Don't hurt your faces, folks, just a simple little clapping will suffice

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Don't hurt your faces, folks, just a simple little clapping will suffice

I think it's wonderful that Mel Brooks is a hundred years old. I watched a 1967 clip of the 2000-Year-Old Man for the occasion, but the majority of his currency in my household's dialect is realistically more like "Did you try to bullshit last week?" "Everything below the waist is kaput!" "That's our Hitler!" "And I'm still hysterical!" Long may his work rise below vulgarity.

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My standard way to say, yah, what is it, when someone is standing in the door of my office is, "Vilkommen, bienvenue, c'mon in."

"Keep firing, assholes!" gets some amount of play as well.

My standard way to say, yah, what is it, when someone is standing in the door of my office is, "Vilkommen, bienvenue, c'mon in."

Yay.

"I didn't make a yummy sound" is also a standard way we indicate that whatever the other family member may have heard in the environment, it was not meaningful speech from the speaker. I feel like this comes up a lot when you live with other people, and it only belatedly occurs to me that 1) maybe it doesn't and 2) maybe other people address it differently.

Edited 2026-06-28 23:00 (UTC)

I feel like this comes up a lot when you live with other people, and it only belatedly occurs to me that 1) maybe it doesn't and 2) maybe other people address it differently.

I don't know that my family has a set phrase for it, but I love that yours does (and that's it).

Edited 2026-06-29 02:23 (UTC)

Young Frankenstein was my gateway to the Universal monster movies, which would be enough in and of itself to be forever grateful to Mel Brooks (but there's so much more).

Young Frankenstein was my gateway to the Universal monster movies, which would be enough in and of itself to be forever grateful to Mel Brooks (but there's so much more).

I love that.

That's even better than 1066 And All That being my gateway to reading about history.

Delays are sometimes met with "Someone's gotta ride back and get a shitload of dimes!"

Delays are sometimes met with "Someone's gotta ride back and get a shitload of dimes!"

Yes!

For some time now there has been much occasion for "You know. Morons."

Yes fucking squared!!

"He must have an enormous schwanstucker!"
Not only a funny line in itself, but I once saw Young Frankenstein on TV, where the last word was very badly, obviously (and pointlessly) overdubbed with "personality!" Which was its own kind of memorably meta-funny.

Not only a funny line in itself, but I once saw Young Frankenstein on TV, where the last word was very badly, obviously (and pointlessly) overdubbed with "personality!" Which was its own kind of memorably meta-funny.

It's an incredible euphemism.

Absolutely delightful!

Absolutely delightful!

No one I have ever liked has turned out to be immortal, but it is so nice to have an excuse to celebrate someone while they are still around.

"And I'm still hysterical" has been in my vocabulary since I learned it from a WAV file on somebody's Gene Wilder fan website some time in the mid 2000s. I didn't get to actually see the movie until years later.

Keep on truckin' Mel!

Keep on truckin' Mel!

It's so nice.

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