the images she creates more than her stories.
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Those both made me laught out loud, literally! I just finished a fascinating book called Mind Wide Open: Neuroscience for Everyday Life by Steven Johnson that said people rarely laughed out loud when they were alone. But I did at those!

I have a few like that, too, (from friends and family, but too tired to tell them now. Maybe tomorrow. Also, a few of my own!)

Oh, good show, guys! Keep 'em rolling!

Bluebird, I inherited my ADD from my Father, I've no doubt. I remember one time at dinner he wanted me to pass him the peas but couldn't find the right memory spot for the word so he hemmed and hawed and finally came out with, "pass me those...damned little green things!" That was 40 years ago or so and my Mother and I still crack up over it!

Because of his ADD (although we didn't know what it was at the time--we just thought he had a bad, if short-lived temper). When he'd get in one of those moods, we'd go "grump" him by getting in his face and saying in a silly way, "grump, grump, grump, grump, grump." Made him laugh every time!

One time my (former) friend Marcie was in the kitchen piddling around. I guess we were fixing dinner (we were roommates then). Out of the blue she said, "I wish they'd give us presents rather than our periods." I asked, "who, Marcie?" She said, "I don't know, whoever gives us our periods!"

A few years ago I came up with this:

"Wise is the man who seeks not new vistas to behold but new eyes with which to view the familiar."

Imagine how disappointed I was to learn that Proust had said almost the exact same thing only in different words!

sachetm38521.1993981482I have a friend who is a neverending supplier of these sorts of things. One I will never forget is when she was getting worked up while telling me about something that happened. She was searching for words to describe someone and she ended up coming out with one word <struggle> then next word, <struggle, struggle>..last word.

She said, "What a.....Farting......Fruit......Head." 

WHAT?! hahaha  It's so stupid, but it still cracks me up.

Another one she came out with is (don't remember the context now), but it was, "...and there they are just acting like a bunch of rubber Bozo dolls."

I end up laughing at the images she creates more than her stories.
...happy as a clam in high tide! (nice and safe)

Gripion:  I slipped on my a** because my shoes did not have enough gription.

Now that you've heard it you will use it.  Just watch. 

FNORT!

I remember the grade 8 trip to Quebec.... I thought somebody called me a fnort., laughed for like 20 minutes....


of course that's one of 2 things I remember from my childhood....... but oh well
A friend and I were watching a movie several years ago, and one of the characters was a little, well, pansyish. He wasn't gay, and it wasn't even a comedy, it was just the way his character was supposed to be. It was all the more amusing because it was supposed to be a serious movie. We couldn't help but chuckle at some of his scenes. But after one particularly flamboyant moment, my friend suddenly busted out laughing and exclaimed, "what a fruit salad!"

It was just one of those moments were you could tell she'd just made that up. Obviously the more common term "fruitcake" wouldn't have had nearly the same effect. That was approximately 6 years ago, and I still laugh out loud when I think about it.
bcgirl197838559.4953819444Gotta love the regional terms too. I'm from Newfoundland, there's more than an abundance of little-known terms out there! For example, "Oh my God" is almost always replaced with "Lord Jesus!". Of course, over the centuries, this simple term has been creatively modified into several humourous exclamations. Here are some of the favourites (I hope this doesn't offend anyone):

By the Lord Jesus!

By the Lord lovin' Jesus!

By the Lord thunderin' Jesus!

Lord almighty Jesus!

Lord jumpin' Jesus!

Lord jumpin' Joe and Jesus!

Note that using "by the" in front of "Lord" in any of these terms, or ommitting it, is perfectly acceptable. Adding "by the" is however usually used to add great empahsis in order to convey a particularly shocked expression. Picture a mother who has just found her 2 and 4 year olds covered head to foot in the remains of Dad's birthday cake -  ("by the Lord jumpin Joe and Jesus!!!!!!" - followed very closely of course by a whole slew of imaginative threats and promises).
hehehe--those are funny, bcgirl. i'll have to remember them.

The movie "Anchorman" has some good ones too..."GREAT CLUB OF THOR! Would you look at that."

My 86-year-old dad always retells a particular story and ALWAYS says, "He'd rather shoot ya than talk to you." He doesn't mean to be funny, just some old figure of speech from his era I guess, but this year when he told it, it struck me as hilarious. Can you imagine telling someone, "Ya know? Frankly, I'd rather shoot you than talk to you." It's surprisingly accurate in some cases. hahahaha

 

Like many fathers mine spent alot of time in his recliner.  Every so often he would stretch really big, sort of do that stretchy yell thing we all do sometimes, grin and say " Ah hell! the whole worlds flat and floating in a sea of horse sh*t."

I don't know where he got it, but I love it!

[QUOTE=msglitz]Like many fathers mine spent alot of time in his recliner.  Every so often he would stretch really big, sort of do that stretchy yell thing we all do sometimes, grin and say "Ah hell! the whole world's flat and floating in a sea of horse sh*t."

I don't know where he got it, but I love it![/QUOTE]
I love it, too!!!

Ok, I'm not ADHD, but my husband is & he comes up with some good ones!

Sometimes he'll say "Well, I'm no bathing beauty but....." I've told him 1,000 times its RAVING beauty, but....well, you know. LOL

After he had his vasectomy, he said he was "dis-MAN-tled"!! I laughed forever at that one! It was quite clever!

Also, & I don't know WHERE this came from, but my paternal grandmother called centipedes "Zoochigooches". In fact, because of her my entire extended family, & quite a few family friends, use her word for them. If anyone has ever heard of the word before, please let me know. She SWORE it was a real word but outside my family/friends, I have never heard it before.

 

[QUOTE=Shadawbi]

Also, & I don't know WHERE this came from, but my paternal grandmother called centipedes "Zoochigooches". In fact, because of her my entire extended family, & quite a few family friends, use her word for them. If anyone has ever heard of the word before, please let me know. She SWORE it was a real word but outside my family/friends, I have never heard it before.

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do you think she actually could have said " bazochii gundlachianus"  or something liket that?  One species of caterpillar is strymon bazochii gunlachianus so if you said bazochii and got the last part off a bit you might get it like that.  It's just something that occurred to me seeing that.  You know "zoochi" and bazochii just seemed coincidental.

Funny stuff everyone!  I'm enjoying the thread.

After seeing the thread this afternoon I've been recalling a lot of sayings and words I either picked up or made up.

"Rinky-dink clap-trap" for something stupid someone else did.  I think it's a combo saying but can't recall if it is.  Used to have a "friend" make fun of me for it by using it and getting laughs - but I now like the words and claim them as mine proudly.

"blurtatious" - I picked that up from Psych today - it's a new dictionary word for the urge some people have to say anything to fill airtime in a conversation - and I LIKE IT LOL

"make sure brain is in gear before engaging mouth" - bumper sticker my mom got me for 9th birthday gag - I don't have it anymore but remember to use it now.

"not the brightest bulb on the xmas tree"

I used to use an old poem my mom taught me for the days of the month - I've read it to people who say "where the heck you get that?" - it must have been old and rare.

"Thirty days hath September - April, June and November

All the rest have Thirty-One

Except February alone - which hath Twenty Eight, adding one for leap year"

It seems wordy and hard now but she taught me when I was very young and it stuck - and helped a lot once I started to need to know it.

 

NOPE! It was definately Zoochigooch. But maybe thats where she originally got it, who knows?? One time a family friend said, "He's nothing but a two-timing, splitback locust." What the heck is THAT?! LOL.

I always enjoy a good, creative insult. 
bluebird3838556.4819907407[quote=GlenW]"Thirty days hath September - April, June and November . . . All the rest have Thirty-One . . . Except February alone - which hath Twenty Eight, adding one for leap year"
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That's one I was taught in school, as well ... with a little variation about leap year...funny, tho, I can't remember. I'm actually glad you posted that, Glen, cuz I had forgotten the entire thing...which I've wanted to remember many a times when figuring out how many days a certain month has. Never was good at retaining info.

Heres a couple old ones I got from my parents.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Six to one, half a dozen to an other.

Two of my resident-mates are not from the US, one from Mexico and one
from Germany, man they come up with some good ones!!

You know when you don't want to hear something:

US version: lalalalal--I'm not listening!

Mexico version (said in Spanish, of course): lalalala--I have ears like a
fish!

I love it!

Other terms that have evolved with my friends over the years from "mis-
speaks" are as follows.

Au-grautin potatoes: All-rotten potatoes
Graham crackers: Graham crappers


hehehehehh"Graham crackers: Graham crappers" - HAHAHAHAHAHA!

I love the things that foreigners say. Here are a few from my friends:

"I'm so red faced." Turned out she meant "embarrassed."

Another friend went to Norway. She was invited to have cake and coffee with a friend at someone's house. At the end she tried to impress the host by saying Thank You in Norwegian. She said (phonetically), "Tak for kook an coffee." She said that everyone went silent and her friend looked mad. He took her aside and asked, "What's going on? What are you trying to say?" She told him and he said, "Oh, well what you did say was 'Thanks for c*ck and coffee."  hee hee hee

Attention Diversification Hyperactive Dynamics

Attentionally Diversified Hyperactive Dynamo

Acutely Diverse HyperDynamo

A cute, diverse, hyper davidornado

Davidornado (David is a Tornado)

Torynado (Victoria is a Tornado)

Loose stallion, wild canon, beating the walk of a different drum

Is that enough for now? I was actually on a google search for something else, when I tracked onto this subject. Now that I'm signed up, I'll probably not come back. But I might.

See y'all,

Davidornado

 

 

OOOH!  was that a guest appearance??  LOL!!For the longest time, I thought this was the correct expression, "For all intense purposes." 

My best friend from childhood still cannot say "murderer;" she says "murdaler."


Hey, I just came up with one in another forum. Check this out:

SNOREFUL

Lemon Jelly:

http://www.epitonic.com/artists/lemonjelly.html

Lemon Jelly falls somewhere between the light, obliquely ironic Lithium disco of Air and gentle, loving mockery of the musical pretensions of that genre. The English duo of Nick Franglen and Fred Deakin charts cool, ethereal courses through the little fluffy clouds, wandering off occasionally into candy-colored La La Land, while superimposing occasional samples of sleepy Discovery Channel/Mr. Rogers voices offering surreal, seemingly educationally derived narration. The grooves are rich and powerfully relaxed, the beats deep and hypnotic. This is way-downtempo dance music that makes you feel like someone's slipped a Valium into your champagne flute. *

*Quoted from Epitonic.com

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It sounds like the bi of a bipolar diagnosis. Or the depressive of a manic depressive dx. Because I like their music so much, maybe I am bi, like my wife keeps insisting. Thing is, Lithium only helped me catch up on sleep (maybe that's why my wife liked it so much...I was asleep all the time: no trouble) dep (16 hours per day). Snore. Snore. Snore. Snore. X Snore. Snore. Snore. Snore. = 16 snorefuls.

Hey, here's an ADDism:

I had a "snoreful" of sleep last night.

OR

I was overmedicated with "snoreful" medicine.

We can ADDit to our lexicADDology.

[QUOTE=sachetm] A few years ago I came up with this:

"Wise is the man who seeks not new vistas to behold but new eyes with which to view the familiar."

Imagine how disappointed I was to learn that Proust had said almost the exact same thing only in different words![/QUOTE]
Why disappointed, Sach? After all, great minds think alike, right?

I've never claimed to be the brightest penny. That's something I just emailed to a friend who couldn't believe that I couldn't figure something out or find something that was out in plain sight on a site they sent me to. Oh well.

These are some of the words I say even though there's no meaning nor are they true: "autistically"..well there's one..  Also, I remember when my 7 year old neice was still a baby and sucking on people's fingers. My mom was holding her and she was sucking on my older brother's finger and I was very impatient..and out loud I said.. "Hey! I want my singer f***ed too!" My brother just laughed, so did my younger sister. I got to 's' and the 'f' switched around.

fukaiotaku38555.5811458333fukaiotaku!!!!!!! ROFLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, I'm at work so I can't laugh out loud, but if I could. HAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!

Ok, not a witticism, but pretty darn funny and it's on my mind. My mom and I have been laughing about this for days.

My dog is EXTREMELY housebroken. She will hurt herself before she would go in the house...and she is particular about where she goes.

The other day I took her to my friend's house. Right as I pulled up to her house, someone called on my cell phone. I talked as I was getting her out of the car, and was kind of distracted as I was walking her across the street on her leash. She started pulling, so I just let her have her way a little...

Well, her huband grooms their lawn to be a putting green, so it is very short and has those in-the-ground putting cups. I didn't realize what she was doing for a minute until I looked down and went, "OH MY GOSH! What on EARTH are you doing?" She had pulled up to a putting cup and was going #2 right into it! You could tell that she was being VERY careful to get it just right too.  LOL

I cleaned up after her and told her husband and everyone thought it was too funny. My little dog the perfectionist. :D I suppose if you don't know what golf is, doing what she did makes perfect sense. She gets an "A" for creative thinking! :D :D :D  Maybe we're BOTH ADHD?  LOLOL.


I sometimes say that something has been "Frenchafied" when a word sounds fancy, but is just describing something plain and ordinary.

I like adding extra sounds to words, too.  Once I was thinking up funny ways to say the word mayonnaise. May-o-uh-naise, May-o-ma-na-maise, May-mo-no-aise, etc. I made a song up about mayonnaise, too. I found it quite humorous, but other people didn't appreciate it as much.

As a child it always tickled me pink when my mother would say we're going up to the atti-nic to have a pic-i-nic and cut out toe-ni-nails.    I guess you had to hear her say it to entirely appreciate it. I'd rather have a frontal lobotomy than a bottle in front of me.

Well, you did include jokes, so here's my "ugghhh" joke for the day...

 

"Two vultures board an airplane, each carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at them and says, "I'm sorry, gentlemen, only one carrion allowed per passenger."

you mean its NOT French Benifits but fringe?

(current commercial sort of)

I have no ideal what the commercial is for.
My ADHD daughter & I use this word :  When one of us in having an attitude we tell each other not to get  "attitudinal"! It never fails to crack us up & lighten the mood!One of my friend's kids always used to tell me " See you tomorning" instead of tomarrow morning.

A favorite from my grandfather, adopted enthusiastically by the rest of my family:

"Well, if [such and such] is true, then my ass is a soda fountain!"

This one from some current movie: Shut your mouth
when your talking to me.

Don't burn your bridges until you get to them.
If the shoe fits, buy 'em.
Birds of a feather, usually look the same.

I have more, but of course can't think of any.

My wife doesn't "get" any of my humor.{oh, is that
what you call it?}

BLURBIRD - YOUR ADD & MY ADD ARE KILLING ME!!!! 

As I was reading your post, part of the way through my mind lost focus, and when I regained my focus and continued reading(see below in red where my focus kicked back in) I thought you were now talking about your friend, because you were flip/flopping "her" using it interchangeably in meaning your dog, and your girlfriend.  This caused me to go into a hysterical confusion  and was SHOCKED  to find out that - YOUR FRIEND was DOING HER DEED IN HER HUSBANDS GOLF HOLE...and THEN YOU CLEANED UP AFTER HER!!!!   lol!!!!  


Well, her huband grooms their lawn to be a putting green, so it is very short and has those in-the-ground putting cups. I didn't realize what she was doing for a minute until I looked down and went, "OH MY GOSH! What on EARTH are you doing?" She had pulled up to a putting cup and was going #2 right into it! You could tell that she was being VERY careful to get it just right too.  LOL

I cleaned up after her and told her husband and everyone thought it was too funny. My little dog the perfectionist. :D I suppose if you don't know what golf is, doing what she did makes perfect sense. She gets an "A" for creative thinking! :D :D :D  Maybe we're BOTH ADHD?  LOLOL.

THANKS FOR THE LAUGH             

I was just reminded a funny thing reading the posts about Grahm Crappers and people of foreign languages.

I worked for an medical company and I had got a call from a nursing facility that had asian nurses.  The caller had a very thick accent and was requesting an ambulance.  I was asking the typical questions and the nurse told me her patient had "chicken breath"  I was befumbled & Sevral times I asked for her to repeat herself, and finally i realized.... she was saing "SHE CAN BREATH" in response to my question "Is the patient breating?"

 

Thorns4Life38729.0596064815Thorns, Good Lord! hahaha  That makes the story 100% more crazy! hehehe

Funny about the chicken breath.

I worked at a 5 & dime store when I was 19. A very dirty, older lady came through my line and asked what sounded like, "Do you have any thut remover?" I really was trying to be friendly and nice, but I had to ask her several times what she was saying and she became increasingly agitated. Finally, I picked up the phone in my booth and called up to the manager (who was in one of those glass offices above the store). As she watched, I sort of turned my head and asked the manager, "Umm...do we have any 'thut' remover?" I didn't know what else to do! hahahaha

The manager asked me to repeat myself. I said it exactly the same way. She freaked out and started yelling, "I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING!!! WHAT IS IT THAT YOU WANT?! WHAT DOES IT DO???!" So, I politely asked the customer the same thing. She responded, "to clean my chimney." OOOOOOOOOOOOHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....SOOT REMOVER!!! LOLOLOL.


AssPerGrass - Asparagus   - .

My Spanglish                                                                                                                                             Mucho Grassy Ass  = Thank you                                                                                                     Buenos Nachos = Good Night                                                                                                                  To Kill Ya =  Tequila

 

Totaly Maverick  =  Holy Cow     In my office my coworker often says "Holy Cow" and I jokingly made fun of her, and started analyzing the prase and wondered how someone come up w/ that and when was the first time it was said ... well we were being dorks and my coworkers and I went dictionary.com and started looking up the meaning Holy and Cow, and came up with the new  word... "Totally Maverick "

 

Thorns4Life38729.0614814815

LTC1 I think your phrase is meant to say Six "OF" one, half a dozen "OF" another...Of course I could be totally off and have not ear the phrase correctly

[QUOTE=LTC1]

Six to one, half a dozen to an other.

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"Stop making a testicle out of yourself"

...sounds better when said out loud.

[QUOTE=bluebird38] For the longest time, I thought this was the correct expression, "For all intense purposes." 
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Really, BB? And I for the longest time I thought it was "For all intensive purposes."   
I Suffer

A Witicism on
A Witicism    

By Davidornadog


"Merci! I do not suffer from ADHD! I rather enjoy every minute of it...

...it appears to others that I suffer!"...

A Witicism on
A Witicism    

By Davidornadog

Davidornadog

Another Witicism, by Davidornado

DAvidornadog is a Gringo capitalist who brings his talents to a wide range of ventures. He is an enormously successful bankrupt entrepreneur and CEO founder of several enterprises that carry the thoughts of upheaval and rebellion. He brought revolution to the thinking industry by claiming he was ADHD and is recognized as one of the most fascinating business leaders in his own mind. He started his first business selling worms to golfers while he was still in grammar school.


Another Witicism, by Davidornado

[QUOTE=Davidornado]For the record: *


I do not suffer from ADHD, I rather enjoy every minute of it...

...it appears to be those around me that suffer...


* In case I change my signature...
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    I could not have said it better if I tried.I know I laugh more and have more fun than most grownups  because  I am not self-conscious about my immature behavior.Since I've only known for a month that I had ADHD, I've been the happy idiot with the high IQ,who could almost feel sorry for all the suffering people who couldn't see that the cup was always half-full and didn't know how to make themselves laugh.

Merci ! I'm on a Journey.

A poem, by Davidornado

I'm on a Journey--

I'm headed West.

No straight road--

A Web at best.

A Poem, by Davidornado
For the record: *


I do not suffer from ADHD, I rather enjoy every minute of it...

...it appears to be those around me that suffer...


* In case I change my signature...
Thorns4Life38729.0632060185DR  i f T i n g T h e  R i f F

*When encountering a mesmerizing musical chord or riff, the state of instant and terminal catatonia. Terminal as in when the riff terminates, so does the catatonia. I see rainbow...home must be happy and in order tonight

I forget there's an audience out there... I better be careful... Y'all might start talkin' a/b my back behind me again... I think I do better when noe ne is lookign. My fingers shore don't, tho... mebe it's the night time, or the time of night... so, g'nite, my friends, and good night, my fiends. Hey, did you notice the difference between a freind and an enemy is one letter? Merci, I hate not having spell check. I didn't realixe how ba da speller I was... I ain't crazy, I jsut don't have a speck cheller...

Davidornado38729.4190972222Hey, I thought you were at work! I owe, I owe, I owe my elf some sleep... I'm off to sleep. No eating tonight. Yay!

Hey, that rainbow could make a cool name for a band. Or a song. Or a Lemon Jelly album...

"I do not suffer from ADHD, I make a lot of money off it..."
  Davidornado38729.4195949074Unappreciated witicism:

Merci, I hate not having spell check. I didn't realixe how ba da speller I was...

...I ain't crazy, I jsut don't have a speck cheller...
I Do Not Suffer

A Witicism, by DAvidornado

"I do not suffer from ADHD,

I rather make a lot of money off of it..."

A Witicism, by DAvidornado Nah, just everyones in bed, so no firefight since my last distraction... Davidornado38729.4199305556Thorns4Life38729.0619791667Thorns4Life38729.0627314815

I thought this was a funny but totally appropriate topic. When I read that adults with ADHD often have a sense of humor that can border on inappropriate, I had a lightbulb moment and realized that I'm not so bizarre afterall. My sense of humor gets me in trouble at times and I've grown up apologizing for everything that comes out of my mouth, even when it's perfectly fine. I once saw the perfect bumper sticker that said, "My mother was a travel agent for guilt trips." Combine that with ADHD and it's the perfect recipe for constantly second-guessing oneself.

The other day one of my coworkers (male and 23) called me Mrs. and it made me feel old (I'm 35). The first thing I thought of was Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate saying, "Are you trying to seduce me Mrs. Robinson?" I told him this then immediately regretted it because I didn't want him to take it wrong.

A friend of mine told me that he and his wife went to the neighbor's house to see their new couch which was suede. He immediate says, "Does it leave ass marks when you sit on it naked?" His wife almost killed him. I thought it was the funniest thing I ever heard. I told him that it was just another one of his ADHD traits.

I left a note for my boss on a book with training classes telling him I'd like to take the one entitled, "How not to piss off your boss" or the must-have "I've got ADHD and can't file. How do I not to get fired."

:)

Has anyone ever watch Curb Your Enthusiam on HBO? If ever there was a man with ADHD, it's Larry David. He kills me and makes me feel better about myself. [QUOTE=Thorns4Life]

LTC1 I think your phrase is meant to say Six "OF" one, half a dozen "OF" another...Of course I could be totally off and have not ear the phrase correctly

[QUOTE=LTC1]
Six to one, half a dozen to an other.

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Actually, you are both correct...it can be and has been said both ways for many years. Either way, it says the same thing. Here's a bossy one:

Retentive dyskinesia is a serious disorder caused by the long-term use of traditional management or supervisory techniques. Retentive dyskinesia is characterized by repetitive, involuntary, and purposeless movements. Features of the disorder may include grimacing, tongue protrusion, lip smacking, puckering, pursing of the lips, and rapid eye movement. Symptoms get worse as it approaches quitting time. Sounds may emerge from their oral orifice and/or office, but they are uttering meaninglessness.


 just a few terms I came up with to explain "medically"what might be wrong with some of the "bosses" at work.

optical rectalitis : when the nerves of the eyes and the anus gets crossed up and you get a crappy outlook on things.2 in severe cases ,you don't know whether to s**t or go blind.

anal apoxia : when the hemorroids swell shutting oxygen off to the brain.

cerebreal fecalosis : 'nuffsaid.

daniel

When I was taking confirmation classes (Episcopal) when I was 13, part of "passing" was being able to write out the Lord's prayer, which I did, including...

"lead a snot into temptation."

When the priest read that he got hysterical and called my parents to tell them. They cracked up too. When they asked me about this, I explained that I'd always thought it was a bit strange but figured it was some kind of Biblical snot--not the regular kind that came out of your nose.

They all cracked up even more!

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Sachetm: "lead a snot into temptation."

  HA HA HA  !!!

I needed that laugh, Thanks!

I was raised to be a  true  southern belle....haha on that...I was  taught to say ...I'm so mad that I can spit

Thats  suppose to mean i'm really  mad.....When the kids are outside and  they get really  dirty...hubby uses the  phrase....what were ya  doing  out there  ruttin for  pig tit..

The reason I’m attention deficit now is that no one’s paid me any lately.

I used to think God's real name was Howard. "Our Father Who art in Heaven, Howard be thy name"! That isn't as funny as leading a snot into temptation though! [QUOTE=sachetm]"lead a snot into temptation.[/QUOTE]
Holy 'snot?
  ADHD definition: "figlet of my imagination" ....

...the shorter portion of a figment that an ADr is able to retain and act upon...