NTMP 132: T-Rex Doodles

How to appease the flabby shower gods with this one weird trick

New-To-Me Phrases, February 9, 2025

Revanchist * Flabby shower gods * Skibidi Hitler Youth * T-Rex Bacon * Roof Doodles * Cyber-farting

Photo by Caleb Woods on Unsplash

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The Phrases, With Context

What a time to be an American, am I right? Are you taking care of yourself? Limiting the doomscrolling? Calling your senators and reps? Donating or giving care locally? Staring into the abyss only to see it staring right back, and . . . shrugging? Screaming in your car? Sharpening your guillotine? Making art?

All are valid responses.

The phrase-gathering will continue until morale improves.

But first: January poll results!

January 2025 favorite phrase poll results

Bum Farto comin’ in hot with the lead, with 55% of the vote. I am not mad at that result. Poundland came in second, with sucrose gravel a distant third. Thanks for voting, and look for the February poll at month-end.

And now for some phrases. Let’s get to it!

1. Revanchist

Let’s start out with a word from one of my many friends who are smarter than me.

While blogging about the current state of affairs in the U.S., my friend John wrote:

Every day the news is a barrage of revanchist, reactionary destruction.

Nice economy of words to give us an accurate take.

I’d never encountered the word revanchist before. I found this 2018 exploration of its use in politics from Columbia Journalism Review:

Both “revanche” and “revenge” come from the Middle French verb “revenchier,” “to revenge.” . . .

Why do we even need a word like that? After all, we have “vengeance,” “vengeful,” etc. But politics wants its own jargon. In the “Did You Know?” section of the “revanche” entry, M-W says “revanche” “developed its specific political application in the years following the Franco-German War (1870-71), which resulted in France losing the territory known as Alsace-Lorraine to Germany.”

I, an uncultured rube, am definitely not a war history nerd, so I can see why this one slipped by me.

2. Flabby shower gods

While entering a non-business expense into QuickBooks Self-Employed, the AI interpreted "baby shower gifts" as "flabby shower gods.”

Somebody start a band with this name immediately.

But sure, let’s have AI run everything, including via a nonviolent coup against our government agencies via unelected trolligarchs without security clearance. I’m sure it’ll work out well.

3. Skibidi Hitler Youth

Speaking of that constitutional crisis at the U.S. Treasury, we have this phrase, via my Hag pal Kathleen. Last week, news broke that teen and young-adult minions of Elon Musk had gained access—without security clearance or approval of Congress—to the U.S. Treasury. One of those individuals refers to himself as ::checks notes:: Big Balls.

Here’s part of the alt-text from this Bluesky post¹:

Okay, we’re looking at a skinny white boy with a haircut one can only describe as Skibidi Hitler Youth: completely shaved around the sides and back, with a curly broccoli poof the ipad kids wear so often.

As a fan of funny alt-text descriptions, I applaud this effort.

Also, I hadn’t seen the phrase iPad kids before. A twofer!

4. T-Rex Bacon

So I’m parked at the luxuriously-appointed, well-maintained cell phone lot at O’Hare, and—

I tried googling both this phrase and “T-Rex Bacon band,” and couldn’t find any context beyond Google trying to tell me I was searching for the band “T-Rex.” Maybe I need to start placing random phrase stickers around depressing parking lots and see who notices.

5. Roof Doodles

You’ve got to love the oo assonance with this one:

Newsweek published an “article” based on that tweet, for some reason. It reads a little AI-slop-ish, with the guy who took the photo saying “yeah, so, when I walk by this house, these dogs stand on the roof and bark at me.” You mean like what’s clearly shown in this tweet? Okay, then. Glad we got that extra context, Newsweek.

6. Cyber-farting

NTMP superfan Deborah sent this phrase via Instagram. After a Welsh woman sent her boyfriend’s ex multiple videos of herself farting via WhatsApp, she was convicted of harassment in the first-ever cyber-farting case.

I found some great headlines and mentions of this story from third-tier news sites, including:

• Woman in court for aggressively farting at her boyfriend’s ex (source) (I’m picturing the closed captioning description: “farts aggressively”)

• Woman, 25, admits sending ‘malicious fart selfies’ in first of its kind case (source)

• It stinks! Windy Welsh woman’s taunting toot tapes spark world's first cyber-farting case (source)

I think malicious fart selfies is also an epic phrase.

Maybe instead of calling our senators, we need to fart-call the White House during the limited weekday hours when they actually open their phone lines. I’m picturing aides putting multiple check marks beside the word ‘fart’ for their daily tally of call topics. Just a thought.

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That’s it for this week! Remember to keep making it weird and stay furiously curious.

1. I cannot bring myself to refer to posts on Bluesky as “skeets.” Give me time, I am sure I’ll surrender eventually.