Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Telling Phrase 12: "That's What She Said"

This phrase is linked to one of the more inappropriate one line jokes that has been popular this past year. Typically, it is used as a sexual joke, but at Bible College, it became used for randomly non-sensible things such as, "Hey did you do the extra credit assignment?" "No, but that's what she said." As long as someone followed the statement with a prolonged, "OHhhh!" then people would all feel awkward and try to think of how what they said could have been taken in a sexually inappropriate way. After a while, they would realize that the people saying "That's what she said" were merely playing a joke on them so that they would feel awkward. After I graduated, they made a rule against using the statement because of its "negative connotations." Students continued to say it anyway, and some were fined, others were "written-up" (kind of like getting a demerit). At least that's what she said.

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