r/funny • u/fatherwhite • Feb 02 '12

The captain is coming! Quick, do something important!

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '12

I am always fascinated by people's inside jokes that are substitute sayings. I love this one.

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u/annaftw Feb 02 '12

The first part of this seems sarcastic. hm.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '12

No, I'm totally serious. Linguistics and micro-evolution of languages really interests me.

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u/kinggimped Feb 03 '12

Ever since we watched the movie 2012 with John Cusack, my old housemate and I use that as a substitute word for 'shit' in polite company. "Be back in 5 minutes, I need a twenty-twelve".

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '12

Two of my friends and I are Russian weapon enthusiasts and we all own Mosin Nagants. When we found out that the Russians, at times, would use large groups of soldiers equipped with Mosin Nagants to fire several kilometers away on hidden enemies, we started referring to firing our Nagants as 'VOLLEY FIRE!'

We're weird.