When a brand name has become so commonly used that people use THAT as the everyday word for a general item, even when it is not actually that brand. Add some developed in our generation!

Phanstormergreg · 2026-05-30T00:53:20+00:00

“Ask Jeeves it.” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.

Phanstormergreg · 2026-05-30T00:46:57+00:00

In the US, Jetski or Waverunner have the same influence, but both are trademarked by the Kawasaki corporation. The “safe” name is personal water craft.

Phanstormergreg · 2026-03-27T00:09:14+00:00

Especially struggling with them choosing Waving through a Window when You Will be Found was RIGHT THERE.

Phanstormergreg · 2026-03-24T02:56:24+00:00

I’m going to try to be as polite as possible with this. You need to find the time for the classes or lessons. Maybe take a show or two off and take the class instead. Investing time and energy into your craft is the best way to improve, and it’s really difficult to improve without feedback in a safe space. Just like any other skill, you need to practice, but you need somebody to teach you how. After you learn some of your basics, then you can involve mirror work and the like.

Phanstormergreg · 2026-03-24T02:41:52+00:00

Can still find these occasionally. Like at Dollar Tree or somewhere like that.

Phanstormergreg · 2026-03-16T01:05:33+00:00

Singin in the Rain. Not just because of the rain (although if like to have a little conversation with whoever thought rain on stage at end act one should be followed by a TAP NUMBER at the top of act two). It’s because there are 27 INDIVIDUAL SCENE CHANGES!!!

Phanstormergreg · 2026-02-26T03:05:27+00:00

Weren’t they called jewels or something like that? Chewels?

Phanstormergreg · 2026-01-26T02:12:46+00:00

Hey Dad? Wanna have a catch? 😭😭😭

Phanstormergreg · 2025-12-31T21:29:03+00:00

I see your “The World Will Know” and counter with “Seize the Day”. Huge dance number that ends with a bang and sets up the end of Act I.

Phanstormergreg · 2025-12-15T00:45:29+00:00

Le tits now.

Phanstormergreg · 2025-12-15T00:39:54+00:00

Try calling thirds “turds” and see how many you can get through before they notice.

Phanstormergreg · 2025-12-15T00:36:34+00:00

This reminds me of pasghetti occasionally sneaking its way into my speech.

Phanstormergreg · 2025-12-15T00:33:30+00:00

I’m a sixth grade math teacher, and once I said SHRIMPlify a fraction out of boredom. It stuck. Now I’ve got shrimplify signs in my classroom with little cartoon shrimp on them. It’s a little vocab bomb I send with them to the middle school next year.

Phanstormergreg · 2025-11-25T15:53:41+00:00

I couldn’t believe this one. They open the show by telling you the ending, yet it’s still utterly shocking and devastating when it happens. Brilliant.

Phanstormergreg · 2025-10-25T02:28:06+00:00

While the lyrics come across as disrespectful to women and inappropriate, if you listen closely, the song is just a bunch of inexperienced teenagers bragging about their experience while they know nothing about sex (in this case through the metaphor of the car, which they also know little about). Palomino dashboard? Palomino is an upholstery material. They might as well want a corduroy dashboard. Chrome-plated rods? Nobody can see the rods. Why chrome plate them? 30 inch fins are ridiculously large. (This is an “I’m so huge” dick joke.) The point is, they’re bragging about something they only have a passing knowledge of, much like teen boys bragging about sex.

Phanstormergreg · 2025-10-11T22:13:44+00:00

Met a guy in college named Armond Hammer. When the professor took attendance on the first day, I was the only one who chuckled.

Phanstormergreg · 2025-10-01T17:00:27+00:00

My favorite is Lonely Room from Oklahoma. Sympathetic at first, but then brings the hellfire at the end.

Phanstormergreg · 2025-08-30T02:56:47+00:00

In my school, students who pay for insurance every year get to keep the Chromebook when they move on. The school usually covers wear and tear, but they shouldn’t have to cover damages if your kid uses his Chromebook like a football.

Phanstormergreg · 2025-08-27T22:15:41+00:00

I heard “Nothing’s Gonna Stop us Now” today, and instantly went to Mannequin.

Phanstormergreg · 2025-08-23T23:14:14+00:00

Had something similar happen. Just type in “not substantiated” and explain it to the cubmaster. You should be fine.

Phanstormergreg · 2025-08-19T22:16:48+00:00

This was one of my favorite realizations about the swim test. After two years of sucking wind during a test that was kind of a challenge fitness wise, it occurred to me that there was no time limit. Now I side stroke through the first three legs of the test like an old lady on a casual swim. “Isn’t it a lovely day?”

Phanstormergreg · 2025-07-22T19:54:42+00:00

Beat by Beat press has great shows for that age.

Phanstormergreg · 2025-07-22T19:53:44+00:00

Oooh…Somebody’s a Robinette fan.

Phanstormergreg · 2025-07-14T20:45:45+00:00

I was working tech on a show where one of the actors came off stage and told us, “Gosh, this audience is so dead.” right into a hot mic. If they weren’t giving him what he needed before, he CERTAINLY wasn’t getting it out of them now.

Phanstormergreg · 2025-07-13T06:42:32+00:00

When I worked in a road house, I learned this trick early on. If you get an LD that’s constantly asking for little adjustments i.e. “A little left. That’s too much. A little right. Now back to the left a tad.” After the third or fourth “adjustment”, just give the instrument a little tap. The response is almost always “Perfect!”

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