spamguy » YTMND http://blog.spamguy.org Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:42:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 spamguy Classix #5: Neo-Maxi-Zoom-Dweebie http://blog.spamguy.org/2007/12/17/spamguy-classix-5-neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie/ http://blog.spamguy.org/2007/12/17/spamguy-classix-5-neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:57:29 +0000 spamguy http://blog.spamguy.org/2007/12/17/spamguy-classix-5-neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie/ This one’s from December 9th, 2006.

Here I am talking about John Hughes again. Somewhere between obscurity and popularity lies an awkward class of catch phrase, one in which people who we’d expect not to use it do, and those who should, don’t. Example: somewhere deep in the dialogue of The Breakfast Club lies this conversation:

BENDER: Dork…
BRIAN: Yeah?
BENDER: You are a parent’s wet dream, okay?
BRIAN: Well that’s a problem!
BENDER: Look, I can see you getting all bunged up for them making you wear these kinda clothes. But face it, you’re a Neo-Maxi-Zoom-Dweebie!

Somehow the phrase Neo-Maxi-Zoom-Dweebie, expanding upon boring ol’ dweeb with strange bedfellow prefices, caught hold on the public. Or at least, on a couple people. It has an Urban Dictionary definition. It’s been used in WWF threats (!). 728 other pages exist using the term, excluding the previous two, and soon to be this blog post. ((2007 note: Now 1,790 pages, with the original Blog-City post ranking #4.)) That’s about it. But it’s enough to convince me that if pro wrestlers quote a John Hughes film, we have a catch phrase on our hands.

Now WTF is a clamhead?

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