Nerd Pride Radio

Do you have alternate names for everyday items? For example, Paul and I call funnels "Big-to-smallinators".

Hmmm. I know we do. Kind of related: when you google something, that's called "Searching it up." Closing a program on a computer is "Xing it out."

All sodas are called cokes (but that's cause I'm from Texas).

Same.

I often call the palette/roof of mouth my moof, but by often I mean when it comes up in conversation, like once a year.

My wife and I used to have funny misspellings/mispronunciations for everything that went on our shopping list on the fridge. I'm sure it started as an honest mistake and then both of us just ran with it. We stopped doing it when Jacob started learning to talk. As funny as it was to us, we just imagined him learning gross mispronunciations for everything in the grocery store.

I wish I could remember any of those now. It's been over 20 years. Like, I'm sure we did "pasketti", but I honestly don't remember for sure. It was dumb stuff like that.

We call McDonald's Sausage McMuffin sandwiches "Muzzy Burgers." It started because we make our own version at home using Johnsonville bratwurst patties, which have a nice, spicy taste to them. And "bratwurst" is a nice German-sounding word. When the kids were young, we had some of the Muzzy videotapes to help them learn some German. So rather than calling them bratwurst muffins, we started calling them "Muzzy burgers" instead, to help get the kids to eat them. And it's just been the family term for them ever since.

Also on the food front, it's a good thing my parents taught us how to order eggs "over easy." Otherwise, the first time I tried to order them at a restaurant, I would have tried to order "dippy eggs," since that's what they always called them at home.

I'm not sure this counts, but we had an epidemic of our kids (and one of the parents) saying "that's what she said," which was obnoxious but lead to some inappropriate incidents around other families. So we banned the phrase from ever being used, which led to the kids substituting a hard blink between each other instead of saying it.

So Kid 1 will fail at something on a videogame and say, "Damn. That was hard." Behind his back, Kids 2 and 3 will exchange a hard blink and laugh.

Yup, we said "Let's have Poor Man's" frequently.

If a specific one of the moms cooked that well-done steak? You're damn right. Because it would be fucking shoe leather. Also...well-done is disgusting.

While I'm not as bad as I was previously, my childhood pretty much consisted of a variation on Frank's Red Hot commercials: "Ketchup. I put that shit on everything. Because Hot Sauce is nasty."

Floss picks are called floss monkeys.

I think they started saying it because that's what I call em.

Exactly. Floss Monkeys is the perfect name for them because they're like little super Nimble things that crawl around your teeth to get all the plaque off.

My kid sister used to talk about 'Flutterbies' regularly during .... I'd say during summer but it was always summer by comparison to here.

you have to picture it in a lilting, sing-song falling cadence, 3 sylables Flut-ter-byes