What cliche drives you crazy? [Archive] - Cigar Asylum Cigar Forum

Gargoyle

01-30-2009, 09:11 AM

I'm not a morning person, so I was tired of always hearing "the early bird catches the worm" when I stumble into work at 9:30 or 10:00. I learned to counter that with "yeah, but the early worm gets a raw deal now, doesn't he." Thankfully, that kills that cliche very quickly for me.

What cliche drives you the most crazy and how do you cope with it when you hear it?

Shervin

01-30-2009, 09:12 AM

It is what it is!

MajorCaptSilly

01-30-2009, 09:14 AM

If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you..........please?

MCS

poker

01-30-2009, 09:17 AM

"I've never tried one of those before"
:r

icehog3

01-30-2009, 09:19 AM

"I've never tried one of those before"
:r

"Don't know if they are fake? Just send them all to me, I will smoke them and tell you." :rolleyes:

TripleF

01-30-2009, 09:19 AM

It is what it is!

Soooooooooooooooooooo agree with that.

I mean, "It is what it is", what the f does that mean?......absolutely NOTHING.

Col. Kurtz

01-30-2009, 09:25 AM

Soooooooooooooooooooo agree with that.

I mean, "It is what it is", what the f does that mean?......absolutely NOTHING.

Sounds so helpless or passive/aggressive.

That one is my biggest pet peeve. Had a really crappy boss that loved to say that. I loved to retort with "it is what you make it".

I really don't deal well when someone says "it is what it is". I'm still trying to learn to play nice.

chippewastud79

01-30-2009, 09:27 AM

I'm not a morning person, so I was tired of always hearing "the early bird catches the worm" when I stumble into work at 9:30 or 10:00. I learned to counter that with "yeah, but the early worm gets a raw deal now, doesn't he."

Don't know if you have heard the other retort to that but "The second (or late) mouse gets the cheese." :tu

Parshooter

01-30-2009, 09:39 AM

"We'll head them off at the pass"

tobii3

01-30-2009, 09:41 AM

my usual response is on my coffee mug....

ME BOSS

YOU NOT

'nuff said

:r

ChicagoWhiteSox

01-30-2009, 10:24 AM

must be attractive....not looking for sex

up one side and down the other

Hot enough for you?

Cold enough for you?

ahc4353

01-30-2009, 10:25 AM

If I tell you the MassHoles will use it on me every chance they get.

fuubar

01-30-2009, 10:26 AM

:rolleyes:I avoid cliches like the plague.

mikeyj23

01-30-2009, 10:28 AM

"Don't know if they are fake? Just send them all to me, I will smoke them and tell you." :rolleyes:

ditto
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boonedoggle

01-30-2009, 10:39 AM

"We'll head them off at the pass"

I DETEST that cliche!:D

Gargoyle

01-30-2009, 11:09 AM

Don't know if you have heard the other retort to that but "The second (or late) mouse gets the cheese." :tu

NICE! I love that one!

Killjoy

01-30-2009, 11:17 AM

I live in Las vegas so I have a couple

"Well it's a dry heat"
"Which Casino do you work at?"
another one I hate..
"The squeaky wheel gets the grease"

GrtndpwrflOZ

01-30-2009, 11:19 AM

"You can't have your cake and eat it too."

Which is crap! You can have your cake and eat it too.

What you can't do is

Eat your cake and have it too.
You ate it, you don't have it anymore. It's inside you. If that is what you call cake (be it that it is chewed up and mixed with bile) I don't want any!

field

01-30-2009, 11:25 AM

:rolleyes:I avoid cliches like the plague.

:r If I had a nickel for every time I'd heard that!!! ;)

gettysburgfreak

01-30-2009, 12:49 PM

when athletes are asked a question about a player they clearly do not like and they say "well hes a great player" everyone knows your lying out your ass, just tell the media how much you hate him.

Nick

01-30-2009, 12:52 PM

"Because I said so"

AAAHHHHHHHHHHH......RAAAAAAARRRRRR.

Kreth

01-30-2009, 01:17 PM

"For all intensive purposes..." :bh
"I can't speak to that..." (I always think, "OK, so STFU") :r

ucla695

01-30-2009, 01:22 PM

"Well it's a dry heat"

My buddy in Phoenix usually replies by saying something like "so is an oven."

tobii3

01-30-2009, 01:34 PM

""Cigar Aficionado rated this a 91"

:D

BigAl_SC

01-30-2009, 01:38 PM

Two that bug me....

Worked in a grocery store 'If it was a snake it would have bit me' . Hope it was a poisonous one, open your #$#$#$ eyes.

'To tell you the truth', does that mean you usually lie.

Shervin

01-31-2009, 01:23 AM

Sounds so helpless or passive/aggressive.

Had a really crappy boss that loved to say that.

So did I !!!

Shervin

01-31-2009, 01:24 AM

:r If I had a nickel for every time I'd heard that!!! ;)

Good one!

Shervin

01-31-2009, 01:26 AM

""Cigar Aficionado rated this a 91"

:D

Ahahahahahahahahahaha thats awesome!

lenguamor

01-31-2009, 02:26 AM

Cliches in general suck because they reinforce the general decay of original thought in modern communication.

But the worst of them all is "deja vu all over again." Because most people using it don't even know how delightfully ironic it was the first time it was uttered by its inventor, Yogi Berra in 1963.

Gargoyle

02-01-2009, 08:28 PM

Two others that I really hate:

"It's now or never". (Just heard Big Ben use it after the SB)

"Think outside the box" is another one that I hate. Why I am I in a box... and even if I was, why do I need to think outside of it?

massphatness

02-01-2009, 08:33 PM

"The world needs more Patricks."

:D

markem

02-01-2009, 08:38 PM

calling them "world champions" for winning the "national" league.

Gargoyle

02-01-2009, 08:39 PM

calling them "world champions" for winning the "national" league.

Bingo!

Gargoyle

02-01-2009, 08:39 PM

"The world needs more Patricks."

:D

You are the one that is spreading it! :fl

TheJ

02-01-2009, 08:41 PM

It is what it is!

That's a favorite of my gf/soon to be ex-gf:mad:

shilala

02-01-2009, 08:48 PM

It never fails that some wad will say "Wanna do mine next?" when I'm washing my car.

mikeyj23

02-02-2009, 04:55 AM

When people hear my name is Michael Jordan they think they have something clever to say - all of them are junk. My favorite?

"Did your parents name you that on purpose?"

No, b*tch, they drew the name out of a hat. :rolleyes:

shilala

02-02-2009, 07:12 AM

darb85

02-02-2009, 07:17 AM

I agree with if you friends jumped off a cliff one. My mom used to use that all the time until i was about 15 and I answered yes and spun on my heels. She cracked up and stopped using it.

loki

02-02-2009, 07:18 AM

loki

02-02-2009, 07:19 AM

It never fails that some wad will say "Wanna do mine next?" when I'm washing my car.

"sure.....(watch their eyes light up) for $200"

rizzle

02-02-2009, 08:41 AM

Soooooooooooooooooooo agree with that.

I mean, "It is what it is", what the f does that mean?......absolutely NOTHING.
I say that one on occasion. Good to know that I can now irritate you with it Scott.;)

smokeyandthebandit05

02-02-2009, 09:16 AM

I gotta say

"not for nothing" or "nothin for nothin but..."

darb85

02-02-2009, 10:06 AM

I like my box....

Im in a hand basket, not sure where we are going though

Chompers

02-02-2009, 10:08 AM

"Think outside the box" is another one that I hate. Why I am I in a box... and even if I was, why do I need to think outside of it?
I hate that one, because the cliche itself is not "thinking outside the box".

Gargoyle

02-02-2009, 02:29 PM

I agree with if you friends jumped off a cliff one. My mom used to use that all the time until i was about 15 and I answered yes and spun on my heels. She cracked up and stopped using it.

My mom used that one on me as well... I asked "if everyong breathed oxygen, do you think it might be a good idea?" I didn't end the argument though... I was just being a smart a$$ and got in more trouble with that one. :rolleyes:

bigliver

02-02-2009, 07:33 PM

My personal anti-favorite:

"Are you f*****g retarded?"

Actually, I don't really mind it, I'm just get angry because it always seems to be directed at me.

pnoon

02-02-2009, 07:34 PM

My personal anti-favorite:

"Are you f*****g retarded?"

Actually, I don't really mind it, I'm just get angry because it always seems to be directed at me.

Well? Are you?

;)

markem

02-02-2009, 07:42 PM

Well? Are you?

Don't be a ****ing retard, Peter

Ye Olde Phart

02-02-2009, 09:14 PM

"at the end of the day" :fl

Hudaddy

02-02-2009, 09:45 PM

Being in sales, you hear cliches constantly. Sales guys pretty can have entire conversations consisting totally from cliches.

The best example was on the Office, when the intern turned boss (turned grunt) gave the following speech:

“Yeah i created a website...

Look, at the end of the day, apples to apples, flying at 30 thousand feet, this is a paper company.

And I don't want us to get lost in the weeds or into a beauty contest.

Convergence... viral marketing... we're going gorilla... We're taking it to the street, while keeping an eye on the street, Wall Street.

I don't want to reinvent the wheel here, in other words… it is what it is.

- Buying paper just became fun.”

macpappy

02-03-2009, 04:39 AM

"Back in the day." Why don't they just say "long, long ago and far, far, away." Both are equally stupid.

"National Champions" Why? They didn't play every college football team in the nation?

icehog3

02-03-2009, 08:31 AM

"National Champions" Why? They didn't play every college football team in the nation?

World Series Champions don't play every baseball team in the World. ;)

MajorCaptSilly

02-03-2009, 08:36 AM

May I mambo dogface to the banana patch?

MCS

bigliver

02-03-2009, 05:31 PM

Well? Are you?

;)

I guess if the shoe fits...

Siebec

02-03-2009, 05:35 PM

"I'll sleep when I'm dead".

brigey57

02-03-2009, 05:41 PM

I through a piece of paper in the waste can, or at least try and some putz will say "a lazy man works twice!" No dim wit, I leave the paper on the floor and a cleaning person comes in and picks it up for me. Plus they are employed by the company so I create a job for them too. So there jerkweed!!!:pn

theycallmedan'lboone

02-03-2009, 06:27 PM

The phrase often uttered by surley young boys, often in response to a suggestion that they do something different. cut their hair, get a job, not disrespect their parents/teachers etc.

"I'm a grown ass man"

no, you're really not. You're 17. You're vaguely more than a boy, with that little patch of hair on your chin/upperlip, and a problem with authority. You've never done anything productive in your life, and think that everyone around you is against you. If I suggest you get a hair cut and shave the bloody mustach, you'd be surprised how far it'd get you.... sorry rant off.