Expressions you use in everyday conversation... that come from prog lyrics

[ThomasKDye]

I wondered if this had happened to anyone else. I have some other examples, but my main one, the one I find the funniest, is "God's gray Earth" from Frank Zappa's "Muffin Man." For some reason I found that expression hilarious (and I'm honestly not easily amused) and I just started using it all the time. "What on God's gray Earth is going on?"

Now watch people tell me it's "Great Earth" but I've listened to it several times and I swear it's "gray."

[zombywoof]

I wondered if this had happened to anyone else. I have some other examples, but my main one, the one I find the funniest, is "God's gray Earth" from Frank Zappa's "Muffin Man." For some reason I found that expression hilarious (and I'm honestly not easily amused) and I just started using it all the time. "What on God's gray Earth is going on?"

Now watch people tell me it's "Great Earth" but I've listened to it several times and I swear it's "gray."

From Wiki Jawaka:

The Muffin Man is seated at the table
In the laboratory of the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen . . .
Reaching for an oversized chrome spoon
He gathers an intimate quantity of dried muffin remnants
And, brushing his scapular aside,
Proceeds to dump these inside of his shirt . . .
He turns to us and speaks:
"Some people like cupcakes better. I, for one,
Care LESS for them!"
Arrogantly twisting the sterile canvas snoot of a fully charged icing-anointment utensil,
He poots forth a quarter-ounce green rosetta
Near . . .
(Let's try that again . . . )
He poots forth a quarter-ounce green rosetta
Near the summit of a dense-but-radiant muffin of his own design
Later he says:
"Some people . . . some people like cupcakes exclusively,
While I myself say there is naught, nor ought there be,
Nothing so exalted on the face of God's grey earth
As that Prince of Foods . . . The Muffin!"


It's a great one, I use it all of the time, too!

[fictionmusic]

oh yah...I work "Float Your Climb" into pretty well any conversation I am in. Sometimes it's in a "whatever floats your boat" way, sometimes it's in a "do you own thing way". Either way it comes out sounding cool and not at all dorky.

[zombywoof]

"Someone's had too much to think!" - from Beefheart's Ashtray Heart...

[GuitarGeek]

Not really "prog" (whatever that is), but the line "Close enough for rock n roll" is one I lifted from the Nazareth song Telegram, when something's not perfect but "It'll do".

[Dana5140]

I go around saying "hamatai" to people but they just stare at me...

[Yves]

Every day "I eat at Chez Nous". Funny thing is though, love still hasn't found a way.

[A. Scherze]

Sometimes, when someone asks me, "How's it going?", I reply, "I am resplendent in divergence."

[Scott Bails]

Every day "I eat at Chez Nous". Funny thing is though, love still hasn't found a way.

I was in college when that song came out, and we had an on-campus cafe that was called "Chez Nous," so we used to use that all the time.



Good times...

[walt]

I was striking up a conversation with a pretty lady on the F train recently,and said to her...

"Has the dawn ever seen your eyes
Have the days made you so unwise
Realize,you are"

For some strange reason, she sprayed me with Mace and strode to the other side of the car.

Women!!....

[Yves]

I once heard a florist say: "A flower?". I knew right away she had to be a progger.

[rcarlberg]

Every day, at lunch time, "Let's eat again, real soon..."

[Don Arnold]

I once heard a florist say: "A flower?". I knew right away she had to be a progger.

No where's that "like" button

[Cats On Glue]

"Someone's had too much to think!" - from Beefheart's Ashtray Heart...

i've used that one myself

[fictionmusic]

One day my ex-wife asked me if I thought she had lost weight. I replied "nope...total mass retain".

[Magic Mountain]

"I repeat myself when under stress...I repeat myself when under stress...I repeat myself when under stress"

[zombywoof]

"Put the spice in your rice"

[zombywoof]

One day my ex-wife asked me if I thought she had lost weight. I replied "nope...total mass retain".

Zing!

[Reid]

I've thought about saying "maybe you should stay with your mama" to a few people, but it's just too mean.

[Yves]

I've thought about saying "maybe you should stay with your mama" to a few people, but it's just too mean.

If you were talking to proggers, they proabably already were!

[Calabasas_Trafalgar]

"Haven't got a clue" - Beatles/Hey Bulldog

[rcarlberg]

"I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello" on the phone when somebody's trying to get off the phone. It always brings a smile.

[walt]

I recall with joy the times my (ex)wife said to me"I love you, you big dummy".

[Dave (in MA)]

When I had to clean the gutters, there was nobody that would be able to hear me quote Still...You Turn Me On, so I had to get the ladder out of the garage myself.

[GuitarGeek]

Not quite, lyrics, but onstage patter: Jerusalem Boogie=supper time