Calling Shenanigans

[LordNoob]

LOL On the ultimate figher 5, Gabe just said "I'm calling shenanigans" on another fighters street fighting stories.

Wow, the influence of the internet.

 

[Pacfanweb]

You think shenanigans started on the internet?

 

[FoBoT]

shens

 

[Mojoed]

Heh, I thought of ATOT too when I heard him say that.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: LordNoob
LOL On the ultimate figher 5, Gabe just said "I'm calling shenanigans" on another fighters street fighting stories.

Wow, the influence of the internet.

Your username rings true if you think that term started on the internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenanigans

 

[waggy]

i remember hearing shenanigans in elemantry school. far before the internet was popular.

 

[imported_weadjust]

Al Gore was using the word shenanigans for many years before he invented the internet.

 

[Rogodin2]

Poncho used to make shenanigans in Plato.

Rogo

 

[npoe1]

Originally posted by: weadjust
Al Gore was using the word shenanigans for many years before he invented the internet.

I remember those days. Ahhhh, I miss them.

 

[natto fire]

Wow, to be young again...

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shenanigans

[Origin: 1850?55, Americanism; of obscure orig.]

 

[uhohs]

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
You think shenanigans started on the internet?

his name is LordNoob

 

[LordNoob]

The word "shenanigans" has certainly been around for a long time, no doubt. However, I had never heard the phrase "calling shenanigans" until ATOT, a few years ago.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

I first heard it on South Park on the carnival episode.

 

[kef7]

How about the great use of the word in Super Troopers?

Captain O'Hagan: I swear to God I'm going to pistol whip the next guy who says, " Shenanigans."

Mac: Hey Farva what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy ****** on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?

Farva: You mean Shenanigans?

 

[Roguestar]

Anyone seen Super Troopers?

Edit: damn, beaten to it!

 

[DivideBYZero]

Ultimate Fighter. LMAO.

 

[gwrober]

Originally posted by: kef7
How about the great use of the word in Super Troopers?

Captain O'Hagan: I swear to God I'm going to pistol whip the next guy who says, " Shenanigans."

Mac: Hey Farva what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy ****** on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?

Farva: You mean Shenanigans?

I love that movie...."It's for a cop!"

 

[Colt45]

*shakes head in disbelief*

 

[Iron Woode]

OMGWTFBBQWATERMELON

 

[torpid]

This surely proves that God exists? There's no other explanation - the odds of this happening are even more remote than monkeys typing shakespeare.

 

[Farang]

O'Hagen: I just got off the phone with Tom McCardle From the budget committee. This thing with Farva screwed our pooch.

Thorny: What? They can't lump us in with that ******' Martian.

O'Hagen: We're all in the same boat, fellas.

Mac: But our shenanigans are cheeky and fun.

Thorny: Yeah, his shenanigans are cruel and tragic.

Foster: Which wouldn't make them shenanigans, at all, really.

Mac: (Irish voice) Evil shenanigans!

O'Hagen: I swear to God, I'll pistol whip the next guy that says 'shenanigans!'

Mac: Hey Farva, what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy sh1t on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?

Farva: You mean Shenanigans?

Mac, Foster and Thorny: Oh, no! (Laughing) (Mac hands O'Hagen his gun.)

Farva: You're talking about Shenanigans, right?

 

[ryan256]

Originally posted by: LordNoob
LOL On the ultimate figher 5, Gabe just said "I'm calling shenanigans" on another fighters street fighting stories.

Wow, the influence of the internet.

Now if he'd said "I'm calling shens." That might have been internet influenced.

 

[LordNoob]

Originally posted by: ryan256

Originally posted by: LordNoob
LOL On the ultimate figher 5, Gabe just said "I'm calling shenanigans" on another fighters street fighting stories.

Wow, the influence of the internet.

Now if he'd said "I'm calling shens." That might have been internet influenced.

LOL good point. Anyone ever hear anyone say out loud, "I'm calling shens"?

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: LordNoob
The word "shenanigans" has certainly been around for a long time, no doubt. However, I had never heard the phrase "calling shenanigans" until ATOT, a few years ago.

Same experience. However, I wasn't sure whether the particular way it was used was just a regional thing that had since spilled into regular internet slang or that this particular usage was creating on the intrawebs.