(Hmmm. Maybe it was two years ago. Not sure on the spelling, btw. Could be "stoopid.")

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My boyfriend has a habit of saying "nails!" whenever he's pleased with himself or has succeeded at something. I used to hate it, now I find myself saying it... oh well...
 

Gotta love ya, Bob.
 

"Gosh freakin darn it"

"Sup"

 

One of would say "Frequin' A!" The other would have to say "Frequin' B!"

My new favorite phrase is from that Shaggy Song: "It wasn't me." Got to have the right hand wave (dismissive, of course).

Wicked cool.

Jimmies.

What the dilly-o. (this ones a little old)
 

Man, this class it totally kicking my refuse!

He really kicked my refuse at Mario Cart the other day.

Hmm. I'm not so sure.
 

It's also satisfying to say the letter "F" in moments of extreme emotion. Sometimes you have to follow it up with a "me."

I also like calling people "folks." I guess I don't use actual slang too often.
 

Funny thing about "Cool beans" is everyone seems to think they invented it or that they know the person who did. Weird cultural phenomenon, there.
 

I enjoy sticking my tongue out at people who give harsh, critical stares.

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I used to have a bad habit of picking up turns of phrase that I thought were funny, and then using them in a joking, sarcastic manner until I'd discover that they'd seeped into my regular speech. "Good Lord and Butter", "God's teeth!", "Great Scott" "Odd Bodkins!", and "Odds my Bodkins" (10 points to anyone who recognizes the source of "Odds my Bodkins") are among the terms that unfortunately made it into my regular speech at one point or another. Actually, looking back on that habit I find it a little bit embarassing--I'm not a big fan of affectation, and that's pretty much what that amounted to. I'm managed to purge my speech of all of that, although I do still say "Good Lord!". I've managed to get rid of the "and butter" half of that phrase.
 

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She also used to use the word "kyarn" to mean filth or ickiness.

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I've noticed that people from Delaware and Maryland say, "Golly day," a lot. It can be amusing or annoying, depending on your mood.

I've never heard anyone outside of Georgia say, "Hell's bells." That is what I say when I'm really, really upset.

Another Georgia phenomenon is to say, "bless his/her heart" after saying something ... unpleasant about someone.
 

I find myself using the phrase, "Shazbot", and "Frelling"
There was an interesting curse word/phrase from the old Battlestar Galactica that I have used as well. I have forgotten it now, but as soon as someone here reminds me of it, I will probably use it again.

I also have called someone a "Scruffy looking nerf herder"
 

"Shards and shells."

" By the first egg."
 

Vana, I don't really know what snarky means, but snark hunting is from Lewis Carroll:
http://www.literature.org/authors/carroll-lewis/the-hunting-of-the-snark/

I have learned to greet people with a "Wazzaaaaahhh," meaning of course "How're ya doin'?" I got it from some guy I worked with a couple years ago, don't know where it's from but I suspect from some beer commercial on TV.
 

My grandparents have funny expressions, like "Jeepers Crow."
 

I say sketi instead of cursing, and oh goodness when someone reminds me of something Ive forgotten to do-picked to last one up from the philosophy teacher
 

woot woot!
 

Most of my slang words are things my roommate and I created. I can't think of any right now, though.
 

My favorite: Spoot. (spoot)
interj. Slang
Used to express frustration, annoyance, or disappointment.

Ten points to anyone who can guess where I got it from.

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a lot of my friends have picked up Bloody hell-no, we're not english, so this is a bit odd down here.

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Yeah, I know. They got it from me.

Really.

Tear tear (when sad)

I want what he/she is smoking

Yawl
 

Not spoken to a cow, it has a similar meaning to "Goodness gracious!"

"Balls!"

I've met two people who used this as their most common general expletive. I met them about eight years apart on different sides of the country, and they have never met. I think they are both cool.

"Sick!"

I actually spent time around a bunch of X-treme sports guys on my mission who used this word constantly to mean something of a blend of "Cool" and "Daring" or "Dangerous".
 

I'm trying to decide if that's cool or stupid.
 

Most of my other slag phrases violate this site's terms of membership.
 

Another English favourite is "bollocks" - meaning "balls" and used in the same way.
 

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I think "giving brain" sounds like an act only possible to dead bodies, and that's nowhere I'd like to go ...

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http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02282002.html

amira: Eh, I only ever use "bollocks" in place of "bullshit" (e.g. "That's just a laod of bollocks!"). Sometimes also in the form "bollocksed up".

I'm not a good enough wannabe Englishman. Oh, bollocks.

ae
 

It's from the Nickelodeon cartoon The Angry Beavers, one of the only cartoons worth watching in the past five years.
 

I like "squick" and "squicky" which I picked up online. I also say "cool beans". I got it from an AIM buddy in Orlando.

My sister has been under pressure to curtail her cursing. Like me, she only tends to curse in times of sudden physical distress, but she curses much more like my dad. He was an Army seargent. A window fell on her hand as she was closing it, the other day. She managed to stop herself from actually cursing. It went something like this:

"Son of a... Mother... Duck."

Now her daughters tease her about the naughty duckling that lives in their house and always gets yelled at.

She used to do this thing in an east Indian sort of accent, "Holy hell-damn, Batman!"