i've been trying to figure out an appropriately stupid catch phrase.
Several times in the past week or so (when forcibly reminding myself that "i am old"), i've found myself referring to various bits of technology in the far distant past. Well, nearly ten years ago which by internet time puts it somewhere in the Pre-Mesozoic era. Being the ironic anti-hipster that i am, i've found myself looking for an appropriately stupid phrase to use much like the 1920's cats used things like "the bees knees" or the "cat's pajamas".
(e.g. "Last time i worked on Windows Internals, Win32 was the bees knees.")
Still, using those sorts of antiquated terms struck me as being needlessly tired. Yes, it's old, but there's no "umph" to it. So i changed it to "the Hammer's Pants". This, i figured, would at least resonate with the kids these days and still sound appropriately stupid as the phrases from a bygone era. Needless to say, it stuck for me, and now i'm looking for various other like phrases that one can use to properly describe those relatively recent bygone days of yore.
- the Burners-Lee's Browser (Hmm… doesn't really trip off the tongue)
- the Bill's Spill (Political and vaguely suggestive, but potentially difficult for folks to remember unless i'm wearing a blue dress)
- the Senator's Stance (Ok, that's a bit more alliterative, but i'm not really sure it works outside of airport men's rooms.)
- 0001 0111-Skidoo! (No… just… no.)
Got any suggestions?
I always referred to them as "hammer pants" with no possessive form. I just hope he doesn't take offense to your usage of his fashion sense as an idiom for the past, otherwise I'll have to be all "please hammer don't hurt 'em!"
I think that's my new fantasy sports team name.
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I hope "the Hammer's Pants" eventually morphs into a future Ancient American Proverb, uttered sagely by the grey-beards of that time: "You can't touch the Hammer's pants".