Ten Annoying Phrases that Might Get Locked Up One Day

C.B. Jones
If I snap, It'll be because of one of these painfully annoying phrases I've been exposed to over the years.

I know, right?
Nah, you don't. Unfortunately, I don't feel like repeating what I just said.

Yeah, I'ma hav'ta cop that.
Depending on where you grew up, cops are seen as the enemy. The term "cop that" is confusing as it refers to the speaker acquiring something. By copping that, do you intend to rig it with microphones and record suspicious activity in the neighborhood? You know what they call that, right....

Snitch!/Stop Snitching!
Whenever I hear/read that word, I can't help but picture some eight year old spazzing out in school. "Ey yo, why you taddle on me? I let you play with by Hot Wheels and everything....Man, WHY YOU GOTTA PLAY ME LIKE THAT?!?!?!?!"

Well, All I know is...
All you know couldn't fill a thimble.

And so I was like...
anything following that phrase should be tuned out no matter what. Nothing relevant has ever been said/written/typed after those words(except this).

My Mans and dem.
...What...in the...blue hell...does that even mean?

you know/youknowwhatimsayin?
Athletes kill me with this one. No nimrod,we don't know what you're saying. We could probably figure it out if you stopped saying "um" after every four words. When doing interviews, just assume everyone else in the world is clueless, and you are the incomparable grand poobah of knowledge.

Feel me?
No thanks. I don't swing that way, playa'.

It's a free country.
This is true. The United States of America is a free country...That doesn't mean you have immunity from being called out for whatever comments come spewing out of your gullet. Can't handle criticism? Too bad, it's a free country!

That's what I'm talking about!
Really? I thought you were going on about something else entirely. Color me disappointed and unimpressed.

Published by C.B. Jones

Working from home, cbjones hopes to one day be able to look back at his 4th grade teacher, and laugh in her face for saying that no body can claim ownership of Saturn's rings.It will be a day which will be d...  View profile

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  • zonk11/22/2010

    Awesome. Right? :)

  • Shannon Lausch1/13/2009

    Now that's what I'm talking about! Sorry, I couldn't resist :) Funny article!

  • Maria Roth1/10/2009

    But the phrases themselves won't be locked up, right? ;)

  • Justice Lives Not1/10/2009

    THANK YOU for adding 'ya know what I'm sayin?" That one is my linguistic and idomatic PET PEEVE! People who say that all the time need an ass-whoopin, ya know what I'm sayin', bro?

  • Stoneskin1/10/2009

    Damn, after reading "And so I was like..." I tuned out of the rest of your piece. Feel me?

  • 3lilangels1/9/2009

    too funny, great read and so funny!

  • Gayle Crabtree1/9/2009

    LOL!
    You are right on target.

  • Matt Remley1/9/2009

    Why you gotta play me like that g.

  • Janet Roof1/9/2009

    Great phrases, don't forget the Jersey phrase, "You want I should..."

  • Carol Roach1/9/2009

    never heard the cop one before

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