Drinking unicorn giggles? is that some sort of attack on my character?

Last week, I posted about some odd words I tend to use that I just don’t hear used all that often, and felt the need to graciously clarify. As a follow-up, I decided that certain phrases needed alittle… uhh… illumination as well.

That said, here we go! again!!1:

for serious

“for serious” would seem to be an unneeded phrase. It means roughly the same thing as “for real”, but I would say with slightly more gumption, whatever gumption means. Basically, if you mean to say “for real” but what you’re supporting with your “for real” is way more worthy of something better or sillier than a simple “for real” then clearly, “for serious” is for you.

Usage:

A: “I’m really tired.”
B: “How much did you sleep last night”
A: “About 3 hours.”
B: “Dood, that’s not enough.”
A: “For serious.”

Origin: On the game I play much of, World of Warcraft, one of the strongest groups of players on the server I play is known as the Pretty Pink Pwnies. They have a banner for this website, this is how it looks:

“that’s like, free money”

Ahh, this is a good one. I use this phrase whenever I see some business idea or type of scheme that gives the owner/inventor large amounts of cash-money-what with little work or thought. A great example of this would be the _______ for Dummies books. You know, the yellow ones that cover every topic imaginable, an easy guide on the topic? Computers for Dummies, Cooking for Dummies, Sex for Dummies, Astrology for Dummies Catholicism for Dummies? You know what I’m talking about.

Well anyway, once a few of those books were successful, the guy that came up with that just has to sit around in his mansion, waiting for people to send him proposals for getting their particular topic licensed and published with the “Dummies” theme on it. Original guy gets licensing/royalties, and the writer gets $ from sale of the book. That’s like, free money.

Usage: dude, look RIGHT above this text, I just described it!

Origin: None known, just started saying it, whatev.

It’s like drinking unicorn giggles!

Finally, we get to the point of this post. This phrase you see above. Basically, this one is on probation if you will. I’m still test-driving it. So far the results have been somewhat disheartening (Ben said it made him uncomfortable, Heather said she doesn’t like it, it doesn’t make sense), but I will continue on.

One note though, Emmuh tried it out once, and everyone liked it when she said it. Maybe you have to have the skills/be a female to use it properly.

Usage: Whenever you want to point out, either sarcastically or sincerely, in an extreme way, how great something is. It must be said with heart. For serious.

Origin: This wonderful gaming cartoon strip introduced me to this phrase, in the following comic: linkzor

FL: This guy paints pandas (GIANT PANDAS, MIND YOU) on single hairs. You do anything cool like that?