All Them Sayin's

At work, we feel the need to amuse ourselves on a fairly consistent basis. If we don't, we could be forced to actually work hard ALL DAY LONG. ~not~

We have all these little phrases we throw around. A lot of them come from the people we talk to everyday, if it makes us laugh, then we adopt it. It seeps into my other group of friends because well, I tell them what we say. One day Liz told me I needed to make a list of all our little catch phrases. And I always do what Liz says! So, here they are, in no particular order.

What in the cat hair is goin' on?
This was said by an agent on a voicemail asking how he could load up a picture onto the website. He said, and I quote "If sumbody could call me and tell me what the cat hair is goin' on around here.. " and I don't remember the rest because we always started laughing after that.

Hot on my duster
Another agent, another voicemail. He said he needed help figuring something out, cause his manager was "pretty hot on my duster 'bout gettin' this done." This one is one of my personal favorites, because I like to say "Get off my duster!" I really don't know what a duster is, and I hope no one tells me.

COME GIT YER DAWG!
This was said by one of our clients, who was purchasing some land next to him because he just didn't want anyone else to buy it.. cause his grandkids was over thar all the time, and his dawg ran up thar, and he didn't wont somebody yellin "COME GIT YER DAWG!" I think Celeste and I use that the most, cause we yell it down the hall sometimes. Which I'm *sure* people that are on the phone really enjoy trying to explain.

Look at my face.
Dana Dane worked with this girl who always said that. When D asked her a question, the girl would point to her face, and say "Look at my face.. mm-mmm." If D didn't look at her, the girl would continue to say "Look at my face. Look at my face" and when D finally looked, she'd get the pursed lips and the "Mm-mmm.." If she was on the phone, it was "Listen to me. Listen to me. Mm-mmm." This is REALLY hard to describe on a blog, because it's all in the WAY you say it. You need to summon as much attitude as you can, and you must look thoroughly unimpressed by the whole situation. You can also use it in the positive. I will give you an example:

Cookie, is Vin Diesel hot?
Look at my face.. MMMMMMM...

The reason we use it so much, is because it's ALWAYS FUNNY. Once you've used it properly, you cannot stop. You keep finding uses for it. I've got to remember to bring my digital camera to work and get a picture of D making the face so we can demonstrate the proper technique. All my friends say it now, it doesn't matter if you work with me or not. Tonight? As I was leaving knitting? From across the parking lot, Beth waved me down, pointed to her face, and said "Look at my face!"

If you don't think this is funny. Well.. look at my face. Mmmm.. you're *wrong*.

I'm fixin' to punch you in the face.
Dana uses this one. She says it to her son all the time. He's 10. He's never been punched in the face by her, he will never BE punched in the face by her, but she just likes to tell him he will. We started picking it up at work, because it's just fun to say.

Again, an example.

Everyone: Cookie, don't you know Vin Diesel is gay?
Cookie: Oh yeah?? Well, you're gonna be gay when I PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE.

See? It's just so ridiculous and fun to say. How can you not like that one?

Today, we got a new one. Again, it was Dana. She buzzed me, and said:

Hey.. Mike wants you to call him.
Okay.
He said something about turning over your apple table.... ?
Um. You mean upsetting my apple cart?
Yeaaaaaah, that was it!