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Darth Funjamin
2023-01-31 1:07:46 PM  
I'm pretty sure "cowabunga" was out there before The Simpsons. Otherwise, a very cromulent list.
 
skyotter
2023-01-31 1:08:28 PM  
List is missing knifey-spoony.
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 1:11:55 PM  

skyotter: List is missing knifey-spoony.


I see you've played Simpsetymology before.
 
time is tight
2023-01-31 1:17:11 PM  
kwyjibo
 
skybird659 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 1:20:36 PM  

Darth Funjamin: I'm pretty sure "cowabunga" was out there before The Simpsons. Otherwise, a very cromulent list.


Wasn't Snoopy saying 'cowabunga' from California surfers heading out into the surf in the 60's?
 
Exile On Beale Street [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 1:21:50 PM  
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Unsung_Hero
2023-01-31 1:27:26 PM  
I'll give them 'flanderize' and 'crisitunity'.  Those are useful additions to the language.  The rest - yes, even including 'cromulent' - are just silly.
 
xrayspx [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 1:39:07 PM  
Foilage.

This list is pretty sparse, and I haven't seen any Simpsons episodes produced after about 2002 or so.
 
meanmutton
2023-01-31 1:44:09 PM  

Darth Funjamin: I'm pretty sure "cowabunga" was out there before The Simpsons. Otherwise, a very cromulent list.


If you click on it, it definitely says it predates The Simpsons. So does "meh", which comes from Yiddish.
 
whidbey
2023-01-31 1:46:49 PM  

skybird659: Darth Funjamin: I'm pretty sure "cowabunga" was out there before The Simpsons. Otherwise, a very cromulent list.

Wasn't Snoopy saying 'cowabunga' from California surfers heading out into the surf in the 60's?


Yes. Before he invaded Pearl Harbor.
 
Rapmaster2000
2023-01-31 1:47:06 PM  
"I have a rock that keeps tigers away."

I see that a lot.
 
mufhugger
2023-01-31 1:47:34 PM  
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Random Celebrity Insult Generator [BareFark]
2023-01-31 1:52:02 PM  

meanmutton: Darth Funjamin: I'm pretty sure "cowabunga" was out there before The Simpsons. Otherwise, a very cromulent list.

If you click on it, it definitely says it predates The Simpsons. So does "meh", which comes from Yiddish.

English terms derived from and/or related to the animated television series


/list needs more 'diddly' to be scrumdiddlyumtious
 
Ivo Shandor [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 1:53:33 PM  

Exile On Beale Street: [piximus.net image 579x572]


https://www.sciencealert.com/homer-simpson-predicted-the-mass-of-the-higgs-boson-14-years-before-cern - despite the headline, it wasn't a very good prediction. 775 GeV vs. the actual 125 GeV. Since his formula is based on fundamental physical constants that's way outside any error bars.
 
nick_papagiorgio
2023-01-31 1:57:39 PM  
I'll die before I surrender, Tim. Who's Tim? He's embiggens us.
 
Jeebus Saves
2023-01-31 2:04:09 PM  
Car hole
Chazwozzer
Crap factory
 
phimuskapsi [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 2:10:36 PM  

skybird659: cowabunga


It's from Howdy Doody originally.
 
nick_papagiorgio
2023-01-31 2:11:03 PM  
Are you talking to me? No, my sons name is also Bort...
 
Micanope
2023-01-31 2:12:49 PM  
I thought cromulent was News Radio.
 
Exile On Beale Street [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 2:15:48 PM  

Micanope: I thought cromulent was News Radio.


It was a writer's room contest.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-cromulent-mean
 
phimuskapsi [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 2:15:49 PM  

Ivo Shandor: Exile On Beale Street: [piximus.net image 579x572]

https://www.sciencealert.com/homer-simpson-predicted-the-mass-of-the-higgs-boson-14-years-before-cern - despite the headline, it wasn't a very good prediction. 775 GeV vs. the actual 125 GeV. Since his formula is based on fundamental physical constants that's way outside any error bars.


The difference is one significant digit.

0.00000000200J = 125 GeV
0.^A24J = 775 GeV

The amount of energy that differs by is infinitesimally small.
 
ElwoodCuse
2023-01-31 2:16:18 PM  

nick_papagiorgio: Are you talking to me? No, my sons name is also Bort...


cut my life into pieces

my son is also bort
 
Hunter Biden's Oversized Yogurt Slinger
2023-01-31 2:19:13 PM  
In before all the super cool people who are going to drop by to tell us the show sucks now, and they should know because they haven't watched it since season 10.
 
Gordon Bennett [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 2:22:59 PM  

Unsung_Hero: I'll give them 'flanderize' and 'crisitunity'.  Those are useful additions to the language.  The rest - yes, even including 'cromulent' - are just silly.


Don't have a cow, man.
 
phimuskapsi [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 2:26:03 PM  

phimuskapsi: 0.^A24J = 775 GeV


Not sure wtf Fark did to this number.
 
Ivo Shandor [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 2:45:51 PM  

phimuskapsi: phimuskapsi: 0.^A24J = 775 GeV

Not sure wtf Fark did to this number.


There's a filter which looks for binary-encoded ASCII characters.

And you can't say "close enough" by choosing units which make the numbers look really small. The prediction is off by a factor of 6. In absolute terms, 1 GeV is roughly equivalent to the mass of a hydrogen atom. The difference between 125 and 775 of them is significant.
 
French Rage [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 2:49:18 PM  
Where rootmarm?
 
kicker_conspiracy
2023-01-31 2:54:21 PM  
How is 'boo-urns' not among them? For shame, Wikipedia list.
 
RolandTGunner [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 2:58:03 PM  
No Tomacco?

Also I think Don Martin was using "Yoink" many years prior to the Simpsons.
 
skyotter
2023-01-31 3:08:57 PM  
Simpsons is where I first heard "yoink".

Twice, in fact, before ever hearing or seeing it anywhere else.
 
Lochsteppe
2023-01-31 3:28:37 PM  

Exile On Beale Street: Micanope: I thought cromulent was News Radio.

It was a writer's room contest.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-cromulent-mean


I'd love to know what some of the other writer's room contests were. I'd always suspected that there were some jokes or phrases the writers included on a bet or something (e.g. try to work the phrase "golden showers" into an episode).
 
Ivo Shandor [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 3:30:21 PM  

Lochsteppe: Exile On Beale Street: Micanope: I thought cromulent was News Radio.

It was a writer's room contest.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-cromulent-mean

I'd love to know what some of the other writer's room contests were. I'd always suspected that there were some jokes or phrases the writers included on a bet or something (e.g. try to work the phrase "golden showers" into an episode).


Simpsons did it.
media.tenor.comView Full Size
 
Lochsteppe
2023-01-31 3:33:55 PM  

Ivo Shandor: Lochsteppe: Exile On Beale Street: Micanope: I thought cromulent was News Radio.

It was a writer's room contest.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-cromulent-mean

I'd love to know what some of the other writer's room contests were. I'd always suspected that there were some jokes or phrases the writers included on a bet or something (e.g. try to work the phrase "golden showers" into an episode).

Simpsons did it.
[media.tenor.com image 480x362] [View Full Size image _x_]


Yes, that's the episode I was talking about. :P
 
Windswept and Interesting
2023-01-31 3:34:25 PM  
"Kowabunga" was around a long time before the Simpsons, it was surfer slang. And it's been spelled wrong for all these years.
 
nick_papagiorgio
2023-01-31 3:46:08 PM  
What's in it? 2-4 desoxyprophenuramine

Natures goodness.
 
NewWorldDan
2023-01-31 3:46:29 PM  

Unsung_Hero: I'll give them 'flanderize' and 'crisitunity'.  Those are useful additions to the language.  The rest - yes, even including 'cromulent' - are just silly.


I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to see you experience such pericombobulation.
 
Stantz
2023-01-31 4:25:19 PM  
List fails without Malonga Gilderchuck
 
ZMugg [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 5:03:13 PM  

NewWorldDan: Unsung_Hero: I'll give them 'flanderize' and 'crisitunity'.  Those are useful additions to the language.  The rest - yes, even including 'cromulent' - are just silly.

I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to see you experience such pericombobulation.


You either need a tissue or smell toast.
 
idsfa
2023-01-31 5:49:12 PM  

Micanope: I thought cromulent was News Radio.


Nope.  You're thinking of "Gaziza"

Newsradio - Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor DAAAMN!!!
Youtube 3JpwjnMFlJI
 
Billy Liar
2023-01-31 9:14:02 PM  
Re "D'oh!"

James Henderson Finlayson (27 August 1887 - 9 October 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache,[1] Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is known for his squinting, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, and characteristic expression "d'ooooooh", and as the best remembered comic foil of Laurel and Hardy.

IIRC, Dan Castellaneta acknowledged that he was heavily influenced by Finlayson's reaction.
 
Plaster Lion
2023-01-31 11:27:00 PM  

Windswept and Interesting: "Kowabunga" was around a long time before the Simpsons, it was surfer slang. And it's been spelled wrong for all these years.


How can I tell you didn't click the link?
 
Unsung_Hero
2023-01-31 11:31:54 PM  

Plaster Lion: Windswept and Interesting: "Kowabunga" was around a long time before the Simpsons, it was surfer slang. And it's been spelled wrong for all these years.

How can I tell you didn't click the link?


We're on Fark so it's a safe assumption regardless?
 
KWess
2023-02-01 2:51:06 AM  
Flanders?

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I think it predates the Simpsons.
 
Bob Down
2023-02-01 6:41:04 AM  
Crap Factory is two words and probably my new alt.
 
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