h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"Feng shui debugging" (1999) is making a program work by just moving various lines of code around.

Feng Shui... that leads conveniently into the phrases generated by our involvement in the ActionMovieRolePlayingGame! of that name (no, not a game to see who can move the furniture around the fastest.)
Whenever a fight scene is about to begin, you have to 'roll initiative.' Hence, in real life, before something starts, everyone strikes a pose and shouts, "It's an initiative type situation!"

Here's another of my common sayings. I was reminded of it last night, when my girlfriend seemed overly pleased with herself for something completely ordinary: "You amaze you."

Also, ten to ten is cowboy time. Why? something to do with a theme song that goes "ten to ten ten to ten ten to ten ten", might have been the Lone Ranger.

"Bordigals" is a good replacemnet for swearing, it has a good sweary feel about it without it actually meaning anything, as far as I know anyway. No doubt one day some one will tell me it actually means something far worse than swearing.

For non-swearing with a frilly, Carry-On feel to it, exclaim "Oh, pantygirdles."

At the time that I was trying to return a faulty cassette player to a store which didn't want to give my money back, 'Mostly Harmless' came out - I'm sure this was the inspiration behind my friend telling me, "Don't take any grapefruit" and me reporting on my return (with credit, not a refund) "I didn't take any grapefruit but I think I took a few grapes."

Tampons are "twiddles" because in certain company people don't want to hear the real word and you have to protect their delicacies.

In a debate on where the borderline between fetish and perversion falls, we agreed to compromise on "pretish".

I'm sure I'll think of more. It will give me something to do at work.

Kochanski

One of my online friends invented the term 'googling' for using a web search engine.

If someone's being annoyingly dim, they are a goonlucket.
A useful tool which you can't think of the name for is a dule-tapper.
When you're bleeding sporadically, the noise it would make if it made one is 'pring'.
When something is really disgusting and horrible, you go nang.

This isn't really a 'personal' coinage but it's coinage and it's about coins. And as one of the few Canadians here-about, and seeing names in this thread I'm sure I haven't told this story to before:

When inflation made it necessary to do away with paper one dollar bills in Canada a few years back, the new coin featured a Loon on one side and was immediately called a Loonie.

Then a few years later, when we did away with $2 bills the new $2 coin had to be called a Toonie - even though it has a polar bear on it.

peace
~jwf~

When the toonie was first introduced I did hear it called a moonie sometimes. This is because it had the Queen on the front and a bear back side.

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::: cracks knuckles ::: my friends and I tent to make up words frequently, I can take credit for most of the alternate swear words, and the rules for "gink."
The one that got me sent here:
"Spiffitasticated" I like suffixes...
Yoink- To be said for effect when stealing someting, or to steal something.
"I'm gonna go yoink that pen."
Gink/Gank- the formal past tense of yoink, may be used instead of yoinked.
"Dude, you just ginked my pen!"
Alternate swear words: (most sound like the word they come from)
Fork, Ace, Birch, Axle (a-hole), dern, spork (fork, only more so), devil math (really hard pointless math problems, an example sentence that I shouted out in the middle of a test was "This dern devil math was made up by a son of a birch!), and Dirty Apes, which really has no basis in reality. There are many more, I just gotta think of them.

We use 'yoink' around here with that same meaning... I think it's a reference to 'The Simpsons'. On the show, whenever someone takes something from someone, they say 'yoink'.

That's prolly it...

Yoink would be a nice named for that unnamed wolf puppy.
Take it from an expert who's been known to yoink the odd steak or weenie from the table when nobody's looking.

How-oooooo!

Nasty ways of being woken up:
Cold-penced; to have a frozen penny placed on your face.
Spoon-thraped; to be beaten with a big serving spoon.

Yoink... that's great!! ::: goes off to change his prefs :::

"Misled", pronounced "my-zuhld". This is just a mistaken reading of the word "misled", but it has a slightly different meaning, suggesting intent, as in "The innocent young girl was misled by dashing stranger."

Also "Serendippity-do", which is finding a jar of hair gel you didn't know you had.

I've used that pronunciation of misled from time to time... and I know I experienced serendippity-do like last week... I thought I was out of gel, but found some in my room... amazing I could find *anything* in there!

"P*****g like a baguette" for when it's raining heavily (that's more or less all the time in Ireland). Can't remember how that one started though (suggestions on the origins welcome )

~Fluffy~

Hmm... that sounds cool... perhaps I should use it...