Famous Shep Quotes

Submitted By	Quote
Jim Clavin	Excelsior, You Fathead!
Norm dePlume	Wear the right costume, and the part will play itself. (attributed to George Ade.)
Norm dePlume	Mess kit repair battalion, handle platoon.
Norm dePlume	6SJ7GT
Mike Sylvester	Remember kid to keep your knees loose and above all, low profile!
Imago	I'm this kid, see ...
Brian Pearson	If Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, then Northwest Indiana is it's broad rear end!
Brian Pearson	The White Sox were so bad when I was a kid that I can remember sitting at the kitchen table and seeing my Old Man reading the sports page. On the front I vividly remember seeing in big block letters...WHITE SOX's APPLING HITS 450 FT....FOUL BALL!
Brian Pearson	Bolivia Exports Tin!
Gene Bergmann	Night People Trivia Straws in the wind Creeping meatballism [common American defect] Excelsior! [battle cry] Excelsior, you fat-head! [friendly battle cry] Seltzer bottle [response to battle cry] In hoc agricola conc [ersatz Latin silliness] We're living in par-less times Hurl an invective [a mildly hostile voice in the night] I will award the brass figlagee with bronze oak-leaf palm [the silly sound of "figlagee" derides the whole idea of awarding medals for supposed achievements—usually, for Shep, when he asks for the answer to a piece of trivia.] I will award the brass figlagee with aluminum palm [less commonly used form; possibly more prestigious, possibly less] Keep your knees loose [defensive maneuvering] Hang loose Hold it in abeyance I winkle [he wonders what game his aunt had been playing when she'd say it, and what the significance was of the funny-sounding phrase] Slob art [majority of American culture items] Glop [term for pretentiously overwrought ideas, prose, and music] Time, tide, and the affairs of men A vague, fugitive notion Just walking around, scratching Still walking around [says several times on the Alan Colmes 1998 show, when asked how he is doing] Hit the money button [here come the recorded commercials!] Hit the whoopee button Fistfight [he says it as though it represents the primary brutishness within us] New York is a summer fistfight Fellow sufferers I suspect… You know…. [common monologue filler, often used to nudge his engineer into increased participation by directing a comment or question to him. This also helps promote the feeling of his listeners that Shep is speaking not to an abstraction, but to real, live people whose minds are engaged with his.] As a matter of fact…. [maybe fact, maybe not] It's true! I'm not exaggerating! [often said when inventing or exaggerating] I'll never forget…. [total fabrication may follow] Effluvia Flick lives! 6SJ7 [whenever he needs a code designation for anything] Take umbrage Feckless [as in "I was a feckless youth"] Without feck Festered [as in, "I festered as a youth"] Razzmatazz All that jazz Gallimaufry [a W. C. Fields word] Ahhhh! [sneaked in at some unknown date at the end of the "Bahn Frei" theme]
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