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Originally Posted by justindew
What are the chances that "The Green Monkey" becomes a verb? Example:
"I paid $20,000 for this used car, and it hasn't run properly since I bought it. I got The-Green-Monkied by the seller."
I hope he wins by 10 on Saturday.
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Originally Posted by Thunder Gulch
That's funny. Think I'll get that started amongst my circle.
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Weird, I was going to say "slim to none, but closer to none."
However, if you
do choose to use it, you'll need to keep everything in perspective. I'll add a little addendum to Justin's thought.
You can't just say that the $20K car got you green-monkied just because it doesn't work. You can only use that verb if you paid $20K for the car, knowing full well that it was only worth about $2-3K, but decided you were willing to pay about 10x what it was worth just because your arch enemy wanted it too.
So it's not really the car's fault for being a piece of crap when valued at $20K, it really is that you yourself caused the whole green-monkeying of the situation by paying some 8-10x what the car was really worth in the first place.
I think that "wow that was phucking stupid" is an already existing, and perfectly suitable expression for those situations.